News
Photo via shinya [http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki/8858800731/sizes/z/in/photostream]A 36-year-old Brooklyn Heights man was killed by a charter bus in Chelsea while riding a Citi Bike Monday morning. Dan Hanegby, an investment banker at Credit Suisse, was cycling on West 26th Street between 7th
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One man’s trash pile [/a-trash-talk-interview-with-the-park-slope-pile-parkslopestoop/]is another man’s treasure, but nobody would confuse any of these swank Brownstone Belt digs for anything other than the stuff of caviar dreams [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AS8E9eoNQw]. (Courtesy Venus Shum of Brooklyn Real Property Inc. [http://www.brooklynrealproperty.com/
Central Brooklyn
The Brooklyn DA candidates (l-r): Marc Fliedner, Patricia Gatling, Ama Dwimoh, John Gangemi, Eric Gonzalez, Anne Swern, Vincent Gentile (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Brooklyn Reform Coalition hosted a Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Forum [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7C7Eep_ii2KGC7Vpfe_Yx8C4JE10_FZ] at the First Unitarian Church
North Western Brooklyn
Almeater Harrison, Photo via NYPDThe NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 84-year-old Brooklyn Heights resident, Almeater Harrison, who was reported missing yesterday. Harrison was last seen on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets on Thursday, June 1, at approximately 5pm, police say. She is described
Carroll Gardens
The Brownstone Belt is home to incredible real estate, but it is also a place that celebrities sometimes [/celebs-didnt-know-clinton-hill-fortgreene/] call home. This week, we will indulge in some of the more luxurious (and occasionally [/5-celebs-probably-didnt-know-lived-fort-greene-fortgreene/] star-crossed) listings available in our neighborhood. (Courtesy Zillow/Corcoran [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/171-Columbia-Hts-3C-Brooklyn-NY-11201/
Announcements
Rendering courtesy of Columbia Heights Associates/Volley StudioColumbia Heights Associates have announced plans to convert the former Jehovah’s Witnesses Watchtower buildings, located at 25-30 Columbia Heights, into a deluxe office and retail campus. A joint venture comprised of CIM Group, LIVWRK Holdings, and Kushner Companies, Columbia Heights Associates purchased
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67 Livingston Street (Photo by Scott Bintner via Property Shark)Silverback Development, along with a group of investors based in Great Neck, Long Island, recently purchased 67 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights from Glory Capital [http://www.glorycap.com] for $30 million. The 50,000-square-foot building formerly served as a
celebrity
27 Monroe Place, the second most expensive residential sale in Brooklyn this year (Image by Corcoran via Streeteasy [http://streeteasy.com/building/27-monroe-place-brooklyn])Three well-known and well-heeled men are unloading Brooklyn properties in deals worth millions of dollars. Actor Mark Ruffalo recently sold his lovely 19th-century Carroll Gardens townhouse for
News
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 (Photo by Jen Aylmer via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154150997697212&set=br.AbpghpWH6mkPghjLW5tM1X0VnaP7cvu1WjrJOsYG2Pp0f_cpAomHlxn7lAV_3mEFZkc9l6jtY5sTyCNY2XT15sEUHsSN56woBcFAVYUWu2OfoJsiI4jvlzaHlhnTkqoH98fBxgez2pAHTXVMrmiSdJXhOUH8vrrj921mk6d_cKgg14TUaPXGsxa-mWnzIYT38P3WkZ4B8vGvVwNS56_bjinJCffAVjdRD5-Y3Gsu87-bpFKZ_uCM6yoSDqa5dBZMBkI&type=3&theater] )The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation and the Brooklyn Heights Association were not able to rea
community
Photo via @StephenLevin33 – Twitter [https://twitter.com/StephenLevin33?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stephenlevin.nyc%2F] The results are coming in for New York City’s Participatory Budgeting Cycle 6! Council Member Stephen Levin announced the six winning projects [http://www.stephenlevin.nyc/] for
community
Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNERThe NYPD plan to increase security in Brooklyn Bridge Park after violence broke out at Pier 2 last week, forcing cops to evacuate the park. During the 84th Precinct’s Community Council meeting at Borough Hall on Tuesday, April 18, Captain Roberto Melendez, who heads the
Food & Drink
Friend of a Farmer (Photo by Adam Rabiner)Before Whole Foods and organic food became mainstream, before “locavore” was anointed Oxford Word of the Year in 2007, before CSAs [Community Supported Agriculture] and starting my job as resident film reviewer for the Park Slope Food Coop’s Plow to Plate