brooklyn museum
Photo via Brooklyn Historical Society [https://instagram.com/p/7LeP0lrOz5/?taken-by=brooklynhistory].As our heat wave winds down, we continue to give thanks to modern technologies such as air conditioning and refrigerator freezers. Can you imagine what it would have been like to not have these things? How would we
history
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum Collection [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/20601].Did you know that there used to be a major produce market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, called the Wallabout Market, back in the turn of the century? It makes sense, since the Navy Yard was
flashback friday
Photo courtesy of New York Public Library [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm] and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www.facebook.com/NYCLandmarks/photos/a.570041393025256.144620.133261836703216/1003407093022015/?type=1&permPage=1] .Look outside your window and you’ll get a nice little snapshot of a
biketrain
The Joseph Steele house is one of the oldest buildings in Clinton Hill. (Illustration by Daniel Lewis)What makes a neighborhood? People, pets and the stories that make up our days. But we also have our buildings, the places where we work, play, eat, sleep, learn and live. Throughout Fort