The former Brooklyn Daily Eagle location at 30 Henry Street has placed its five new condo units on the market—before the structure has even reached ground level. “The Heights At 30 Henry Street” are listed by Corcoran with a range from $3.395 million for a 2,418sf 3BR to $4.95 million for a 2,861sf 3BR, 2.5BA […]
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Subway Sandwich Coming To Atlantic Avenue & Hicks
As Atlantic Avenue continues to redefine itself as a burgeoning retail and foodie destination for local businesses and more upscale shopping, we’re not sure that the local BID had fast food in mind as consummate gentrification. We saw a sign today in the storefront at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hicks Street promoting a […]
Atlantic Avenue BID Wants Input About Best Potential Retail Tenants
The Brooklyn Heights Association is circulating a poll on behalf of the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), asking area residents about the kind of businesses Atlantic Avenue needs “to be an even better neighborhood shopping street. The BID aims to bring in new businesses that will further enhance the mix of retail and variety […]
Barclay’s Center is Just the Beginning
Ongoing concerns about Barclays Center’s overall impact on surrounding borough neighborhoods—including Brooklyn Heights—could rise from a low roar to a full-on battle cry, given the mammoth long-term plan that developer Bruce Ratner has in mind for the area. Located at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, Barclays is merely the first part to be […]
Controversy Continues Over Brooklyn Bridge Park Fieldhouse
Design for the 115,000-square-foot cycling & recreational Fieldhouse planned near Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 has been tweaked, with additional space for sports other than cycling and fewer spectator seats for cycling events, but critics still want to apply the brakes to the controversial project. Greg Brooks, executive director of New York City Fieldhouse Inc., […]
Adams Street’s American BBQ And Beer Beefs Up For March Opening
American BBQ and Beer Co., is prepping an April 2013 launch, alongside Panera Bread and Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the Downtown Brooklyn border in the Adams Street Municipal Building at 345 Adams and Willoughby. The high-end eatery will include a wood-burning oven, smoke pit, seafood station with live lobster tanks, deep-fried turkey station, full bakery […]
Who Needs Manhattan: BK’s Fulton Mall Revival A Bona Fide Reality
When The New York Times pens a story on the revitalization of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, it heralds a watermark moment: sort of like, if the Times sniffs it as a reality, the revival has got to have credence. Its August 28 piece announced “National Retailers Discover a Brooklyn Mall.” Mind you—to toot our own […]
Italian Eatery Table 87 Preps Opening On Atlantic Avenue
As first tipped on BHB’s Open Thread Wednesday in late June, a new restaurant has been bubbling at 87 Atlantic Avenue, between Hicks and Henry streets in Brooklyn Heights. Now it appears that Italian eatery Table 87 is fixing to open its doors. According to Brownstoner, work permits and an application to sell wine & […]
Furniture Retailer Raymour & Flanigan Joins Fulton Mall Revolution
One after another… The big boom continues in Downtown Brooklyn, with yet another national retailer signing on to set up digs on Fulton Mall’s 17-block stretch from Boerum Place to Flatbush Avenue. Furniture chain Raymour & Flanigan will occupy a robust 28,000 square feet on the second floor at 490 Fulton Street. As BHB readers […]
Worst 4BR Floorplan Ever at 20 Henry?
Curbed has taken a look at the floor plan of one of the fancier apartments planned for 20 Henry Street, and quotes a tipster as saying “it’s one of the worst 4BR floorplans she’s seen”. Take a look here, and let us know what you think.
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