A new website maps Depression-era tax photos of every building in the city, making it easier for researchers and history buffs to navigate several hundred thousand snapshots of buildings from 1940s ...

Nearly 80 years ago, the cost of rental housing in most places in Brooklyn ranged from $20 to $49 a month. A map assembled by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2015 used census data from the 1940s to ...

A map from the Brooklyn Historical Society gives a striking visual of how rents were distributed across the borough in the 1940s, and reveals that Coney Island was once surprisingly upscale. Created ...

Trolleys, or, if you must, trolley cars, were an exposition of sensory happenings. For a young boy, they were an explosion that rocked his receptors. Yes, “Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.” You ...

Brooklynites are now able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of all New York state residents — from Leo Durocher, who managed the Brooklyn ...

Back in 2007, WNYC noted that in 1942, "radio stations, newspapers and magazines maligned the borough of Brooklyn no less than 2,623 times," a decrease from the prior year when that number was 6,457.

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ production “February House” invites audiences into a brownstone for two and half hours, whisking viewers away to an artsy corner of 1940s ...

At this Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, many in the crowd of 90,000 will wager that their faith is Justified. Expect the odds to be a lot shorter in the last jewel of the Triple Crown than they were back ...

The Whitehouse Beacon, made in Brooklyn from 1940 through 1949, was about as cheap and simple as a non-box camera could be. No focusing needed, no complicated aperture settings to get wrong—just pull ...