Tag: Suzanne Spellen

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...

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

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...