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Flatbush Avenue is one of the longest streets in Brooklyn. It runs from the Manhattan Bridge all the way to the Rockaways. It’s a very old route that started as a Native American path and became a road in Colonial times — even becoming the target of...

JUNE 6 In History 1242: Two dozen wagonloads of Talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts were burned at Paris. 1247: Pope Innocent IV contacts the king of Navarre. In a dispatch he requested the king compel Christian debtors to pay off their...

Photo by Christian Pichler What comes to mind when you read the word “prostitute”? If your first image is a scantily clad female on a street corner—maybe scrambling to support a drug addiction—you’re not alone, but your...

Probably it was when we first read The Bell Jar, at about age 13, that we realized one day we would grow up to be drinkers. It’s all thanks to Esther Greenwood, really, who described discovering, at long last, that vodka was her drink because “it didn...

BERDAN, WILLIAM (1841-1900). Private, 9th New York Infantry, Company F. A native New Yorker, he enlisted there on April 23, 1861, as a private. On May 4, he mustered into the 9th New York Infantry where he served until he mustered out at New York City...