Tag: Suzanne Spellen

Before 1898, Brooklyn was a wealthy, independent city with its own government, police and fire depar...

I’m a real life nephew of your Uncle Sam, Born on the Fourth of July. -- “Yankee Doodle Boy,â€...

Explorer Henry Hudson landed on Coney Island in 1609 and reported back to his Dutch employers that h...

From the humblest newsstand to a block-wide, six-story department store, the buildings on our commer...

A 19th century movement known as City Beautiful has had a lasting influence on Brooklyn and continue...

Imagine being old and no longer able to work, with no family and no wealth of any kind. In the late ...

One of our cultural icons is the self-made man or woman. We love to see stories of people who came f...

Historian, preservationist, and longtime Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen returned to Brownston...

The post-Civil War years were a period of great change in American society. For the first time, an e...

Thanksgiving was meant to be a day set aside for the giving of thanks for the harvest, the bounty of...