Tag: Historical

On Monday, Feb. 20 at 7:30, Bob Furman will speak on Brooklyn history at the Prospect Park YMCA, whi...

Forgotten NY just published a new series called "Meet Me At..." that looks at a bunch of older apar...

The Wall Street Journal reported last week on the growing tendency of renovators of historic homes t...

We took one of the little Brownstoners to the Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn last weekend for ...

While digging a grave for his recently departed pet iguana in the backyard of his Coffey Street apar...

We found this quotation in the Introduction to a book called The Baltimore Rowhouse: The two story h...

Christopher Gray, whose weekly architectural history columns in the Times are always a pleasure to ...

We were walking down Broome Street (around Wooster) when we noticed the iron work on this street-le...

Local mag Park Slope Reader has an article on Green-Wood Cemetary that contains a concise history o...

This photo by Bernice Abbott from the late 1930s is a reminder that slapdash poster advertising is ...