Tag: history

The new museum building at the Weeksville Heritage Center is finished, and the official ribbon ...

Learn about the history and architecture of Sunset Park during a walking tour of the neighborhoo...

Soaring prices in Brooklyn for move-in-ready brownstones are attracting high-end flippers who renova...

Read Part 1 of this story. In the prosperous years following the Civil War, dry goods entrepreneurs...

Caples Jefferson Architects has designed a gorgeous new building for Weeksville Heritage Center,...

Read Part 2 of this story. The late 19th century was the Golden Age of the department store. In 184...

When the Mrs. and I first moved to Astoria, we found ourselves at the border. Not far from Woodsid...

Green-Wood Cemetery opened the mausoleums of some of its most famous and wealthy residents last ...

It has always been a truism throughout history that if you have money, life can be good. This doesnâ...

Read Part 1 of this story. By 1864, the detachable shirt collar and cuffs were making Troy, N.Y., o...