For Less Than $1 Million, You Can Own a Famous 18th-Century Brooklyn Farmhouse
Now's your chance to live in a bit of Brooklyn history. The historic Hicks-Platt House aka Van Si...
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Walkabout: “The Great Mistake” — How Brooklyn Lost Its Independence, Part 1
Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. Here's an updated look at the most important thing to h...
Empire Stores: From Cargo Warehouse to Ruin to Development Site, 1868 to Present
The austerely impressive Empire Stores along 53-83 Water Street reveals New York City's storied fo...
Walkabout: Stylish Englishman Steals From Brooklyn Bank — a Cautionary Tale From 1893
Bryce Arthur Whyte was as English as Queen Victoria. He had a plummy upper-crust sounding name. ...
Over a Century of the Manhattan Bridge Seen From Dumbo (Photos)
Since construction on the Manhattan Bridge began in 1901, the bridge's Brooklyn-side tower has be...
Walkabout: Rufus L. Perry and Son, Brooklyn Pioneers, Part 3
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. Rufus L. Perry, Jr. was one ...
Walkabout: Rufus L. Perry and Son, Brooklyn Pioneers, Part 2
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. During the latter part o...
Walkabout: The Architect, the Baseball Stadium, and a Really Bad Couple of Years, Part 4
In Part 1, we met architect Clarence R. Van Buskirk, mired in a corruption scandal in Part 2, bu...
A Visit to a Nearly Forgotten Colonnade Row in Williamsburg
In one of the oldest parts of Brooklyn are the remnants of a now mostly forgotten colonnade row --...
Walkabout: The Architect, the Baseball Stadium, and a Really Bad Couple of Years, Part 2
In Part 1, we met Clarence R. Van Buskirk – architect, engineer, preacher’s kid, and well-re...
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