Tag: history

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

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

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 ...

Work appears to have started up again at the landmarked Susan Elkins house at 1375 Dean Street, the ...

I walk just about everywhere, and take a lot of photos of what I see. One of the things I look for...

The dead in Queens outnumber the living, thanks to the Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847-8. After a se...

What do you call someone from Queens? There are Staten Islanders, Brooklynites, Manhattanites. Th...

The entire reason that an independent municipality called Long Island City was created in the firs...

So... Welcome to Newtown Creek, and specifically, Maspeth. Maspeth was the first European settlem...