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For $25 You Can Stand on a Freezing Roof Sipping a Cocktail from a Glass Carved from Ice

By on January 22, 2022 11:05 pm in 11201, Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Food and Drink, Weather, Wretched Excess

According to TimeOut the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, which we know as the building that blighted the view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Promenade until One Manhattan Square, aka “The Cheese Grater” (someone once commented on BHB, “It gives Pecorino Romano a bad name”) utterly trashed it, has found a way to make money […]

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Mega Yacht at Marina is a Movie Star

By on November 16, 2021 9:54 pm in 11201, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Maritime, Wretched Excess

If you’ve been to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade or Brooklyn Bridge Park lately you’ve almost certainly noticed a very large – 240 feet long, in fact – yacht docked at the ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina, near the foot of Joralemon Street. The photo, taken by your correspondent from the Promenade, shows its mast towering to the […]

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