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 ...

With all the controversy about the Brooklyn Heights Promenade possibly closing on a temporary basis due to repairs on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway underneath, it may be worth taking a look at the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...