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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It might be a bit harder to decorate a Brooklyn apartment for less than $500 these days, but that is what one couple was able to do in 1942. With some careful budgeting, creative reuse of secondhand ...

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All you needed was a round, pink ball and one other person. In some sections of Brooklyn, the balls were called pinkies. Ours were “spauldeens,” and the numbers of games one could play with them were ...

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present The Sound of All Things, a new art exhibition by painter Ted Papoulas, on ...

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 ...

Brooklyn resident Perri Edwards inherited a green thumb from her mother — who got it from her own mother, and so on. “I still have plants that belonged to my grandmother from the 1940s,” the Crown ...

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 ...

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 ...