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Open Thread Wednesday 5/28/08

By Homer Fink on May 28, 2008 7:51 am in Brooklyn Heights

What’s on your mind? Plenty of active discussions going on now, so feel free to use this space for anything else you’d like to bring up.

Comment away!

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Bossert Lobby

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 5:33 pm in Photos

BHB Photo Club pic by joshderr via flickr

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Yesterday’s News is Tomorrow’s Fish and Chip Paper or Kuntzman Greets Fleet at Floyd

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 5:01 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Fun, News, Nightlife

We kid the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman, because we love the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman. There we said it. He may think we bloggers are a bunch of nudnicks but such is life. But seriously, you think anyone at Courier-Life or the Brooklyn Eagle is this much fun? (Hmmm… that Krogius guy might be a barrel of laughs, however.) In his latest “podcast” or as we like to call it a 21st Century Bubba Meisa, Gersh visits with some British sailors at Floyd on Atlantic Avenue. Oh, and it wouldn’t be a Kuntzman original without a poop reference. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Video after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Watching a Landmark Crumble

By frances kuffel on May 27, 2008 10:46 am in News

I met a woman who was three years old when the original owner of what was then a mansion died and the building was turned into apartments. She told me it was an SRO for many years, so notorious for fires that it had its own call box.

It was built by a doctor, had a stoop up to the home floors with his office in the garden apartment. There was a garden but it was filled in with an addition. She worries a bit about the demolition workers because it has so many staircases going every which way that they could collapse if they aren’t careful.(via Flickr)

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Brownstoner: Penson’s Marketing of 100 Clark May Show Reason for Neglect

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 10:33 am in Landmark Preservation, News, Real Estate

The groundswell of rage over the “demolition by dereliction” of 100 Clark Street is growing. Brownstoner does their homework and reveals a few new facts including: Continue Reading →

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This Way Please

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 8:33 am in Photos

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Post’s Peyser on Middle School Pickle

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 8:31 am in DUMBO, Kids, Landmark Preservation, News, Real Estate

That eternal ray of sunshine, the NY Post’s Andrea Peyser, writes today about the Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO middle school issue. Guess which side she’s on: Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights Pets Feel Recession’s Pinch

By Homer Fink on May 27, 2008 8:23 am in News

The New York Daily News covers the rising cost of pet food today, with a cameo appearance by Pet Emporium owner Sam El Romi: Continue Reading →

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Penson to Brooklyn Heights: Drop Dead

By Homer Fink on May 26, 2008 1:16 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Landmark Preservation, News, Real Estate

The current owners of 100 Clark Street, the Penson Companies, cannot be completely blamed for the years of neglect that caused this weekend’s demolition of its top two floors. However this “demolition by dereliction” in a landmarked neighborhood is positively criminal and it happened on this company’s watch. Continue Reading →

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NY Post on 100 Clark Street Troubles

By Homer Fink on May 26, 2008 10:16 am in Development, Food, Landmark Preservation, News

The New York Post reports today on the evacuation and condemnation of 100 Clark Street. The article says “an anonymous tipster” called 311 Saturday to alert them about the top two floors of the building protuding more than 13 inches over Clark Street: Continue Reading →

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Stop Work Order at 75 Pineapple Street

By Homer Fink on May 25, 2008 5:06 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Landmark Preservation, News, Real Estate

BHB reader Andrew Porter sends word that a stop work order has been issued to 75 Pineapple Street. Anyone know more details? We passed there yesterday and there seemed to be some “critters” living in the facade at 71 Pineapple. Continue Reading →