Recommended Reading: Local Lore Edition
Some interesting area posts today:
- DumboNYC relates how DUMBO got its name. Hint: the name was first intended to keep yuppies out of the neighborhood
- Gowanus Lounge reports on nuptials in the Litchfield family–whose patriarch long ago envisioned the Gowanus Canal
- The mysterious facade at 37 Carroll St.–mystery solved (Lost City)