SQUIBB BRIDGE Located on Middagh Street between Columbia Heights and Furman Street, the ¾ acre Squibb Park opened in December 1951, along with the final section of the Brooklyn Promenade, as part [...]

WALT WHITMAN AND BROOKLYN THE child is already born, and is now living, stout and hearty, who will see Brooklyn numbering one million inhabitants! Its situation for grandeur, beauty and salubrity is [...]

THE GRANITE PROSPECT The Granite Prospect was opened in March 2010 during the first phase of the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront redevelopment project. Located within Pier 1, a 9.5 acre parcel of [...]

THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT View of the Fulton Ferry buildings, Brooklyn, Long Island." The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.  The [...]

CADMAN PLAZA The 10.384 acre Cadman Plaza Park, formerly known as ‘Brooklyn Bridge Plaza,’ was acquired by the City of New York in 1935. Once the site of the Sands Street Terminal of [...]

THE BROOKLYN PROMENADE "New York, from Brooklyn Heights." The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library.  The New York Public Library [...]

ROME PRINT SHOP The Rome Brothers print shop was located in a three-story red brick building that once stood on the southwest corner of 98 Cranberry and Fulton Streets (now Cadman Plaza [...]