Monthly Archives: November, 2023

A Brooklynite who learned how to freeze food

The moment when people invented a method for preserving...

The story of Cutler’s Drug Store, a Brooklyn pharmacist and military man

The pharmacies of the past centuries are very different...

History of Brooklyn’s Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

As medicine has evolved, it has undergone tremendous transformations....

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The History and Evolution of Brooklyn Street Art: From Subway Graffiti to the Bushwick Collective

Brooklyn street art has traveled an extraordinary path—from illicit...

Revitalizing Brooklyn’s Industrial Past: How Old Factories Became Thriving Cultural Hubs

Brooklyn’s industrial heritage has found dynamic new life thanks...

From a wooden cart to an ambulance: the history of Brooklyn’s emergency medical services

It’s easy to underestimate the history of Brooklyn’s ambulance...

Cholera—one. Cholera—two. Cholera—three. How Brooklyn Learned to Survive

In the 19th century, cholera struck Brooklyn three times—at...

Not a sanatorium, but a death sentence: the story of the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives

If, when dreaming of a health resort, someone imagines...
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