Tag: Suzanne Spellen

It’s possible to live your entire life in Brooklyn and never own a car. Of course, public transpor...

Historian, preservationist, and longtime Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen penned a bevy of capt...

There was a time when Downtown Brooklyn’s shopping district had anything and everything one would ...

If you are a fan of the cinematic world of wealthy Gilded Age people on both sides of the Atlantic O...

Thanksgiving is now a national holiday that evokes tables loaded with food, autumnal colors, and fri...

The idea of a magnificent bridge to cross the East River and join Brooklyn and Manhattan was propose...

Home decoration was all the rage in the late 19th century. With the Industrial Revolution in England...

In the latter part of the 19th century, when ladies and gentlemen of the upper classes visited frien...

People have lived on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue almost as long as there has been an Atlantic Avenu...

Thanks to Charles Pratt, the wealthiest man in Brooklyn, Clinton Avenue became a Gold Coast of mansi...