NEW YORK - A Brooklyn nonprofit based in DUMBO is mapping ... weren't identified before from FEMA and their base level flood maps that talk about a one-in-a-hundred flood zone," Eby says.

By John Freeman Gill New Yorkers are lucky that the exuberantly domed 1880 Weir Greenhouse in Brooklyn ... Using period photographs, fire insurance maps, old buildings department applications ...

further fueling Brooklyn’s upturn, which had already become the country’s third most populous city by 1880. Downtown Brooklyn’s retail, commercial and financial hub exploded, right at the ...