Attendees of the George Floyd Memorial march gather near Hank Willis Thomas’s “Unity” sculpture on Tillary Street in June 2020. (photo by Jon Vachon, courtesy Center for Brooklyn History) On July 20, ...

A Brooklyn community is fighting to turn a forgotten landmark into a heritage center. Amid the glassy skyscrapers of downtown Brooklyn stands a small brick reminder of a different century: a ...

Brooklyn Heights — Thanks to a mix of COVID and construction, Brooklyn Heights’ venerable Center for Brooklyn History at 128 Pierrepont was closed for three years. Then, in September, the 1881 ...

This February, Brooklyn is celebrating Black History Month with a dynamic lineup of events that highlight the borough’s deep-rooted connections to Black culture, history and achievements. From the ...

“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it. By Jennifer Schuessler Come to the ...

The Brooklyn Public Library has a brand-new Center for Brooklyn History in a joint collaboration with The Brooklyn Historical Society. The Brooklyn Historical Society has been home to the largest ...

The Supreme Court Library in Brooklyn, New York State’s largest free law library and the third largest in the world (after the Library of Congress and the LA Law Library, which reports housing “one ...

If Thanksgiving has left you with an urge to find a comfy spot and curl up with some reading, there are plenty of Brooklyn tales filled with fabulous architecture, unusual characters and iconic ...

Movies take us us to different worlds, and they’ve found plenty in Kings County. Bedford-Stuyvesant was spotlighted in “Do the Right Thing,” Brooklyn Heights in “Moonstruck,” and Park Slope in ...