Juice purveyor Erica Huss, co-founder of Blueprint Cleanse, has purchased one of the few remaining units at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, 360 Furman Street. Her $2.25 million waterfront condo is a 2-bedroom duplex, with entrance, living & dining rooms on the top floor, and the bedrooms plus a windowless family room on the lower level. […]
About Chuck Taylor
Journalist Chuck Taylor worked as a writer and Senior Editor at Billboard magazine for 14 years, has interviewed more than 500 entertainers and music executives, and penned front-page stories for Billboard about Celine Dion, Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, Elton John, Bette Midler, James Taylor, Tony Bennett and many more. He has been interviewed on an array of music and pop culture topics for ABC's “20/20,” “CBS Evening News,” CNN FN, VH1's “Behind the Music,” MTV, BBC and A&E's Biography"; and has been quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, TV Guide, People, Entertainment Weekly and numerous others. He is a voting member of NARAS (Grammy Awards).Author Archive | Chuck Taylor
Open Thread Wednesday, May Day 2013
The first of May was originally celebrated by European pagans as a day of fertility—for the first spring planting and… more personal exploits. In modern times, it’s typically a spring frolic, as well as a day of political protests, a saint’s feast day and an acknowledgment of organized labor. In many nations, May 1 is […]
Is Lena Dunham Leaving Brooklyn Heights?
It seemed kind of curious, from the start. Lena Dunham, pop culture “It” girl; Emmy-nominated creator, writer & star of HBO’s runaway hit series “Girls”; upcoming $3.7M Random House published author (and acclaimed member of the 2012 BHB Top 10)… settled in to an 800sf, $550,000 1-bedroom apartment at Mansion House on Hicks Street last […]
Montague Street Radio Shack Tuning Out By End Of August
The long-lived Radio Shack at 110 Montague Street is vacating the premises by the end of August, a store manager tells BHB, for the reason one might expect… a marked hike in monthly rent. The RS staffer told us that sales in the neighborhood don’t merit the increase, so the franchise has decided to say […]
The Watchtower Sells More Properties; 20 Henry Street Developer Shelly Listokin Buys
Within a couple months of the purported grand reopening of the new Bossert Hotel at 98 Montague Street—which the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society sold to David Bistricer & Joseph Chetrit for $81 million in November—the religious organization has sold off another portion of its property portfolio. In all, the organization’s real estate holdings included […]
After Less Than A Year, 40 Willow Place Mansion Flips For $7.65M
It was less than a year ago—in August 2012—when the 7,400sf, three-story, 45-foot-wide modernist mansion at 40 Willow Place sold for a wicked $7.35 million—a mere shaving off its October 2011 list price of $7.5M. Curbed reports that “Brooklyn’s most valuable townhouse” has again changed hands. About four months ago, it was back on the […]
Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher Announces Retirement As Plymouth Church’s Senior Minister
The Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher, Senior Minister of Plymouth Church, has announced his retirement from the historic Brooklyn Heights locale. He has been in the pulpit for 43 years, with nine years at Plymouth (75 Hicks Street). Rev. Al Bunis will serve as interim Senior Minister beginning October 1, following Rev. Fisher’s retirement at […]
Update: Phantom Kitty Still Missing
We reported April 22 about missing cat Phantom, who dashed into traffic after he escaped from a little girl’s arms at Sunday’s Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition’s Adoption Van event. Sadly, the 18-month-old kitty—who requires medication—remains AWOL. The Coalition’s Vicki Puluso offers an update: We’ve been haunting the streets of the Heights, and setting traps […]
Author Jennifer Miller’s Novel Marketing Campaign For Debut ‘Gadfly’
It was last July when BHB reported about Brooklyn Heights author Jennifer Miller’s unique marketing strategy for debut novel “The Year of the Gadfly,” as she hawked the book via a “novelade stand” at Montague & Henry streets. That was then. Miller has now joined forces with Togather, which lends assistance to connect authors with […]
City Comptroller John Liu: Library Properties Should Not Be Sold
Citizens Defending Libraries, the Brooklyn Heights-based organization aiming to protect city libraries “from sale, shrinkage and deliberate underfunding,” had an active week, including a story in The New York Times, coverage in The Nation and a sanctioned appearance at City Hall from City Comptroller John C. Liu. In a video posted by Liu’s office, he […]
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