BHB contributor and Self Absorbed Boomer Claude Scales not only attended the Brooklyn Blogfest on Thursday, but got his name in a fancy NY Times piece today to boot: NY Times: Out of Brooklyn, Endlessly Blogging: Self-Absorbed Boomer, a delightfully named blog run by Claude Scales. “If you do look at it, I hope you’ll […]
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Panelists Discuss “Roots of Modern Brooklyn”
A group of distinguished civic leaders and academics, including former journalist and Phoenix founder Michael Armstrong and former Deputy Mayor, now Crain's New York Business publisher, Alair Townsend (photo above), convened at the Brooklyn College Library on Thursday to discuss the events, forces and people behind the residential, educational, commercial and artistic resurgence of Brooklyn. […]
99 Gold Goes Rental
People in contract to buy at 99 Gold Street emailed me that they were informed today the building is going rental. Add this to the influx of new rentals at 133 Water, and Vinegar Hill and DUMBO's rental landscape has drastically changed! Other new condo buildings in the neighborhood are still in the works. Though […]
Clinton Hill America’s “Bloggiest” Neighborhood
A story in today's New York Post cites a survey done by Steven Johnson, of the website outside.in, that shows Clinton Hill, Brooklyn to be the "bloggiest" neighborhood in the nation. The only other New York neighborhood to place in the top ten is Harlem, which comes in eighth. The rankings were determined based on […]
Golden honored at BHS
Former Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden (photo above) was the guest of honor yesterday evening at a reception at the Brooklyn Historical Society to inaugurate an exhibit and series of events on the theme "The Roots of Modern Brooklyn – A look at the 1970s and 1980s". (For details on the remaining events, which are […]
Sad End to Porchetta
Our new favorite outside the nabe restaurant, Porchetta in Carroll Gardens, is in the middle of a sordid maelstrom between its owner and its promising visionary chef. Eater broke the story, the Times reports on it today:
Friday’s Quits Gage & Tollner Space
Brooklyn Heights Press reports that chain restaurant T.G.I. Friday's has vacated the space, near the western end of Fulton Mall, formerly occupied by Gage & Tollner, which, until it closed in 2004, had for many years been Brooklyn's longest surviving restaurant. I first discovered Gage & Tollner when a friend took me there in […]
Nabe Pooch is a Hot Dog
Nabe pooch "Nigel" a Chihuahua/Jack Russell mix, who hails from Willow Street and frolics at Hillside Dog Park, is featured in a unique photo exhibit, "Brooklyn Rescues", at Willie's Dawgs in Park Slope. The recently opened swank new hot doggery (of the edible kind) is an homage to owners Ellen Lutter and Tom Anderson's beloved […]
OTBKB Celebrates at Le Petite Marche
Brooklyn Paper's "Smart Mom" and publisher of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn Louise Crawford has a great post today about celebrating her Dad's birthday at Le Petite Marche: Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: My Father's Birthday: Tonight we ate in a new French place in Brooklyn Heights on Henry Street. The joint was packed and […]
Lonely Planet Shouts Out Brooklyn
Brooklyn (along with Hawaii in the USA) has been tapped as one of the top 10 places to visit in 2007 by Lonely Planet tour guides as featured in the latest edition of their Blue List. "I commend Lonely Planet for recognizing what Brooklynites have always known: our borough is not just the best place […]
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