Center for Brooklyn History - Urban Archive

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Center for Brooklyn History

Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History preserves, protects and shares Brooklyn's history. It is a trove of special collections, archives, ephemera, art exhibits and programs that bring the borough's rich history to Brooklynites of all ages.

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April 1, 1949: A Day in Brooklyn Labor History

Unsung Builders: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Celebrates Thanksgiving

Mass Transit, Brooklyn Style

The Elephantine Colossus

The Opening of a Vaudeville Theater in Williamsburg

Churches, and Clubs, and Classrooms, Oh My! The History of Saint Ann's School

Fort Greene and Clinton Hill

Williamsburg Bridge

Carroll Gardens Historic District

Food Fit for Kings County: The Culinary History of Brooklyn

Hunterfly Road Houses at Weeksville

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church

The Chewing Gum King

Cyclone

Floyd Bennett Field

Coffey Park

The History of a Historical Society

Taking Care of Brooklyn

The Construction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

Irving Herzberg and the Plane Crash of 1960

Fulton Street's Golden Age

Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea

Brooklyn Goes to the Movies

Mozart Statue

Women's Activism in Brooklyn

Brooklynology: The Kosciuszko Bridge and the Changing Face of Brooklyn

Brooklyn's Rose Garden

Holidays at the Center for Brooklyn History

Architecture that Inspires: The Packer Collegiate Institute

The Merchant Marines of Sheepshead Bay

Housing Starts: The Riverside Buildings and the Push for Affordable Housing in Brooklyn

Morrell's Montague

When Brooklyn Had a Dairy

Bedford Y.M.C.A

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

The Curious Origins of Thanksgiving

The Schenck-Crooke House

The Flying Dutchman

Leprosy on Kingston Avenue

NYC: How a City Votes

Water, Water Everywhere

The Brooklyn Central Library

The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch

The Brooklyn Dodgers

Abraham & Straus

Marianne Moore’s former home

Brooklynology: Now Showing at the Fox...

Stay Cool at Brooklyn Pools

History of the Daily Eagle

A.I. Namm & Son Department Store

Lundy's Restaurant

Taking Pride in Brooklyn LGBTQ+ History

The Manhattan Bridge

Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden

Fort Greene and Clinton Hill

You Can't Win Against The Poplar Street Crime Laboratory

70 Willow Street

Carroll Street Bridge

Vanderveer Park: When Flatbush was a Suburb

The Belle Hotel of Brooklyn Heights

A.I. Namm and Son Department Store

Wallabout Market

Sharon Hall Hotel

Gage and Tollner Restaurant

Brighton Beach Hotel

Ocean Parkway Bike Path

From Castle Keeps to Community Spaces: the Evolution of Brooklyn’s Armories

The Great Pinball Machine Bust

Brooklyn Borough Hall

Marine Fire Boat Station

Before Wegmans: Grocers of Downtown Brooklyn

A Feast on Fulton: Gage and Tollner

Tugboat Strike of 1946

Children of the Dump

Flagship on Fulton: Abraham & Straus

Pratt Institute Free Library

Packer Collegiate Institute

Mrs. Hunt, Henry Ward Beecher, and Plymouth Church

An Expressway and a Promenade

Brooklyn Historical Society

The Lost Murals of Borough Hall

The Environmental Story of Brooklyn

67 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS

Brooklyn's Teen Poets

The Carroll Street Bridge

A Crossroads of Immigration

25 Columbia Heights

The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden

The Miraculous Movement of the Brighton Beach Hotel

Lady Moody House

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church

Jan Martense Schenck House

Coney Island, Baby!

Warehouse Way

A Blissful Spot: Owl's Head Park

The Fulton Ferry Fireboat House

Holly(Mid)wood: The Vitagraph Studios

Brooklyn From Home

Hotel Margaret

The Lenape and Brooklyn

Brooklynology: School History in Brooklyn

Old School Brooklyn

Owl's Head Park

The Dodgers-Yankees Rivalry

Two by Two: The Prospect Park Zoo

Penny Bridge

68 Jay Street

Majestic Theater

The Brief Life of a Fanciful Building

Brooklyn College