Old-Timey Magazine Told Brooklyn Victorians Where to Get the Latest in Building Bling
If you had house envy in turn-of-the-last-century Brooklyn and just had to know which of your neighb...
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From Boom to Bootlegging: The Excelsior Brewing Company of Bedford Stuyvesant
The Excelsior Brewing Company of Bed Stuy was not the best, biggest, or most well known of Brook...
The Remarkable Rise of Philanthropist Lena Sittig and the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society
Beginning in the 1890s and for nearly 40 years after, the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society brough...
Building of the Day: 151 Powers Street, a Charming Fishscale Cottage in Williamsburg
Brooklyn, one building at a time. A tiny wood-framed house survives in Williamsburg. Name: Semi...
Building 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,...
Past 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 m...
Past 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 pr...
Building of the Day: 317 Rugby Road, a Colorful Queen Anne in Beverley Square West
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Who doesn’t love this colorful, perfectly sized and proportio...
Walkabout: The Summer of 1915 — Edward Reiss and the “Negro Invasion” of Park Slope
Edward Reiss was a larger-than-life Brooklyn character in the early 20th century who often took ...
Walkabout: 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...
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