The Brooklyn Eagle covers the struggle between local businesses, real estate agents, developers and big chain stores on Montague Street: Brooklyn Eagle: Some Seek Balance…: When Archstone Smith was looking for a ground-floor tenant to fill prime retail space in its 180 Montague St. apartment tower, Bill Ross, then a principal of his own local […]
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Happy Birthday Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Henrik Kronius has a wonderful piece in the Brooklyn Eagle about the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which turns 57 on Sunday. Brooklyn Eagle: The Promenade at 57: Beginning in 1976, when I first began looking into the Promenade’s history and discovered how undocumented it was, I was in touch with a number of Moses’ engineers, almost […]
Reaction to Brooklyn Heights’ Night of Hate
The Brooklyn Eagle has an extensive report on neighborhood reaction to last night's anti-Semitic vandalism spree: Rabbi Serge Lippe of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue said that five or six years ago, his synagogue was hit by a graffiti “tagger” who included “one or two swastikas” in addition to the graffiti. The difference, he said, is […]
Eagle to Apple: Come to Brooklyn Heights
Amdist speculation of where a Brooklyn Apple Store may land, the Brooklyn Eagle throws down the gauntlet and asks the question "why not Brooklyn Heights"?: Apple is “SCOURING Brooklyn, seeking a home in the 718 area code for a flagship Brooklyn Apple store,” says Racked.com. The blog suggests several of the borough’s hip neighborhoods for […]
Behr Mansion Up for Grabs
The Herman Behr Mansion, which at some point in its long life was used as a brothel, is up for sale the Brooklyn Eagle reports: A Brooklyn Heights mansion with a somewhat checkered past is available for sale. Known as the Herman Behr Mansion (named after the industrialist who built it for his family), and […]
Giant Rat on Montague Street
The giant inflatable rat used by unions to "inform the public" about non-union worksites is currently making an appearance on Montague Street the Brooklyn Eagle reports: Failure to have a standpipe in readiness caused a stop work order to be issued against the owner of the former Franklin Trust building at 166 Montague St. a […]
St. Ann’s Sells Brownstone
The Brooklyn Eagle: St.Ann's in Heights Has Buyer…: The historic St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights has announced the sale of part of its property, a five-story brownstone at 122 Pierrepont St., to a Brooklyn Heights family. “This is an important step toward obtaining the funds we need to renovate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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