Walkabout: All on the 4th of July
As all American kids learn in school, Independence Day celebrates July 4, 1776, when the 13Â col...
As all American kids learn in school, Independence Day celebrates July 4, 1776, when the 13Â col...
In Part 1, we met Clarence R. Van Buskirk – architect, engineer, preacher’s kid, and well-re...
Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. Some of Brooklyn’s greatest architectural tr...
The big white house on the corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Bainbridge Street in Stuyvesant Heigh...
The house at 139 Bainbridge Street was built in 1903 by developer William Clayton for an upscal...
Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. Much of the section of Stuyvesant Heights in the vicini...
In Part 1Â we met Edward B. Coombs and George H. Nason, the last elected coroners of the indepen...
Read Part 2 of this story. If you are a fan of procedural cop shows, you are no doubt familiar ...
Inventor and business giant Thomas E. Murray died in 1929, just as the world was about to suffer...
Brooklynite Thomas E. Murray was one of America’s greatest inventors. A colleague of Thomas E...