North Brooklyn environmentalists and Pratt Institute have created a map charting historic environmental pollution in Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and adjacent neighborhoods. The local nonprofit North ...

The Brooklyn Paper reports that Williamsburg resident Paul Rubenfarb is leading a nascent effort to expand the bounds of the Greenpoint Historic District. The district, shown in the map above, was ...

What’s the deal with Greenpoint? Greenpoint, only accessible via the G train (and ferry), is not as flashy as other nearby North Brooklyn nabes ... waterfront views, historic buildings and ...

Wards are the historic equivalent of today ... A ward map of Brooklyn in 1915. Map via Brooklyn Genealogy In 1915, Bed Stuy composed the 23rd and part of the 7th and 9th wards, Greenpoint was spread ...

It shows a charming little settlement with canals along Broad Street and a real 12-foot-tall wall at Wall Street, and it inspired Gizmodo to dig up other historic maps. They mashed them together ...

Map of the city of Brooklyn: being the former cities of Brooklyn & Williamsburgh and the town of Bushwick, as consolidated January 1st, 1855 by an act of the legislature of the State of New York ...

Couples were married and goods were hawked at a historic Greenpoint building ... Three years later, the Brooklyn Bazaar sprung up in the former catering hall, offering a flea market open on ...

NEW YORK - This year marks 20 years since a historic rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn led to massive changes ... group put together an interactive map that highlights changes brought by that rezoning.