Walk in the Footsteps of Walt Whitman on a Tour of Brooklyn
Visit the the Fort Greene area homes and haunts of poet Walt Whitman on a guided tour of the bard’s beloved borough of Brooklyn!
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Go Behind-the-Scenes at Renovations at Brooklyn’s Famed Gage & Tollner Restaurant
Gage & Tollner, Oyster and Chop House circa 1960, Photographic postcard, V1988.54.22; Brooklyn Historical Society.
For decades, the famed Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner, one of the city’s oldest, was hidden inside a discount jewelry and clothing store, but now, the hotspot once frequented by icons like Truman Capote, Mae West, and Jimmy Durante …
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Walt Whitman Way in Brooklyn Gets Unveiled Next to Pratt Institute
A year ago, preservationist Brad Vogel conjured an idea to get a street named for Walt Whitman for the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth. On Saturday, the co-naming celebration took place in Brooklyn .
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The Last Abandoned Trolley in Red Hook, from the Boston Green Line
On the Red Hook waterfront, tucked behind Fairway and the Beard Street warehouses is an abandoned Boston Green line trolley, the last remnant of a bold experiment to bring the street car back to Brooklyn.
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Photos Inside the Raw Spaces of a 19th-Century Brooklyn Paint Factory
See the exposed brick, wooden beams and concrete construction of a 19th-century paint factory in DUMBO that will soon become a residential complex!
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The Bat Signal Lights Up NYC for Batman Day
It’s Batman’s 80th birthday and on Saturday night for Batman Day, the bat signal was projected in NYC and twelve other cities around the world. In Gotham, it lit up the side of the Domino Sugar Factory.
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Last Chance to See the World’s First Universally Accessible Catamaran
The world’s first and only universally accessible catamaran is sailing around NYC this week a part of a tour along the East Coast!
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Beyond the Streets, Colorful Exhibition Honors NYC Street Art
A colorful new museum on Brooklyn’s waterfront honors the influence of public street art, from graffiti to sculpture and everything in between.
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Go Inside a Historic Paint Factory in DUMBO
Discover the stories behind the historic buildings that line DUMBO’s cobblestone streets on a special tour through this waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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The Adorable Shingled Cat Houses of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
There are many things Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute is known for. A renown arts education program, a world-class modern art sculpture park, a landmarked steam plant…and its resident campus felines, the Pratt Cats
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Explore an Abandoned Shooting Range and Hidden Museum Inside the Park Slope Armory
Hidden inside the historic Park Slope Armory are two mythic locations: an abandoned shooting range underground once used by the 14th Regiment of the New York State militia, nicknamed as the ”Red Legged Devils” during the Civil War and a hidden Veterans Museum
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Inside Torah Animal World, NYC’s Museum Filled with Taxidermy Creatures
Torah Animal World in Boro Park, Brooklyn is filled with at over $1.5 million in taxidermied animals and has have every animal and bird mentioned in the Torah on exhibit.
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