Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map

Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map - NYTimes.com

Using New Tools, Mapping Old Brooklyn

When the digital team at the Brooklyn Museum first looked at the New York images included on Historypin, a social sharing site for old images, something seemed to be missing.

“They had nothing in Brooklyn,” said Shelley Bernstein, the museum’s chief of technology.

The museum, meanwhile, has a lot in Brooklyn. Its collections include more than 3,500 images from the late 19th century, showing a city and borough long since passed; one whose citizens shared their avenues and parks withgeese, sheep and a buffalo named Mike.

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