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Heights’ Resident Paul Giamatti Filming ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′ In DUMBO

By on May 14, 2013 11:58 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Movie shoots

“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ is filming in DUMBO this week, as the neighborhood was taken over by police cars, the “Midtown bus,” crowds of extras and all sorts of whacko action. McBrooklyn offers pics, including lead Andrew Garfield—and Brooklyn Heights’ own Paul Giamatti, who plays villain “The Rhino.” In the film, his alter ego is [...]

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NY1 Interviews Heather Quinlan and Knishes Crew

By on May 3, 2013 9:12 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, movies, News

Your correspondent glanced out his window this morning and saw a NY1 mobile unit parked on the Promenade, so grabbed his camera and headed downstairs. When he got there, he was pleasantly surprised to find BHB’s own Heather Quinlan (second from right in photo) and other members of the crew for her film If These [...]

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Dedication Of Brooklyn Heights’ Adam Yauch Park Draws National Media Attention

By on May 2, 2013 5:15 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, News

On the eve of Friday’s official dedication of the Adam Yauch Park—which up to now has been known as Palmetto Playground—the national media is aflame with coverage of the renaming. Yauch grew up in Brooklyn Heights on State Street before achieving fame as a member of the Beastie Boys. The musician, filmmaker and activist died [...]

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Is Lena Dunham Leaving Brooklyn Heights?

By on May 1, 2013 12:01 am in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Other Brooklyn, Real Estate

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 [...]

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Report: Palmetto Playground To Be Renamed Adam Yauch Park On Friday

By on April 28, 2013 11:05 pm in Brooklyn History, Celebrity Residents

BHB sources claim that the Palmetto Playground will officially be renamed the Adam Yauch Playground this week. A ceremony to usher in the new name will reportedly be held this Friday May 3. Yauch, who grew up in Brooklyn Heights before achieving fame as a member of the Beastie Boys died on May 4, 2012 [...]

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Celeb Sniffing: Are Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem Heading To Heights?

By on April 26, 2013 4:22 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Real Estate

The New York Daily News reveals in its Confidential column that A-list celebs Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were spotted apartment hunting in Brooklyn Heights. NYDN: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were recently spotted apartment-hunting in Brooklyn Heights. The duo were looking at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, at 360 Furman St., where they checked out [...]

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Celebs Aren’t Just Digging The Heights: Making Moves To South Brooklyn

By on April 8, 2013 12:04 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Other Brooklyn, Real Estate

While Brooklyn Heights may boast the likes of residents Paul Giamati, Björk, Lena Dunham, Nate Silver and a boatload of writers & artists, more celebs are setting up house in South Brooklyn—Cobble Hill, Park Slope, and Boerum Hill.
Read more on the Cobble Hill Blog.

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The Lena Dunham Effect: Brooklyn Heights’ Resident Fosters Boom In Greenpoint

By on April 5, 2013 2:23 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents

Lena Dunham—2012 BHB Top 10 honoree and creator, star, writer, et al, of HBO’s “Girls”—may lead a quiet existence at her Mansion House digs in Brooklyn Heights, but apparently she’s having such an impact on pop culture that a boom is taking place in once-sleepy Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the setting of the hipster series. Stories have [...]

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Brooklyn Heights’ Arthur Miller: GQ Deems ‘Back In Style’

By on March 17, 2013 12:10 am in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Shopping

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Brooklyn Heights resident Arthur Miller was certainly a stylish gent in his time (1915-2005), and the March 2013 issue of GQ pays homage to a revival of the “Arthur Miller Look.” The men’s fashion mag writes, “This spring, fashion designers rediscovered the playwright so dapper he landed Marilyn Monroe. Miller’s stripped-down, [...]

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Paul Giamatti Rumored to Play Rhino in Next Spiderman Flick

By on February 2, 2013 8:20 pm in Celebrity Residents

Actor/the Most Famous Man in Brooklyn Heights Paul Giamatti is rumored to be in talks to play supervillian Rhino in the next Spiderman movie according to the Hollywood Reporter:

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