“Can you please spell ‘Schiaparelli?’” 🪡 New York Fashion Week festivities are happening around the city, which reminds us… we have a fashionable piece of history right here in our galleries. In our latest Highlights Tour of Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200, Abigail Dansiger, Director of Libraries and Archives, shares the story of how this French costume doll designed by Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli found its way to Brooklyn along with 48 other dolls in 1949 as a gift from the Fr

AT RISK!! Prince 👑 So little time and so young. Only with us a little over two weeks and already the stress of the shelter has taken it’s toll on him. At just 9 months, a baby, the loud and overwhelming environment has manifested itself in Prince digging at his kennel door, hypersalivating and stress pulling on the leash. But outside, we see a very different version of this beautiful boy. He is desperate for attention, soliciting petting, staying as close as possible to us without actually clim

When a Brooklyn man found himself in distress in the water at Canarsie Pier, a local fisherman jumped in after him & held him above the water before NY’s Finest & Bravest arrived. NYPD Special Operations ESU officers wasted no time to enter the water, and with help from @FDNY personnel, brought both men back to safety. We thank this good Samaritan for seeing something and doing something. Watch the heroism of your officers, firefighters, and fellow New Yorker in the body-worn camera footage. | N