Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2014 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. Throughout Brooklyn’s history, a lot of things have come and gone, but one of the greatest ...
The Brooklyn Navy Yard will host its seventh annual Wallabout Wonderland holiday market on Dec. 7 and 8, featuring more than 200 local vendors for a weekend of festive shopping and family-friendly ...
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. Wallabout Market in 1940. Photo via the Library of Congress ...
A naming dispute is simmering over what to call the area between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Myrtle Avenue. “No one near me calls it Wallabout,” said Jennifer, who lives on Cumberland Street a ...
Among the Brooklyn neighborhoods that are being pushed for landmarking, one that doesn't get much press is Wallabout. It's an area north of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, near the Navy Yard, between ...
The historic beauty of a swath of Civil War-era homes in an isolated corner of Fort Greene has finally been recog-nized. More than 200 properties located within five blocks of Wallabout bounded by ...
Invigorated by the redevelopment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Wallabout neighborhood on Washington Avenue is experiencing a commercial renaissance, the Wall Street Journal reported. Once known as ...
Capsys Corp. employees manufacture modular housing units at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Renewed activity at the Navy Yard has revitalize the Wallabout section of Brooklyn ...
The small, semi-industrial Brooklyn neighborhood of Wallabout is often overshadowed by its neighbors in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene; but the historic neighborhood, which takes its name from Wallabout ...
The Bloomberg administration is turning its historic preservation scope to mid-Brooklyn. On Tuesday, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to start the designation process for two ...
Wallabout may not have the name recognition of Dumbo, but with a crush of new retail and residential developments, the district near Brooklyn’s Navy Yard is poised to steal some of the luster of its ...