by Joanne A 
For anyone interested in exploring the history of Brooklyn, The Wooden House Project offers fantastic tours for lovers of Brooklyn’s wood-frame row houses. The walking tour I took through the streets of Greenpoint was an hour and a half long and was led by Elizabeth Finkelstein and Chelcey Berryhill.
Although it started raining when we arrived we were lucky in that it wasn’t a torrential down pour and turned out to…
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i loved this. thanks for sharing 🙂
I like to know the history of 68 eckford st I live there in the 60s my father was the first the renovate that house they say it was built in 1912 it’s much much older than that there was two sections of the house the front and the back the back was added on was we renovated it there was Windows looking to the other half of the house covered in the walls and I like to know the history of the area of what factories were there right near there there were so many of them at the time I’d like to know what was there then in the 19th century that house had so much history the hallway was full of doors each room had its own door that house haunts me till today when I was young I saw so many things and my mother too anyone has any information about this house please send me an email