The NY Daily News reports today that the Brooklyn Municipal Building on Joralemon Street may be adding two floors of retail outlets: NY Daily News: Brooklyn Municipal Building to Convert…: Downtown Brooklyn planners are pushing an idea to outfit the borough’s staid, 80-year-old Municipal Building with two floors of shops, Brooklyn News has learned. The first […]
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Alternate Side of Street Parking
This column originally appeared in Brooklyn Paper on July 14, 2007 The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To me! Exclusively! In my last column, I reported on the controversy surrounding alleged parking permit abuse on Pierrepont Street. The problem is so bad along the strip between Henry and Hicks streets […]
Permits a Plague on Pierrepont
This column originally appeared in Brooklyn Paper on June 30, 2007 Parking is at a premium in Brooklyn Heights even when no laws are being broken. But plenty of laws are — and sometimes by the enforcers of them. It is illegal to park in a “No Parking” zone, even if your car has a […]
Eagle: Production Gifts Nabe for Shoot
The Brooklyn Eagle reports that Gramercy Productions, the producers of Burn After Reading, which recently shot in Brooklyn Heights has sent donations and gifts to “several social and educational entities”: Brooklyn Eagle: Movie Maker Offers Gifts…: Gramercy Productions informed the Brooklyn Heights Association that it has made donations to P.S. 8, St. Francis College, Community […]
Clinton Erection Deflated
Brooklyn Paper: City Blocks Clinton Street Tower: Brooklyn Heights preservationists hailed a decision by the Department of Buildings to block a developer from adding six stories onto an already nine-story building at the corner of Clinton and Montague street. Buildings officials would not comment on why they rejected the proposed addition, which would create a […]
Daily News on Ricky’s
Interesting quote from Judy Stanton in today's NY Daily News story about the new Ricky's on Montague Street: NY Daily News: New Beauty Shop…: The glitter and glitz of Ricky's cosmetics stores are coming to quaint Montague St., producing mixed reactions from residents. The Ricky's chain, which sells cosmetics, hair dye, wigs, bachelorette party fare […]
Pierrepont Parking Part Two
In his final "guest" column for the Brooklyn Paper, BHB publisher Homer Fink follows up on the parking problems of Pierrepont Street: Brooklyn Paper: Alternative Side of Street Parking: In my last column, I reported on the controversy surrounding alleged parking permit abuse on Pierrepont Street. The problem is so bad along the strip between […]
Pierrepont Parking Problems
In this week's Brooklyn Paper, BHB publisher Homer Fink discusses permit abuse in the nabe: Brooklyn Paper: Permits a Plague on Pierrepont: Parking is at a premium in Brooklyn Heights even when no laws are being broken. But plenty of laws are — and sometimes by the enforcers of them. It is illegal to park […]
Splitting Hairs Over Parking Tickets
Today's Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports on the increase in parking tickets in the Heights: Brooklyn Eagle: Downtown Parking Blitz: According to Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, the problem is that “generally in Downtown Brooklyn and in the areas around it, there is a tremendous amount of parking pressure. Incidents of illegal […]
What’s Coming to Pineapple Street?
The Brooklyn Eagle reports today that the developer who purchased 71,73 and 75 Pineapple Street plans to build a "contemporary" structure in the vacant lot at number 73. According to the report the new construction is on the docket for the Landmarks Preservation Commission today (update: action has apparently been LAID OVER) and on the […]
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