According to the Daily News, a Brooklyn Heights man, Nick Johnson, 28, has caught all 142 of the pokemon available in the U.S. in the game Pokemon GO. The News story notes that Johnson has accomplished this while putting in 50 plus hours a week as platform manager for a startup company, and also while […]
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Brooklyn Heights Resident Charged with Securities Fraud is Apparent Suicide
The Daily News reports that Sanjay Valvani, 44, a hedge fund manager who faced charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy arising from alleged insider trading, was found dead in his Sidney Place townhouse yesterday evening, an apparent suicide. Valvani is said to have made about $25 million from trades based on non-public information […]
Tell Us, Daily News, When Did Johnson Street Become Part of Brooklyn Heights?
Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy in today’s Daily News, report that a 14 year old boy who had earlier been involved in ” a brutal attack on another teen while riding a Brooklyn bus” was, on Monday charged with illegal weapons possession for trying to bring a pistol into school (the chronology of the Daily […]
This Coming Week at Brooklyn Historical Society
On Tuesday evening, July 14 at 6:30 the Brooklyn Historical Society will present “A Biography of East New York”: East New York is where NYC’s future is going to happen, where City Hall plans affordable and inclusive housing, with residents and industry existing side by side. But East New York is by geography, class and […]
“Flatiron” Design Proposed For Library Site
The Daily News has published this rendering by Marvel Architects (those wonderful folks who brought us Pierhouse) of the latest envisioning of the building that will stand where the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library now stands. Sadly, for your correspondent, it does not appear to include preservation of the lovely WPA-style friezes […]
Settlement Allows Pier 6 Tower Plans to Proceed
The Daily News reports that People for Green Space Foundation and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the Foundation that sought to prevent the construction of two residential towers on the landward side of Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, near the Atlantic Avenue entrance and just south […]
Rents at 172 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights to Start at $2,500/Month
At 172 Montague Street $2500/month will get you a studio apartment. A three bedroom high up will have a monthly rent of $9,000, according to this Daily News story. It quotes Anna Zarro, of the building’s (photo) leasing agent, Town Residential, as saying, “The views from here are nothing short of phenomenal.” Among the building’s […]
Should “Save Pier Six” and “Save the View Now” Merge Their Efforts?
Two controversies concerning present and future development projects at Brooklyn Bridge Park have roiled Brooklyn Heights lately. The first, being advanced under the banners of Save Pier 6 and People For Green Space, concerns plans, as not yet implemented, to build two high rise residential buildings near the entrance to Pier Six. The second, called […]
New York Daily News Really Likes Plan for Brooklyn Heights Library
As regular BHB readers know, last week the Brooklyn Public Library announced its decision regarding who will build a 30-story tower on the site of the Brooklyn Heights Branch library. Based upon a recent Op-Ed, the Daily News—whose publisher, Mort Zuckerman is also the lead investor in developer Boston Properties, Inc.—heartily approves the selection of […]
Daily News: R Train Service to be Restored Monday
According to the Daily News, a “transit source” has said that R train service through the Montague Street tunnel connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan, which has been closed since last October to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, will resume this coming Monday, September 15. If true, this is heartening news, as it will re-establish another […]
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