An Old Brooklyn Story Gets Fresh Reporting
Steeped in archival research, a multimedia project about a puzzling street plan allows readers to scroll through the 19th century and find the present day.
A photographic print of an unknown location in Brooklyn, circa 1872 to 1877. The man pictured here was probably a mail carrier.Credit.George Bradford Brainerd, via Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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Architecture is a defining interest in Jeremy Lechtzin’s life. He lives in New York, where towering wonders invite the skyward stare. But he spends as much time looking down and squinting. A brick that’s not like the others. Dates etched in stone. The particulars of a sewer cap. These are the details that interest him.