Closing Bell: Walking Tour Explores Clinton Hill’s History and Varied Architecture
Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen will lead a walking tour of Clinton Hill this weekend cove...
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Walkabout: Lane Bryant and the Riches of Expectation, Part 2
Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. In 1909, dressmaker Lena Bryant was working out of...
Closing Bell: Creative Time Remembers “Black Radical Brooklyn” in Crown Heights, Bed Stuy
Creative Time -- the arts organization that produced Kara Walker's Domino installation -- and...
Walkabout: Lane Bryant and the Riches of Expectation, Part 1
Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. Western society has long had a strange attitude to...
Closing Bell: Explore Coney Island Artifacts and History at Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery will host an exhibit next month celebrating the life of William F. Mangels, ...
Brooklyn Heights Cinema Moving to Dumbo
The building at 70 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights is in contract to be sold, and Brooklyn Heig...
Closing Bell: Tour the Former Sisters of Mercy Convent in Clinton Hill
The Brooklyn Historical Society is giving visitors a look inside the 150-year-old Sisters of Mer...
Past and Present: East New York’s Historic Howard House
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. Howard’s Woods was a farm tract established by William Howa...
Past and Present: The Clarence Walker Seamans Mansion
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. A look at Brooklyn, then a...
The Newsboy Governor, Now Buried in Calvary Cemetery
You never know what you might find at First Calvary Cemetery in Queens. Here lies Tammany, gazing...
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