150 years of coverage · 29 papers · 92,809 mentions
Every time “Windsor Place,” “Windsor Pl,” or “Windsor Terrace” appeared in the Brooklyn newspapers between 1843 and 1998. Peak year: 1922 (3,625 mentions).
The block’s footprint in the papers grew slowly through the 1880s, accelerated dramatically between 1900 and 1920 as the row houses filled with families, and peaked in the early 1920s when the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran the densest neighborhood coverage of any New York paper.
The decline after WWII reflects both the consolidation of New York City newspapers (the Eagle stopped publishing in 1955) and the shift of social announcements away from the daily press. What you’re seeing here is the trace of a block’s life in the printed record — births, marriages, obituaries, real-estate notices, and small dramas — over a century and a half.