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‘Real Deal’ Profiles Heights’ Resident & Highbrow Broker Elizabeth Stribling

By Chuck Taylor on May 15, 2012 10:31 am in Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Profiles

Elizabeth Stribling, founder of Stribling & Associates real-estate brokerage, made headlines in 2008 when she relocated from the Upper East Side’s East 84th Street to Brooklyn Heights, in a record-setting $6.6 million 12th-floor 3,442SF pad at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. This month, she is profiled in The Real Deal in a story titled “Stribling: The Next Generation,” which focuses on her company’s “branding overhaul aimed at modernizing the 32-year-old firm’s somewhat stuffy” persona.

In the piece, Stribling reflects, “No one could believe I was moving to Brooklyn,” although she has certainly developed an affinity for the borough. Continue Reading →

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WSJ: ‘A Storm Is Raging Over Plan For Brooklyn Bridge Park’

By Chuck Taylor on April 16, 2012 11:36 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Development, Profiles

Is the sloooowly buregoning Brooklyn Bridge Park designed to encourage the interaction of those who visit the waterfront oasis—or is it little more than a handsome front lawn for wealthy homeowners, alienated from the surrounding community and lacking those things that make urban public spaces dynamic? That’s the question posed in a Wall Street Journal story Monday, titled “Conflict In Park Plans.”

The piece leads a more or less academic discussion over aesthetic disagreements between developers of the half-completed park’s future. Portions of Pier 1 and Pier 6 opened in 2010, with a new pier and footbridge slated for the latter part of 2012—while a majority remains on the drawing board. Continue Reading →

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Michael Randazzo, Ubiquitous Brooklyn Heights Resident, Interviewed on Channel 2 News

By Claude Scales on March 10, 2012 11:39 am in Profiles, Video

Some readers spotted the Channel 2 News crew on the Promenade Thursday, interviewing passers-by about the unseasonably balmy weather. One of those was Heights resident Michael Randazzo, who was out walking his dog Enzo. Karl Junkersfeld has made a video that incorporates Michael’s moment on citywide news, as well as footage of him in other settings. Video after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights People: Dan Horan of Five Acre Farms

By Julie Kanfer on November 14, 2011 6:31 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Food, Profiles, Shopping

To be clear, Five Acre Farms is not a farm at all. There is no pastoral landscape where cows graze, no ever-present smell of manure percolating the air. There is no big red barn, no silo, no wooden sign on an oak tree announcing that Five Acre Farms is two miles down the road to the left. That’s because Dan Horan, the President and CEO of Five Acre Farms, lives on Montague Terrace, right here in Brooklyn Heights. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights People: Dr. Dylan Kwait

By Julie Kanfer on October 14, 2011 2:36 pm in Fun, Profiles

In many ways, Brooklyn Heights resident Dylan Kwait is your typical psychotic person who decides to run a marathon: he’s young (33), active, and, as a radiology resident at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, barely able squeeze running into his hectic schedule. But in one really big way, Kwait is a rarity among marathoners, having been diagnosed five years ago with type-1 diabetes, a condition he controls by giving himself daily insulin shots to make up for his body’s deficit. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights People: Zak and Gillette Wing of Holler & Squall

By Julie Kanfer on August 12, 2011 9:06 am in Brooklyn Heights, Profiles

Contrary to popular opinion, Atlantic Avenue west of Hicks Street is good for more than just a cheap brew at Montero’s, or a visit to the beautiful park at Pier Six. Turns out this oft-forgotten stretch of road is prime territory for obtaining a six-foot-long stuffed zebra from Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut estate.

“I told Zak that if he didn’t buy it, I wouldn’t love him anymore,” Gillette Wing said of the oversized animal her husband Zak eventually agreed to purchase, though she admitted, “It’s kind of a hard sell.” Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights Goes Wild with Julie Feinstein

By Julie Kanfer on May 12, 2011 11:06 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Nature, Profiles

Julie Feinstein

Julie Feinstein has lived in Brooklyn Heights for 20 years, she thinks, but it is only in the last 18 months or so that she’s been able to really enjoy whatever it is that comprises this neighborhood’s urban wildlife.

“This park has been fabulous,” she said, standing in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s grassy Pier One. She particularly enjoys the ponds, where she has seen various birds, insects, and the occasional muskrat. Last year, she watched as the first generation of dragonflies colonized one of the ponds.

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A Tiger in the Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights

By Heather Quinlan on April 1, 2011 2:43 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Food, Profiles, Video

I recently met Cheryl Tan, Brooklyn Heights resident, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen, and all-around great gal. Cheryl’s work is part memoir and part cookbook, and details her travels to Singapore, where she reconnected with her family through cooking. More information about the book is on her site, and also in the above video. Enjoy!

