Ask a historian
Undated photo of a train at the Brooklyn Bath and Coney Island Railroad. AP Photo
Do you ever wonder — in the midst of all the BQE commotion — how the Promenade came to be in the first place?
Are you curious about what happened to Brooklyn’s Native American tribes?
Have you ever just wanted to… ask a historian?
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.