Welcome back to Curbed Classics, a column in which writer Lisa Santoro traces the history of a classic New York City building. Have a building to nominate for a future installment? Please suggest it ...

Actually, Steven, Brighton Beach was the original Coney Island, as we know it. Before the neighborhood developed as a bathing beach, it was an island divided into sections: West End (Sea Gate), West ...

A look at Brooklyn, then and now. Coney Island wasn’t always honkytonk and amusement parks. Before the first rides, before Steeplechase Park, Luna Park and Dreamland, before the infamous Bowery and ...

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Brighton Beach may get its name from an English resort town, but a large portion of its population hails from a colder climate. In a moment in Brooklyn history that testifies to both the powers of man ...