This house at 140 Clinton Avenue in Wallabout sits next to a recent House of the Day — a temple-fronted Greek Revival — and the pair must offer a greater study in contrasts than any two side-by-side ...
In 1624, the Dutch ship New Netherland sailed into a bay on the East River and dropped anchor. On this ship were a group of French speaking Protestants called Walloons, from what is now a part of ...
The historic beauty of a swath of Civil War-era homes in an isolated corner of Fort Greene has finally been recognized. More than 200 properties located within five blocks of Wallabout bounded by ...
Susan Raskin’s 1830s Wallabout house is a knock-out and she wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. But when she first laid eyes on it during a home-buying hunt, she refused to get out of the car.
Wallabout may not have the name recognition of Dumbo, but with a crush of new retail and residential developments, the district near Brooklyn’s Navy Yard is poised to steal some of the luster of its ...
It is a small irony that life looks sweet these days on Washington Avenue in the Wallabout neighborhood. Anchored by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the block once produced the ...
Residents of a quaint portion of Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene breathed a sigh of relief this week when the city designated the block an historic district — protected from the threat of flashy new ...
An energy company is pushing to install and operate a floating 79.9-megawatt power generator on a barge in Wallabout Channel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but local residents and officials are scrambling ...