Wallabout: 5 things you probably didn't know about one of Brooklyn's most interesting streets

… one short block boasts an extraordinary  mix of clapboard homes that predate the citys 1852  ban on wooden homes for … usually to downtown Manhattan For them Wallabout was the suburbs The homes they lived in were in the Greek Revival Gothic Revival Italianate and English cottage style a textbook mix of the most popular …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 12, 2015 - 12:59PM