The Brooklyn Historical Society’s stunning new museum in DUMBO
It just got a bit easier to access the glorious history of the Brooklyn waterfront. Don’t get me wrong; I
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Brooklyn History
The New Brooklyn: The ups and downs of a very frenetic borough
The subtitle to Kay S. Hymowitz‘s engaging and often provocative new book The New Brooklyn: What It Takes To Bring A City
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The Terrible Brooklyn Theater Fire: The Worst Disaster In Brooklyn History — 140 Years Ago Today
It is difficult to discuss calmly the frightful disaster which happened in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. No such awful sacrifice
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GOWANUS! Brooklyn’s Troubled Waters
PODCAST The history of the Gowanus Canal, at the heart of a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood today, once used to be
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Podcast Rewind: Williamsburg(h) where did you go?
PODCAST Williamsburg used to have an H at the end of its name, not to mention dozens of major industries
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The History of Greenpoint, Brooklyn: An Industrial-Strength Story
PODCAST The history of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint and the oft-polluted Newtown Creek. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has a surprising history
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The mysterious death of Calvert Vaux
On November 19, 1895, Calvert Vaux went for a morning walk from his son’s home in Brooklyn. He never returned.
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Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn
PODCAST Park Slope – or simply the park slope, as they used to say – is best known for its
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Ungentrified: Brooklyn in the 1970s
The new Bowery Boys podcast that comes out this Friday will be about Brooklyn. So let’s get in the mood
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Screaming Phantoms, Tomahawks, Phantom Lords, Dirty Ones and other gangs of 1970s Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Dirty Ones, a notorious gang from Williamsburg. My new column for A24 Films (a tie-in to the new movie
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For Whom The Ghost Tolls: A Haunting in Bedford-Stuyvesant
The corner of Stuyvesant and Jefferson in 1900, looking much the way it does today. The haunted house in question
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Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Cincinnati Reds at Ebbets Field — in the first Major League baseball game ever broadcast on television
Seventy five years ago today, an extraordinary tradition began — televised Major League baseball! The location was appropriately Ebbets Field, one
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History in the making 6/10: Sign of the Times Edition
Picture courtesy Steve Welsh/Flickr One of the most striking sights in Brooklyn is the old Kentile Floors sign in Gowanus,
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The short shelf life of the Tip-Tops, the Brooklyn baseball team situated near the Gowanus River and named for bread
The piping hot uniforms of the Brooklyn Tip-Tops, worn by baby-faced manager Lee Magee For a brief shining moment between
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The hottest place to listen to records in Brooklyn
One hundred years ago today, the Abraham & Straus department store on Fulton Street (today’s Brooklyn Macy’s location) kicks off
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