“My Beer Is Rheingold, the Dry Beer” — the Beer, the Brewery and the Bruhaha
Today, the rise of craft beers is an undeniable phenomenon -- with countless new breweries, festiv...
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Did You Know the Teddy Bear Was Invented in a Bed Stuy Candy Shop?
Everything ends up here eventually, but Made in Brooklyn is a column exploring native, born-and-bred...
How Master Builder Robert Moses Transformed Brooklyn as We Know It
More than anyone else in recent history, Robert Moses shaped the physical infrastructure of Brookly...
Black Velvet and Gold Lace: What Highfalutin Brooklynites Wore to the Opera 100 Years Ago
Just in case you needed an example of "the effective use of a gold coronet," this 1918 issue of Br...
Still Hard to Get To, but No Longer Red: How Red Hook Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza
The dignified entrance to both Prospect Park and Eastern Parkway, Grand Army Plaza remains a centr...
Overwrought Victorian vs. Basic Modern Box: Weighing the Past and Present of 70 Clark Street
If you're into over-the-top Victorian architecture, you would have loved the Sands Street Memorial...
How the Death-O-Meter Helped Brooklynites Promote Street Safety in the 1920s
In the 1920s, Brooklyn's increasing number of automobiles turned the borough's streets into a tre...
The Luxurious Wedding and Remarkable Home of Great Brooklyn Architect Montrose Morris
Even today, having your wedding covered by a prominent newspaper is a coup. For socially prominent B...
This Urban Landscape Was Once a Forest: How Bushwick Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
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