The Brooklyn Book Festival will take place in Borough Hall Park on September 12 and feature this star studded line-up of authors and guests: Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, Paul Auster, Nelson George, Sarah Silverman, Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, John Ashbery, Rosanne Cash, Paul Krugman, Colson Whitehead, Francine Prose, Dennis Lehane, Per Petterson, Esmeralda Santiago, Pete […]
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Arby’s Bails Out of Historic Gage and Tollner Space
Brownstoner reports that after much fuss and LPC arm twisting, Arby’s has called it quits at 372 Fulton Street. The fast food chain had meticulously crafted its interior to preserve the landmarked Gage and Tollner space but clearly it didn’t attract enough business to keep going. The store opened in January of this year. Maybe […]
A Stroll Down Fulton Street
Homer’s pal/Brooklyn Heights resident/ Celine Dion expert / journalist/ biographer/ census worker Chuck “the Smoking Nun” Taylor takes a walk down Fulton Street and contemplates. He also Photoshops a few pictures (above) to look like Superfly-era snapshots: Smoking Nun: Its gentrification is an ongoing work in progress, but for now it is still inundated with […]
Tree Stalker Nabbed
A man described as “one seriously disturbed individual” was recently caught after police and local bloggers followed his trail of torn branches. The assailant was identified as Steve Maynard, a Prospect Heights resident who had been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation, then released only to vandalize the trees on Livingston St. from Flatbush Ave. to […]
Save Our Buses Protest!
Here’s the official press release from Brooklyn Beep Markowitz on today’s protest regarding cuts to the B51, B39 and other bus routes:
Brooklyn’s Next Boomtown is Next Door
According to Rich Calder in The New York Post, to find Brooklyn’s newest hot residential area, you need only cross Cadman Plaza or Court Street between Tillary Street and Atlantic Avenue:
Trolleys: Our Past; Our Future?
As reported in The Brooklyn Paper last week, workers installing new water and sewer lines near the foot of Old Fulton Street encountered some trolley tracks that had been buried under asphalt for many years. After consulting with city officials and an archaeologist, the contractor “ripped up the tracks and threw them in the trash.” […]
Get a free room from HGTV!
Have a room you want to fix up? Want some friendly competition with your neighbors? You could be on HGTV’s newest home renovation series, Battle on the Block. Get the details at Cobble Hill Blog.
Fire in a Crowded Theater: The Sequel!
It’s ba-aaaaack! Kernel panic returned to the UA Cinemas at 106 Court St. tonight in an incident nearly identical to one that happened last month.
CB2 Meeting Tomorrow Night
Summer is over and that means that Community Board 2 meetings are about to resume. Tomorrow night’s general meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the Great Room at the Alliance of Resident Theaters (ART/NY) at 138 South Oxford Street, between Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place. On the agenda are presentations from the commanding […]
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