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The Recession Must Be Over – Gabriel Byrne’s Townhouse Goes for More than Asking

Curbed reports that Gabriel Byrne’s Brooklyn Heights home has been sold for more than its asking price. Must mean the recession is over and happy days are here again, right? Curbed: The house at 14 Garden Place, which was originally asking $4.7 million when it went on the market at the end of October 2009, […]

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Halloween in Brooklyn Heights

The great jack o’ lantern collection on Grace Court Alley. (More photos and text after the jump.)

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Footballer’s Brooklyn Heights Pad Sells

Curbed reports that former NY Jet John Dockery’s Garden Place home has sold for $3.445 million.  It was relisted in April for $3.7 million after initially being offered for $4.65 million in 2008.

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Copper Theft on Garden Place

A tipster sent this in: Sometime between midnight of Tuesday night and 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, someone must have walked up the stoop on Garden Place and removed the bottom section of copper leader (for scrap) from our home. I am just passing this information on to you in the hope that this might prevent […]

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Ex-Jet Sells Garden Place Town House

The New York Times reports that former NY Jet and sportscaster John Dockery is in contract to sell his Garden Place town house. The asking price is $3.7 million.  But don’t fret, you can still rub shoulders with Dockery at the football camp he runs with Joe Namath. This marks the second high profile resident of […]

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Incident on State Street

I called the city’s 311 hotline today because early this morning a woman slipped and fell on the ice.  When I got there she wasn’t moving.  Her husband didn’t have a cell phone.  He hovered over her, squeezing her hand.  I think he was in shock.  A bag of groceries lay next to her.  They […]

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