A new book ,“The Brooklyn Heights Promenade,” by long-time Brooklyn Heights Press editor Henrik Krogius has prompted the Schneider/Junkersfeld team to produce a lively and informative video about one of New York’s major tourist destinations. The video features Krogius and numerous images that tell the complex story of one of our neighborhood’s prize treasures. Henrik’s […]
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Henrik Krogius Talks About His New Book About the Creation of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade [Video]
BHS Hosts “Trivial and Convivial” Pub Night Thursday
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will hold its third annual “Trivial and Convivial” pub night this Thursday evening starting at 7:00 (doors open at 6:30), sponsored by Urban Oyster and Brooklyn Brewery. Come test your wits with themed rounds about all sorts of Brooklyn ephemera including music, movies, geography, and […]
Columbia Heights “America’s Most Literary Street”
According to Evan Hughes, in the Daily Beast’s “Book Beast”: Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding […]
“Strange History” Lectures at BHS, Starting Wednesday Evening
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierepont Street (corner of Clinton), in conjunction with the Brooklyn Brainery, is offering a series of three lectures by historian Benjamin Feldman, each on an unusual topic in Brooklyn or New York City history. You may attend all three, or choose à la carte. The lectures will be at BHS […]
Brooklyn Heights History: Urban Renewal Part 2
The postwar brought the great era of modernism and social engineering. A nation flush with victory and wealth thought it could solve any problem and enthusiastically looked forward to, and even worshipped, the future (probably because the immediate past had been so bad). A bright, modernist future beckoned. At the same time there was a […]
And So It Begins…Columbia Heights Sgraffito Restoration Project
The Columbia Heights Sgraffito Restoration Project officially has begun! As mentioned a couple of times before here at Brooklyn Heights Blog, the building’s co-op board had been looking to restore the unique sgraffito façade for years.
Brooklyn Heights History: Urban Renewal Part 1
In 1931 the Brooklyn Eagle reported that a scheme had been developed by the Regional Plan Association to build a high-rise apartment development atop the bluff at Columbia Heights. The implementation of the sort of slash-and-burn urban planning advocated by Robert Moses would have ruined the area. Clearly, the dominant opinion was that the old […]
Be a History Sleuth for the Brooklyn Museum
Reader Nancy alerted us to this item in Carol Vogel’s “Inside Art” column in yesterday’s Times: The New York Times: SOMEWHERE IN BROOKLYN: The Brooklyn Museum is digitizing its collections, and trying to solve a few mysteries along the way. One such effort is to identify the locations in thousands of photographs taken of Brooklyn […]
BHS Offers Tours of Its Historic Building
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), is offering guided tours of its historic building, completed in 1881 and designed by architect George B. Post, whose other commissions include the New York Stock Exchange and the Wisconsin State Capitol. In addition to the architecture, the tour will reveal the “hidden history” of […]
Brooklyn Heights History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Henry Ward Beecher and the Tilton Trial
Perhaps not surprisingly, Henry Ward Beecher and his associate Theodore Tilton were early and prominent feminists. Their principal goal after the Civil War was obtaining the vote for women, but some also advocated full legal equality and what would become the feminist agenda of the 1970s. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the […]
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