A couple years ago, I posted an item about how the television series "Miami Vice," in 1985, was allowed to blow up up an old b...

Over the years, I've heard a remembrance here and there of the Happy Hour Movie Theatre, or of two movie theatres that lined Columbia S...

Not much information to go along with this lovely image of Columbia Street, between Kane and Degraw Streets, circa 1955. I'm guessing...

Here, in the latest of the wonderful stash of old Columbia Street images recently claimed from obscurity by Freebird Books, is a shot of...

Here's the latest shot from a cache of old 1960s photos of the Columbia Street, Brooklyn, area recently uncovered by Freebird Books ...

As I mentioned in a past yesterday, I  was recently contracted by the owner of   Freebird Books , a fine indy used book store on Columbia...

I was recently contracted by the owner of Freebird Books , a fine indy used book store on Columbia Street, near Kane. He told me he had ...

I've written about the large standing clock that used to adorn Columbia Street in Brooklyn before, but this photograph—the best I'...

A local tipster informed me the other day that the great old sign to the Sokol Bros. Furniture Store—the Columbia Street institution that...

The old Sokol Bros. Furniture building on Columbia Street in Brooklyn is all but demolished. Just a few bits of brick and the frames of a...

Back in 2008, L&M Equities purchased the old buildings at the corner of Columbia and Warren in Cobble Hill West, and quickly tore them ...

Many changes are coming to Columbia Street in Brooklyn lately. Yesterday, I reported that the one-time bustling commercial lane had lost on...

Due to the numerous calamities that have befallen Columbia Street during the last 50 years—the big sewer dig of the 1970s; the erection of ...

The classic old Frank's Dept. Store sign on Union Street near Hicks in Brooklyn, which has remained even though Frank's has gone th...

My Post Office branch on Columbia Street in Brooklyn. I like the sense of civic duty! But I dislike the, well, lack of sense of city duty. ...

After a month or more of not being open for business, but not exactly being out of business, Fultummy's, the erratic sandwich place on...

The Moonshine Bar is in good hands. Last month came the worrisome news that the Columbia Street bar—which contains an interior and an old...

Fultummy's, the erratic but strangely endearing sandwich joint on Columbia Street in Brooklyn, appears to have sliced its last loaf. It...

A reader tipped us off to the sad news that the Moonshine Bar on Columbia Street near Hamilton in Brooklyn is closing. According to their F...

The area around Columbia Street, west of Carroll Gardens, has needed a bike shop ever since the one on Union Street near Hick decamped for ...