Tag: Suzanne Spellen

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2014 and has been updated. You can read the previous p...

From modest beginnings, the building we know today as Brooklyn Borough Hall is the result of years o...

A side project of the richest man in Brooklyn in the 19th century, the Morris Building Company devel...

Historian, preservationist, and longtime Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen penned enthralling ta...

When the Dutch and then the English established settlements and towns in Brooklyn in the late 1600s,...

When asked to list the important inventors in our history, we generally forget the people who came u...

By the beginning of the 1920s, it was clear to those interested in New York City's housing patterns ...

From the first time a caveman or woman drew pictures on the walls and brought some flowers into the ...

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€...