30 Years: We’ve come a long way in 30 years. Comments (4).

Downtown: When we started covering Brooklyn, Downtown was holding on as a major hub for high-end retailers like the flagship location of Abraham & Strauss or the Martin’s on Fulton Street. Comments (2).

DUMBO: For 21 years, the St. Ann’s Warehouse performance space was in Brooklyn Heights before it moved to DUMBO in 2000. Comment.

30 Years: Our photographer Tom Callan has been shooting Brooklyn for longer than a mob henchman. And he’s got the scars to prove it. Whether getting beaten up by Mike Tyson in 1998 or by thugs at the notorious Club Wildfyre in the late 1980s, Callan has been getting in people’s faces for years. Comment.

Fort Greene: Danny Simmons used to hang out in the clubs on DeKalb Avenue back in the 1980s, before he moved to the neighborhood in 1992. Comments (1).

Park Slope: When Clem Labine, one of the first so-called “brownstoners,” moved to Park Slope, it was vastly different from the way that the neighborhood is commonly conceived these days. There was “nary a stroller to be seen,” he said, Comment.

30 Years: Our first editor, Beverly Cheuvront, and our first features editor, Laurie Sue Brockway, sat down with our founding pubisher, Ed Weintrob, to share some memories, a few laughs, and expense-account pizza. Comment.

Williamsburg: Brooklyn Brewery beer is now a premier Friday night lubricant for hipsters and other young people who flood the bars and clubs that glut the major avenues of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights: To see Brooklyn Heights now is practically to see it as it was 30 years ago, if not more. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Buddy Scotto, a local funeral home director and community activist, once considered leaving Carroll Gardens and moving to Long Island. But his father didn’t want to move to the suburbs, as many New Yorkers did as the city was heading downhill in the 1960s. So Scotto stayed, too. Comments (8).

Red Hook: Red Hook was hit hard by the failed containerization plan of the 1960s. In many ways, it’s still struggling to recover. Comment.

30 Years: I spoke this week for the first time in 30 years with Tom Bongiorno. Unbeknownst to him, his family played important roles in The Brooklyn Paper’s conception. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Robert Moses executed a one-two punch on Bay Ridge. With a right, he crossed the Gowanus Expressway through the neighborhood, parting it from Sunset Park. With the left, he hit Bay Ridge with an uppercut in the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Comments (3).

30 Years: If Bruce Ratner gets shovels in the ground by Dec. 31, this long-stalled project might actually happen. Comments (4).

30 Years: It’s taken nearly 30 years for a park to be built on the old Port Authority piers. Work is almost done on a tiny bit of a glorious, $350-million waterfront greenspace to rival Central Park. Will it ever be done? Find out in our 60th anniversary issue! Comments (1).

30 Years: Downtown has come a long way since it was a high-end retail hub. It may get back there someday. Comment.

30 Years: Will the Canal ever be clean? Of course it will! Mayor Gaynor promised as much in 1911. Comments (4).

30 Years: From swimming hole, to model of urban decay, to hipster hangout to...swimming hole. McCarren Park Pool is a great New York story. Comments (1).

30 Years: Not everything that looks bombed out is necessarily bad — particularly out on Coney Island. Comment.