There’s a new site celebrating old Brooklyn.
, created by the New-York Historical Society, is intended as virtual museum tour of the borough’s historic neighborhoods.
Users have a choice of searching the origin of street names — there are 130 so far — or clicking on an interactive map highlighting the six towns that once made up Brooklyn.
The site features black-and-white photographs, collected by the Society’s library, that show daily life in old Brooklyn — complete with horse-drawn carriages, Victorian-style houses, and of course, the Brooklyn Bridge.
A Google map also pops up within the web window, comparing the place searched to its current location.
A class of second graders from Public School 261 in Brooklyn recently traveled to the Society’s Central Park headquarters to give the site, financed in part by Councilman David Yassky, a trial run.
