It’s official – Vitadent has backed out of its plan to move into 147 Montague Street according to the Brooklyn Eagle. The site of the old Mr. Souvlaki restaurant and office space above it are once again available for rent. (Wethinks it would make a great combo of a *new* Magnetic Field/Brooklyn Bugle office. If […]
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P.S. 8 Wins Blackboard Award
Manhattan Media, publishers of the Our Town newspaper and other titles issued its Blackboard Awards yesterday. Our own P.S. 8, which was recently given an “F” by the DOE, took home an award for “Brooklyn’s Rising Star Public Elementary School” the Brooklyn Eagle reports.
Jail Open For Biz
From CHB: The NY Daily News reports that 50 prisoners bunked at the Brooklyn House of Detention last night. Those 50, according to the report, will be painting and getting the place ready for 1,500 of their closest friends. Read more. Update: Rally Tuesday to close jail. [Brooklyn Eagle]
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Eagle Profiles Mailer’s Son
The Brooklyn Eagle’s Brad Lockwood profiles John Buffalo Mailer, son of the late Norman Mailer: Brooklyn Eagle: John Buffalo Mailer…: It has been a year since Norman Mailer died, and John Buffalo is his youngest child. His mother, Norris Church Mailer, generously opened her Brooklyn Heights home to us recently, and the extraordinary literary history […]
Love Lane Mews… Eventually
Bob Esnard, project director of the Zucker Group who have partnered with Sterling Equities on the Love Lane Mews condo project explains why things seem to be moving very slowly: Brooklyn Eagle: ….Moving Along: “It’s one of the most complicated little jobs we’ve ever attempted,” he said, adding, “It’s been a very involved public process […]
BHA Plants Some Trees, Makes Life Pretty
This may be the year of the War on Trees, but the Brooklyn Heights Association is doing its part to add more to the neighborhood by planting new ones: Brooklyn Eagle: BHA Makes…: The trees are all different kinds; the type of tree that gets planted varies depending on the site. They are “scattered about […]
Rabbi Raskin Has Advice for Leaders
Congregation B’nai Avraham is bursting with literary talent. First, Rabbi Simcha Weinstein unleashed his Up Up and Oy Vey in 2006 and his upcoming Schtick Shift and now Rabbi Aaron Raskin has teamed up with management consultant Dr. Thomas D. Zweifel in writing The Rabbi and the CEO: The Ten Commandments of 21st Century Leaders.
“KICK” Founder, Brooklyn Heights Preservationist Malcolm Chesney Dies
Chances are without Heights Heroes like Malcolm Chesney, Brooklyn Heights would be one giant highway today. Mr. Chesney, a Brooklyn Heights resident and champion of Brownstone Brooklyn preservation, died Thursday at 87. The group Chesney founded in 1958 with fellow Heights Heroes Otis Pearsall and Martin Schneider, Community Conservation and Improvement Council (KICK) eventually merged […]
Eagle Picks Odd Bird to Crow About Noise
Perhaps some of the folks at the Brooklyn Eagle are having one of those flashbacks we hear about so often from our grandparents – unless of course there really is a pigeon who looks like the love child of Eddie the Eagle and Professor Irwin Corey living amongst us who has advanced language skills and […]
Standish Ready to Rent
Halstead will be the rental agent for The Standish at 169 Columbia Heights, formerly a Watchtower residence. Brooklyn Eagle: …Ready to Rent: Monthly rent prices for the studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments range from $2,200 to $5,900 and $7,200 to $15,000 for several “deluxe, larger one-of-kind apartments,” according to William S. Ross, director of development […]
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