Brooklyn Heights was the first-ever New York City neighborhood to be designated a historic district. But did you know there's also a Brooklyn Skyscraper District?
NYC has a history of renaming streets, parks and playgrounds after famous musicians. Here we some places which have paid honor to influential city artists
The New York Times sent a team of weather enthusiasts to collect wind data from what they thought was the windiest intersection in all the boroughs.
With the imminent demise of New York City’s pay phones in 2014, it seems miraculous that the wooden phone booths
Brooklyn's Cranberry, Orange and Pineapple Streets were originally named to fight the "pretention" of naming streets after their aristocratic residents.
The carriage houses just off Love Lane on College Place Brooklyn may be famous for its elegant brownstones, but its
A hidden subway ventilator lurks behind a fake brownstone at 58 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights; the fake facade is a stop on Robert Lobenstein's tour.
A NYC Transit Museum tour reveals old and new living side by side in a Brooklyn Heights power substation, along with a ventilation facility masquerading as a Brooklyn townhouse.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, we grabbed grub at Lassen & Hennings, a great delicatessen in Brooklyn Heights and headed to Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 where we would spend the next seven hours. I remember this area of the Brooklyn waterfront from old movies. It was always used for a sketchy exchange, involving a mobster or cop who needed a location where nobody else would be. Not anymore!