Tales, Anecdotes and Trivia

A bit more than 71 years ago, on August 7, 1943, a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura aircraft took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn at 4.30...

Helicopters were carefully introduced to the U.S. Armed Forces during the latter half of the Second World War, and Brooklyn played an import...

The largest battle of the American War of Independence was fought on Long Island, no more than a brisk walk east of our neighborhoods. It ...