
Books
Search for books and periodicals about Brooklyn history, politics, development, and culture.
CBH Lobby Service
The Center for Brooklyn History is now open for grab and go Brooklyn Public Library service in the lobby, Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm. Access to our archives and in-person events remain suspended. Please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic.
CBH Lobby Service
The Center for Brooklyn History is now open for grab and go Brooklyn Public Library service in the lobby, Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm. Access to our archives and in-person events remain suspended. Please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic.
The Center for Brooklyn History makes its collections available to all researchers. We welcome scholars, teachers and students, genealogists, artists, documentarians, and anyone else curious about the history of Brooklyn.
While New Yorkers shelter at home, please take advantage of CBH’s digital resources by visiting our Remote Research Guide.
Search for books and periodicals about Brooklyn history, politics, development, and culture.
The archival collections document the history of Brooklyn and Long Island from the 1600s to the present. Request an appointment to view an archival collection by emailing [email protected] at least two days in advance.
The oral history collections provide evidence about the lives of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Brooklyn residents.
The photography collections at CBH document Brooklyn and Long Island from the 1850s to the present.
CBH’s art and artifact collections represent four centuries of Brooklyn’s visual and material culture. A selection are available to search online.
Explore digitized film, video, and audio recordings from our collections.
The Long-Island Star (1809-1840), the Brooklyn Daily Evening Star (1841), and the Brooklyn Evening Star (1841-1863) are keyword searchable at newspapers.com.
This collection documents Brooklyn land ownership from the late seventeenth century to 1896. Organized by block number, these abstracts show seller (grantor) and buyer (grantee) information.