The vantage point in a “View From Brooklyn,” painted by George Copeland Ault in 1927, looks like Brooklyn Heights or Red Hook. Or is it farther up the East River, from Williamsburg or Greenpoint? “A precisionist and surrealist painter, especially noted... »
This photo shows Seatrain Shipbuilding workers on break at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1977. This photo was donated by Frank J. Trezza a long-time electrician at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Frank J. Trezza Collection contains several hundred color photog... »
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Commercial Building Address: 93 Court Street Cross Streets: Livingston and Schermerhorn Streets Neighborhood: Downtown Brooklyn Year Built: 1927 Architectural Style: Neo-Tudor Architect: Malkind & Weinstein Other... »
The sale of 212 Columbia Heights was recorded in city records this morning, setting a record as the most expensive house to ever sell in Brooklyn Heights. The 4,950-square-foot, seven-bedroom townhouse sold for $11 million. As Curbed noted a few weeks ... »
It looks like marketing has begun for the former Lamm Institute building at 110 Amity Street (now called 355 Henry) in Cobble Hill, where plans to divide the building into three townhouse units were announced last February. Brown Harris Stevens just po... »
The Executive Committee of Community Board 2 voted this week to approve, with modifications, a Landmarks Preservation Commission application for 72 Poplar St., the former police precinct building.The application calls for extending the existing fourth ... »
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.The Brooklyn PaperWell, 2012 is marching on, and even though we’re coming up on February, it still feels like spring. That’s good news for us — maybe that means the Year of the D... »
Nearly a decade after it was shuttered and despite protests from community members, the Brooklyn Detention Center will reopen next week. With its return to active service will come 759 male prisoners, who are currently housed on Riker's Island. Most of... »
