When the St. Clair diner, at the corner of Smith and Atlantic, underwent a renovation a few years back, the owners uncovered an old metal...

A peculiar Greenstreets program has cropped up on Smith Street in Brooklyn, near the Bergen subway stop. It's an elevated, stone-lined ...

Over the past six months, a number of nice people have recommended that I visit Boat, a bar on Smith Street in Boerum Hill. So I tucked the...

Recently, the old Professional Building at 299 Smith Street was vacated and gutted, removing the low-ceilinged warren of doctors' offi...

Came across a tax photo of old 229 Dean Street , former mystery house of Boerum Hill, now in the safe hands of a new owner. Rather looks l...

Earlier this month, I posted something about the seedy goings-on at 229 Dean Street , an island of weirdness on any otherwise stately blo...

Explosions, crack house rumors, Sainted Mary, police vans, missing air conditioners, severed Barbie heads. What goes on at 229 Dean Street? ...

That thing on Warren and Smith is almost done. I don't know what it's called, or what it is, but they been working on it for more th...

Lowdown Boerum Hill dive Hank's Saloon is putting its second floor to good use as a billboard. For Health House. Nice synchronicity. You...

This is the eighth of Lost City's guides to the shards of living history and cultural potency that remain in various New York neighborho...

It was back in March 2007 that I first discovered the wild and wonderful bejeweled address of 108 Wyckoff Street in Boerum Hill, which arti...

I sometime feel people don't appreciate the City's unique and timeworn places because they don't take the time to look around an...

Readers of this blog may remember, about last year at this time, an item about a curious display built into the facade of a Boerum Hill hom...

As South Brooklyn folk know, the old St. Clair Restaurant at the corner of Atlantic and Smith was recently given a redo, complete with shiny...

The old New St. Clair Restaurant sign is gone, and so is the old, old, original St. Clair sign that was uncovered briefly, and here is the ...

The old St. Clair Restaurant—which recently closed after 87 years of occupying a corner at Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street, and will reopen...

No. 229 Dean Street in Boerum Hill offers something in the way of visual interest its neighbors don't: a humorous/blasphemous (depending...