A new website maps Depression-era tax photos of every building in the city, making it easier for researchers and history buffs to navigate several hundred thousand snapshots of buildings from 1940s ...

With all the controversy about the Brooklyn Heights Promenade possibly closing on a temporary basis due to repairs on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway underneath, it may be worth taking a look at the ...

Brooklynites are now able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of all New York state residents — from Leo Durocher, who managed the Brooklyn ...

A map from the Brooklyn Historical Society gives a striking visual of how rents were distributed across the borough in the 1940s, and reveals that Coney Island was once surprisingly upscale. Created ...

Back in 2007, WNYC noted that in 1942, "radio stations, newspapers and magazines maligned the borough of Brooklyn no less than 2,623 times," a decrease from the prior year when that number was 6,457.

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ production “February House” invites audiences into a brownstone for two and half hours, whisking viewers away to an artsy corner of 1940s ...

It might be a bit harder to decorate a Brooklyn apartment for less than $500 these days, but that is what one couple was able to do in 1942. With some careful budgeting, creative reuse of secondhand ...

Brooklyn resident Perri Edwards inherited a green thumb from her mother — who got it from her own mother, and so on. “I still have plants that belonged to my grandmother from the 1940s,” the Crown ...

The Whitehouse Beacon, made in Brooklyn from 1940 through 1949, was about as cheap and simple as a non-box camera could be. No focusing needed, no complicated aperture settings to get wrong—just pull ...