Brooklyn Heights resident Steven Rinella may be an urban dweller, but by trade, he’s a hunter. The former host of Travel Channel’s adventure & food show “The Wild Within,” spends 150 days per year traveling the world, hunting Dall sheep in Alaska and Himalayan tahr in New Zealand, among countless other varieties. The rest of […]
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Columbia Heights Residences Profiled In New York Times
The New York Times offers a Streetscapes profile of a handful of residences along Brooklyn Heights’ Columbia Heights, once deemed “the most fashionable street in Brooklyn,” which, according to the Times’ headline, is “Still in Fashion, a Century Later.” Its earliest residents in 1900 included doctor & inventor Edward R. Squibb, Lows, Pierreponts and other […]
Barclays Center: What Does It Mean For 21st-Century Brooklyn?
While reporting on the ever-controversial Barclays Center across from Atlantic Terminal, is typically outside of Brooklyn Heights Blog’s purview, a lengthy essay in New York magazine is worth exploring, with its analysis of the impact of the arena on the future of the borough as a whole. Barclays “is now part of the new Brooklyn […]
Filmmaker Heather Quinlan Discusses Her Breakup Cookbook Blog In NY Daily News
BHB contributor, filmmaker and Brooklyn Heights resident Heather Quinlan, who recently completed documentary “If These Knishes Could Talk,” is interviewed in a New York Daily News story about… ice cream. The piece hinges on the fact that Jon Stewart offered a pint of Ben & Jerry’s to console Robert Pattinson on “The Daily Show” after […]
Brooklyn Heights Rez Paul Giamatti Promotes Film ‘Cosmopolis’ On ABC’s ‘GMA’
Emmy- and Golden-globe winner actor—and Brooklyn Heights’ own—Paul Giamatti appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday, talking with George Stephanopoulos about his new film with Robert Pattinson, “Cosmopolis.” Giamatti describes the film as “science fiction, black comedy, satire.” Also appearing in the flick, which is in theaters now, are Juliette Binoche and Sarah Gadon. See […]
Downtown Brooklyn: ‘Hottest Neighborhood In The Borough’?
The New York Daily News offers its take on the burgeoning growth taking place in Brooklyn Heights’ adjoining neighborhood, titled “What’s behind Downtown Brooklyn success story?” It concludes that an influx of college kids at 11 area schools, trendy stores, novel restaurants and tech start-ups “taking advantage of short-term leases” have fueled an economic boom […]
BBP Condo-Hotel Architect Appears Mindful Of ‘Iconic’ Design Befitting Park Setting
It sounds as if the chief architect for the 200-room hotel and 159-condo project planned by Toll Brothers Inc. and Starwood Capital for Brooklyn Bridge Park is actually mindful of the fact that the controversial build-out is anything but your typical urban multi-use development. Architect Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel Architects tells the Wall Street […]
Is Brooklyn Bridge Park Responsible For A Rez Boom In Brooklyn Heights?
According to a blissfully rosy story in The New York Post, the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park is not only about a year from being 60% complete, but deserves credit for a residential real estate boom in both Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO. First, the optimistic factoids regarding BBP’s 60% completion: The Post assures that “a sports […]
Heights Resident Harry Kelber Plans Run For AFL-CIO Prez… At Age 99
Consider this guy the antithesis of Brooklyn Heights hipster residents Lena Dunham or Björk. Harry Kelber has announced his intention to run for President of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor organization… at the age of 98. Longtime labor activist Kelber, an outspoken critic of the AFL-CIO, announced his candidacy late last month on the […]
Quote Of The Day: ‘Brooklyn Is More Major, More Important And More Historical Than You Realize’
Just as a good lot of us damn Yankees might associate New Zealand with kiwis and koalas, it appears folks down south—way down south—have an equally simplified, if not tarnished view of Brooklyn. A rallying post on that nation’s leading news website Stuff.co.nz, explains the bounty of Manhattan’s borough to the east in a fawning […]
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