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From Dutch colonial farmhouses to buildings that played a major role in the American Revolution, here’s a list of the top 11 oldest structures in Brooklyn.
While Brooklyn is a place of constant flux, the savvy Brooklynite knows where to find remnants of its historical past. Here are five historic Brooklyn buildings that are still standing, despite the ...
The Grashorn Building, located on Surf Avenue between Jones Walk and West 12th Street, is an example of the difficulties facing old wooden buildings throughout Brooklyn.
The case for modernism, 200 Montague St. and other new "old" buildings like it, as presented by Simeon Bankoff of the Historic Districts Council.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Crown Heights’ historic Studebaker building, now a residential property slapped with over 250 city violations, is set for auction in April with a $2.95 ...
My father, Irving Kaufman (1910 – 1982), was a professional photographer who started in Brooklyn in the mid 1930s working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He captured thousands of images of ...
At first glance, a group of affordable apartment buildings in Brooklyn looks brand new. But they’re actually nearly a century old. Their new white facades, with a sculptural design, aren’t ...
Brooklyn's churches often struggle to keep up with maintenance and repairs on their large, historic buildings. The Brown Memorial Baptist Church on Washington Avenue and Gates Avenue in Clinton Hill ...
The two-and-a-half story, Italianate building at the corner of Brooklyn's 3rd and 3rd has gone by many names: historians may remember it as the former headquarters of the New York and Long Island ...
Historic Brooklyn synagogue demolished; congregation looks ahead to rebuild 02:12. ... It's the end of an era for hundreds of worshippers who prayed in the 200-year-old building, ...