A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. For many people of a certain generation, Brooklyn began and ended at the gates of Ebbets Field, where the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers played baseball. The years between ...

It was Brooklyn’s cherished landmark, where barriers were broken and the borough celebrated its first and only championship. Roger Kahn wrote in his 1972 novel “The Boys of Summer” that “Ebbets Field ...

An aerial shot of Ebbets Field in July 1954. (AP) Roy Campanella was left paralyzed by a car accident and didn't move west with the team, but he did make it to the demolition of Ebbets Field in Feb.

The last game ever played at Ebbets Field was on Sept. 24, 1957 — exactly 50 years ago Monday. The Dodgers won, but the joy of the crowd of just 6,700 people was extremely short-lived. You don’t need ...

This post courtesy of Explore Brooklyn, an all-inclusive guide to the businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions that make Brooklyn great. Even though they’ve been gone since 1957, it’s hard to get ...

One morning, about a dozen years ago, a rabbinical scholar woke up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a long fly ball away from the site of Ebbets Field, the home of the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers ...

This auction turned out to be a real home run. The original McKeever Place street sign that marked the location of Brooklyn’s fabled Ebbets Field sold for $58,852 during an online auction on Monday.

Citi Field was etched in Fred Wilpon's mind long before the groundbreaking in November 2006. It was embedded in boyhood memories of a time when Ebbets Field, the ballpark of Wilpon's youth, galvanized ...

They were presumed lost, one more casualty from a move that broke a borough's heart. But this week, a century-long odyssey will come to an end when the original 1912 blueprints for Ebbets Field, the ...

On April 9, 1913, the Brooklyn Superbas fell to the Phillies by a score of 1-0 in the first regular-season game ever played at Ebbets Field. Courtesy of the April 10, 1913, edition of the Lewiston ...