Eye on Real Estate: One of the largest collections of Victorian wood-frame houses in the entire country can be found right here in Brooklyn. Victorian Flatbush, built more than a century ago, is filled with stand-alone homes with eye-pleasing features like porches and turrets. Architectural flourishes call to mind antebellum mansions, chalets in the Alps or Tudor homes in Midwestern
Eye on Real Estate: Brooklyn residents are going to Green-Wood Cemetery to take walks in its wide-open spaces during New York’s novel coronavirus lockdown. The
Eye on Real Estate: The People’s Playground is a place of comfort and solace during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Coney Island, with its famed Boardwalk
Eye on Real Estate: Such serendipity. It was my sheer good fortune to visit Brooklyn Botanic Garden the very last day before officials decided to
Eye on Real Estate: Did you know Bath Beach was named for England’s famous spa town, Bath? I hadn’t strolled around this charming Brooklyn neighborhood
Eye on Real Estate: Normal people go to Winter Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea to eat fab food, browse through boxes of five-dollar vinyl records and
Eye on Real Estate: A property the Jehovah’s Witnesses sold when they moved their world headquarters out of Brooklyn Heights to upstate New York is
Eye on Real Estate: This is a story about Brooklyn’s other canal — the pretty one — and the neighborhood where it’s located. If you’re old enough to read, you
Eye on Real Estate: I took 72 photos of Central Park Slope on Saturday. I would have taken more. But sunset comes too soon in the wintertime, and historic building
Eye on Real Estate: A neighborhood organization is trying to secure landmark status for a historic section of Park Slope that’s home to the largest collection of non-landmarked historic buildings in
Eye on Real Estate: Come see where shipbuilders lived. Nineteenth-century Greenpoint was a hotbed of industry. China, porcelain and glass production were big business back then, as was oil refining
Eye on Real Estate: Brooklyn Bridge Park is so popular that it’s easy to forget how new it is. The park first opened just 10 years ago — and at
On the corner of Cranberry and Willow streets, you’ll find the house where Cher lived in the 1987 film.
Bundle up — and bring lunch.
New year, new decade — hello, 2020.
From the waterfront, to cemeteries, to a little bit of TV history.
See old theatres, a beautiful bank and a Masonic lodge in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick.
Central Brooklyn’s 19th- and early 20th-century rowhouses are a thing of beauty.
Welcome to waterfront Brooklyn, Wegmaniacs.
Eye on Real Estate: What’s a walk that’s worth taking when fall weather turns wintry? One that involves Flatbush’s Victorian houses. This is the neighborhood where you’ll find America’s largest
Eye on Real Estate: Sometimes you need an urban adventure. How about a stroll beneath a highway? If it leads you through Red Hook, it’s totally worthwhile. There’s a gritty beauty
Eye on Real Estate: Everybody’s in love with the Bronx step street where Joaquin Phoenix dances in “Joker.” Did you know Bay Ridge has two step streets of its own?
Eye on Real Estate: You can walk from Boerum Hill to Brownsville. What a splendid slice of Brooklyn’s built environment. If you move at a normal pace, you can complete
Eye on Real Estate: You can walk from Boerum Hill to Brownsville on Bergen Street. What a fine stroll. There are pre-Civil War brick rowhouses, an industrial area that residents
Eye on Real Estate: Call it the Pizza Trail. You can walk from the Bay Ridge shoreline to popular L&B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend on a single road: 86th Street.
Eye on Real Estate: Halloween is coming. What a perfect time for a walk in a Brooklyn graveyard. Why not visit the place where American icon Jackie Robinson was laid
Eye on Real Estate: The South Slope is full of old-fashioned architectural eye candy. See it while the leaves are still green. The other day when it was 80 degrees
Eye on Real Estate: There’s Adopt-a-Highway. Why not Adopt-a-Boardwalk? The Coney Island Boardwalk’s wooden planks are in urgent need of repair just about everywhere except the amusement park zone. In
I saw the death blow that brought down the Bowne building. It happened on Labor Day — Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Construction workers all over America had the day off,
Before you know it, swimming season’s going to end at Coney Island’s beach. Have you let the summer go by without splashing around in the sea? The amusement park rides,
When you want to watch the weather put on a show, Domino Park is the place to go. There’s a quarter-mile stretch of shoreline in the waterfront Williamsburg recreation area.
I’m thoroughly charmed by the new public green space at NYC Ferry’s South Williamsburg stop — and the big, fat flowers are to blame. They are bright red and big
Everybody in New York is familiar with Barclays Center. By now, I hope you’ve been to a concert or a Nets basketball game at the Brooklyn arena with the distinctive
I’m the nerd who always exhorts you to walk, walk, walk to see the best of Brooklyn. Today I’m going to encourage you to loaf around instead. How else will
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams backs a neighborhood-led upzoning proposal in North Crown Heights — rezoning that, if enacted, would require developers to create space for job-generating light industry, artisanal
If you’re staycationing in Brooklyn, there’s a neighborhood to visit that you might not have thought of: Windsor Terrace. It’s tucked between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. So if you’re