At least now we know who to call to resurrect our window boxes: The Street.com: Find Your Green Thumb…: New Yorker Erin Combs managed to get the latter without the former — and if you're an urbanite who wants to add some natural beauty to your concrete existence, you'd do well to follow her example. […]
Archive | August, 2007
Swingin’ Brooklyn Heights
Who says Brooklyn Heights is uptight? Bartender needed for cocktail party: Looking for handsome bartender for cocktail party in apartment on Sunday, September 23rd. Duties: serve wine and beer and occasionally pass hors d'oeurves. May require bartender to be shirtless with bow tie.Please send picture–experience–and hourly rate. Hours will be from 4-9PM. Sadly, it appears […]
Gossip Girl Films in Nabe
This photo, snapped by Flickr photog Urch, shows a film crew set up near Packer shooting the new CW series Gossip Girl.
Flier Flap
The Brooklyn Eagle reports today on a very "First World Problem" facing residents of Brooklyn Heights and the rest of New York state — unwanted advertising fliers in your doorway. Brooklyn Eagle: Fliers Legislation…: Most homeowners are quick to toss away those mounds of unsolicited fliers and advertisements that gather at their doorsteps. But homeowner […]
Nabe Associations Gang Up on Walentas
New York Post: Dumbo Towers Foes Team Up: The DUMBO Neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights and Fulton Ferry Landing associations issued a joint statement in opposition of David and Jed Walentas' proposed $200 million, 400-apartment, middle-school and retail project that would run seven- to 17-stories high along Water, Dock and Front streets.
Open Thread Wednesday 8/22/07
Plenty to discuss this week — North Heights food "scene"… en fuego? (Call it NoHe, Northe, NoBro…) NYUber Alles? Boccelism cured in FloydNY summer league… will teams quit whinin'? Don't forget it's another edition of Dick Swizzle's Sudden Death Game Show tonight at Magnetic Field! Laundromat…. need a laundromat. And from around the interweb: Blue […]
Eagle – NoHe Food Scene is Hot
The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the North Heights food scene is booming (just like we did in March). The paper focuses its piece mostly on the reinvented "Corner of Cranberry" ventures, notably the recently opened Oven. It touches briefly upon the real drivers of this renaissance — Jack the Horse Tavern and Le Petit Marche […]
Stirred, Not Shaken
Despite the fact that some "regular" folks have been completely screwed by over extended banks pulling their mortgages at the last minute recently, the IHT reports that in the Hamptons, it's business as usual. Sure a broker or two may be crying in his Cristal over the bumpy market — one shrink tells the paper […]
“Another Day on Willow Street” Proves Rewarding
Another Day on Willow Street, a play set in the Heights and written by Park Slope resident Frank Anthony Polito (read Mtierney's interview with "FranQ," as his friends call him, here), is now part of the New York Fringe Festival, and being staged at the Players Theater, 115 Macdougal Street, in Greenwich Village. There are […]
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