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Brooklyn Heights People: Theater 2020′s Judith Jarosz and David Fuller

By Julie Kanfer on March 22, 2011 8:30 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Music, Profiles, Theater

If Judith Jarosz’s infectious energy and David Fuller’s quiet confidence are any indication of what Theatre 2020: Visions for a New Millennium will be like, then expect their new theater endeavor to be serious, and seriously entertaining.
“We look at everything like an opportunity,” Jarosz, whose personality is as fiery as her mane of red hair, said recently over a cup of coffee at Heights Café. “That’s the kind of people we are.” Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights People: Valerie Frankel

By Julie Kanfer on March 14, 2011 9:57 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Literature, Profiles

Valerie Frankel—author, blogger, journalist—has lived in Brooklyn Heights since 1992, and in that time has watched the neighborhood change dramatically. Which can be both a blessing and a curse.

“Where Heights Café is now, there used to be this really old-fashioned, greasy diner, where the underside of the table had an inch worth of gum,” she recalled over the phone a few days ago, waxing nostalgic about Montague Street. “The place you go for French fries with brown gravy at midnight.” Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Tech: Big Spaceship’s Joshua Hirsch

By Julie Kanfer on January 25, 2011 10:15 am in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Tech, DUMBO, Profiles

It’s strange to think of a company founded in the year 2000 as a member of an “old guard,” but by DUMBO (aka the New York Digital District) standards, that’s exactly what Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency, is.

“It was all unfinished, raw space,” Joshua Hirsch, Big Spaceship’s Minister of Technology, said of their first home at 70 Washington Street, where a decrepit bathroom down the hall once showed up on a website they were creating for the horror movie “Identity.”
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Brooklyn Heights People: David Adjmi

By Julie Kanfer on October 28, 2010 11:13 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Profiles

David Adjmi

Brooklyn Heights resident David Adjmi was one of ten scribes, and the only playwright, awarded the 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award last night. His initial reaction on the honor? “I was really gobsmacked when they told me,” Adjmi said, as only a writer can.

Unlike so many other distinctions for which writers vie, the Whiting Writers’ Award, which comes with a $50,000 prize, is decided by anonymous nomination. “It’s an absolutely extraordinary thing,” Adjmi, 37, said, and described his giddy behavior on hearing the news. “I couldn’t stop laughing…I must have sounded out of my mind.”
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A Visit to Gleason’s Gym

By Heather Quinlan on October 27, 2010 8:11 am in DUMBO, Fun, Profiles, Sports, Video

Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo was one of those places I’d always wanted to visit, but never quite checked off my list. A couple months ago I finally got the opportunity when I covered the De La Hoya press conference, and I was completely hooked. Oscar De La Hoya, Paulie Malignaggi, AND I scored an interview with the great Bert Sugar. I had to go back!

Owner Bruce Silverglade and his staff were terrific, and I was allowed to stay as long as I liked, which took me by surprise, as I’m used to being shooed away after a couple minutes—I got so much footage my battery nearly exploded. So come take a tour of the gym, lead by a trainer called Country.

At Gleason’s Gym from Heather Quinlan on Vimeo.

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Brooklyn Heights People: Caitlin Pasko

By Julie Kanfer on August 24, 2010 1:04 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Fun, Nightlife, Profiles

Caitlin Pasko, a Brooklyn Heights newbie and BHB reader, also wears the hat of songstress. As Lacrymosa, she’ll perform at The Living Room on September 5, 19, and 26 at 8pm in the first residency of her career. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights People: David Kramer

By Julie Kanfer on July 9, 2010 11:30 am in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Development, Profiles, Real Estate

Raised in what he calls the small town of the Upper West Side, Brooklyn Heights resident David Kramer now builds small towns of his own. Sort of.

As a principal in the Hudson Companies, a real estate developer of rental and sale units around New York City, Kramer has garnered much attention lately for the innovative Inside Third & Bond blog on Brownstoner.com. Started 138 weeks ago, the blog has detailed an abnormally honest account of the building, marketing, and selling of Third + Bond, a townhouse-style condominium apartment complex in Brooklyn.

“The world has become so transparent, and blogs are a manifestation of that,” Kramer said over the phone from his office during a recent workday. By interacting with Brownstoner readers, many of whom are real estate junkies and prospective buyers, Kramer was, he said, “attempting to lead the parade, versus being dressed up at the end of the parade.” Continue Reading →

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