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Past and Present: 90 Eighth Avenue
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. The pattern of development in many residential neighborhoods in Brooklyn is a familiar one to us by now: farmlands become suburban estates, which in turn are replaced...
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Past and Present: 44 Clinton Street
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. I wish this one was still with us. It’s a delightfully inventive building designed by an important and imaginative architect, and it would be fun to just be able to...
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Past and Present: Public School 3
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The first public school in Brooklyn was founded in 1681, and was located in a church building near the corner of Bridge and Fulton Streets, according to the Brooklyn...
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Past and Present: The Brooklyn Home for Consumptives
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The communities that are now Crown Heights and Stuyvesant Heights saw most of their development take place in the last twenty years of the 19th century, on into the...
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Past and Present: New York Dock Company Warehouses
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. By the beginning of the 20th century, Brooklyn’s waterfront was the most important commercial entity in New York City. It’s hard to believe now, since it’s all...
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Past and Present: The Brevoort Homestead
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The Lefferts family was one of Brooklyn’s largest and wealthiest Dutch families, a family with several branches that put their roots down in different parts of old...
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Past and Present: The St. Marks Avenue Hotel
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. Bedford Avenue stretches from Williamsburg to Gravesend. Rogers Avenue, almost as long, begins at Farragut Road, near Brooklyn College, and intersects Bedford at Dean...
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Past and Present: The Bedford YMCA
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The Young Men’s Christian Association, now called the Y.M.C.A, began in London in 1844, as a refuge for young men new to the city. London could be an overwhelming,...
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Past and Present: The Prospect Park Baptist Church
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. I get my “past” photos from a number of sources, and one of them is eBay. There are thousands of old postcards of Brooklyn for sale every day, many of them showing...
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Past and Present: Collegiate & Polytechnic Institute
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The blocks surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall have changed so much in the last hundred plus years that if it weren’t for Borough Hall itself, once Brooklyn City Hall,...
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Past and Present: The House at Nostrand and Parkside
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. New York City is, by and large, built on the ruins of its past. If left to the powerful real estate concerns of this city, there probably would only be a handful of...
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Past and Present: The Brooklyn Club
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. Somewhere around the 1850s, this house, which had a different numbering then, was built. This was a time of great building in the Heights, when many of Remsen...
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Past and Present: The Crescent Athletic Club, Bay Ridge
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The Crescent Athletic Club was Brooklyn’s most prestigious sports club. From the confines of its swanky clubhouse in Brooklyn Heights, the elite men of Brooklyn...
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Past and Present: Fulton Street at Marcy Avenue
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The changes that take place on our streetscapes are often subtle, especially on residential blocks. One can often look at a century old photograph of many of our...
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Past and Present: The Stewart McDougall Farm
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. As Brooklyn developed as a city, in the 1800s, communities began to spread out from the ferry and the Heights in a concentric wave. Led by improved transportation...
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Past and Present: The Home for Destitute Children
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The rapid growth of Brooklyn in the 19th century also came with the growth in the number of poor people. With the rise in rural people moving to the city, as well as...
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