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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...