Closing Bell: Learn How to Research Your House at Brooklyn Historical Society
The Brooklyn Historical Society is hosting a seminar next month on how to unearth the history of any home or block in Brooklyn, using archival documents and databases. Historical Society Librarian...
View ArticleClosing Bell: History of Brooklyn’s Jewish Delis
Traditional Jewish delis have dwindled in Brooklyn, but Brooklyn Historical Society is inviting three deli owners to discuss how they've survived and thrived as the borough has changed around them....
View ArticleClosing Bell: Explore Coney Island Artifacts and History at Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery will host an exhibit next month celebrating the life of William F. Mangels, the master mechanic and designer of several turn-of-the-century Coney Island rides, including The Whip,...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Tour the Former Sisters of Mercy Convent in Clinton Hill
The Brooklyn Historical Society is giving visitors a look inside the 150-year-old Sisters of Mercy Convent at 273 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill. The Sisters of Mercy, also known as the Walking...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brooklyn Historical Society to Unveil Exhibit on Brooklyn...
The Brooklyn Historical Society next month will debut an exhibit about the abolitionist movement in Brooklyn and the little-known activists behind it. "In Pursuit of Freedom" traces the roots of...
View ArticleThe Remarkable Rise of Philanthropist Lena Sittig and the Brooklyn Christmas...
1907 photo via Brooklyn Eagle Beginning in the 1890s and for nearly 40 years after, the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society brought holiday cheer to Brooklyn’s underprivileged children, treating them to a...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 151 Powers Street, a Charming Fishscale Cottage in...
Brooklyn, one building at a time. A tiny wood-framed house survives in Greenpoint. Name: Semi-detached wood frame house Address: 151 Powers Street Cross Streets: Manhattan and Graham avenues...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 222 Livingston Street, Home of the Chandler Piano Company
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Built as a private home during the post–Civil War boom years, this building became famous as the home of the Chandler Piano Company. Name: Originally a row house,...
View ArticleWalkabout: The Arbuckle Coffee Company, Brooklyn’s Other Great Brew
Read Part One of the Brooklyn coffee history series. Coffee came to America as early as the late 1600s. By the mid-19th century, Manhattan was the green coffee capital of America, home to dozens of...
View ArticlePast and Present: The House at 1183 Bergen Street in Crown Heights North
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The pink house on Bergen Street was still standing when I moved to Crown Heights North in 2000. Only two blocks from my house, I saw it often. It was in rough shape...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 138 Milton Street, From a Porcelain Prince’s Home to a...
Brooklyn, one building at a time. This free-standing mansion was home to Thomas C. Smith, who also designed and built it. Smith was one of Greenpoint’s important residents — an accomplished...
View ArticleWalkabout: King Coffee, the Magic Beans That Powered Brooklyn
If coffee was a controlled substance, most of us would be addicts of the worst sort. Our national morning jones for caffeine has been the catalyst for fortune and failure over the centuries. Everyone...
View ArticlePast and Present: The Bay Ridge Public Library
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. By 1880, Bay Ridge was developing as one of Brooklyn’s premier suburban neighborhoods. Its greatest asset was that wonderful view of New York Bay and the Narrows —...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 317 Rugby Road, a Colorful Queen Anne in Beverley Square...
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Who doesn’t love this colorful, perfectly sized and proportioned Victorian Flatbush house? It is one of many built by developer and architect T.B. Ackerson in...
View ArticleWalkabout: The Summer of 1915 — Edward Reiss and the “Negro Invasion” of Park...
Edward Reiss was a larger-than-life Brooklyn character in the early 20th century who often took matters into his own hands when a situation wasn’t to his liking. Our story today concerns his use of a...
View ArticleWalkabout: Six Brooklyn Buildings That Used to Be Schools
It’s School Week here on Brownstoner — a series of posts celebrating the start of the school year. We’ve been highlighting some of the wonderful school buildings in Brooklyn this week, focusing on the...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 832 Marcy Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant’s Boys High School
It’s School Week here on Brownstoner. Stay tuned to check out more school-themed stories. I was asked to pick my favorite school building for this series of school posts. Of course, I have to go with...
View ArticleWalkabout: How Workers and the Labor Movement Gave Us Labor Day
New York City was home to the first Labor Day parade and rally. The year was 1882 and the place was Union Square, at that time the heart of Manhattan. We’ve been celebrating the American worker with a...
View ArticlePast and Present: The Robert Graves Company of Fort Greene
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. If you’ve ever restored an old house and come upon 19th- or early-20th-century wallpaper, it could have been made by the Robert Graves Company of Brooklyn. Between...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 7-11 South Portland Avenue, Elegance in Fort Greene
Brooklyn, one building at a time. This double-sized, semi-detached mansion is one of the few remaining in Fort Greene. For all its one-time splendor, it didn’t remain a single family home for long....
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