Books

Battling for Brooklyn Heights/ The Fight for New York’s First Historic District

Martin L. Schneider’s Battling for Brooklyn Heights/ The Fight for New York’s First Historic District is a compelling  eyewitness account of the passionate grassroots effort to protect one of the city’s most architecturally beautiful neighborhoods — the area that would become New York City’s first historic district.

Battling for Brooklyn Heights by Martin L. Schneider

Brooklyn! An Illustrated History

Explore the rich and colorful history of Brooklyn: Coney Island, the Dodgers, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Navy Yard, and more in Brooklyn! An Illustrated History, a book featuring 250 images of paintings, prints, memorabilia and objects from the BHS collections.

Brooklyn! An Illustrated History,  by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier

Williamsburg

Victor Lederer, with the cooperation of the Brooklyn Historical Society, compiled this 129 page volume featuring 187 images taken primarily from the BHS collection.

Williamsburg,  by Victor Lederer and the Brooklyn Historical Society

Copies of Brooklyn! An Illustrated History, Williamsburg and Battling for Brooklyn may be purchased at the museum or ordered from our Online Store.

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