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New York Mag Cover Story Features Carroll Garden’s ‘By Brooklyn’

By on April 17, 2012 in Carroll Gardens, Food, Shopping

New York magazine’s April 23, 2012 issue covers “Artisanal Brooklyn,” with a generous 8-page spread about the borough’s movement toward locally made edibles. The subhead: “A step forward for food or a sign of the apocalypse? And does it matter when the stuff tastes so good?” (Read the full story here.)

A secondary piece showcases Brooklyn’s best “brewers, bakers and beef-jerky makers,” and includes Carroll Gardens’ own By Brooklyn, at 261 Smith Street near Degraw. Featured is its Binxgoods Genuine Vanilla, with the descriptor: “How to arrive at vanilla extract as fresh and pure as Binxgoods? First travel to India and befriend a bean farmer. Then let your imported beans steep for six weeks in your South Brooklyn kitchen.” The By Brooklyn website is here.
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Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick Move To Cobble Hill Border?

By on March 24, 2012 in Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Real Estate

Norah Jones, meet your new neighbors: Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are moving into a pair of townhouses in south Brooklyn Heights on the Cobble Hill border on State Street near Sidney Place. The New York Daily News‘ real estate guru Jason Sheftell reported late Friday that the family is closing in on a contract, after purchasing a Manhattan townhouse on East 10th St. townhouse two years ago that they never moved into.

The couple currently resides in a townhome in the West Village on Charles Street, near West Fourth Street, with their son James Wilkie, 9, and twin daughters Marion and Tabitha, almost 3. A source told the Daily News, “They loved the West Village but wanted something more private, laid-back and discreet.” Continue Reading →

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Daniel Radcliffe Films In Carroll Gardens As Beat Poet Allen Ginsburg

By on March 20, 2012 in Carroll Gardens, Hipsters

Now that he has finally shaken off Harry Potter, actor Daniel Radcliffe is ready to play some meaty grown-up roles, including the curly-headed lead in upcoming film “Kill Your Darlings,” where he is taking on beat poet Allen Ginsburg. With co-star Dane DeHaan, filming has been taking place around Carroll Gardens this week.

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CBS New York Posts Bids For The Five Best Bars In Cobble Hill

By on March 16, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Bars

CBS New York has posted on its website bids for the five best watering holes in Cobble Hill. Sounds like a good reason for a bar crawl, huh?

The list—which you can see with full descriptors here—was compiled by Jonathan Pogash, a.k.a. The Cocktail Guru, a beverage consultant, writer and educator. He notes, “Cobble Hill, with its well-kept brownstones and vast dining selections, is also a hot-bed of activity in regards to beverages.”

Pogash’s top five are as follows: Continue Reading →

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Walk On By: Smith Street’s Vintage ‘Ramshackle’ Rainbow Gift Shop

By on March 12, 2012 in Cobble Hill, Shopping

The Rainbow Gift Shop at 154 Smith Street promises “Happy Discounts.” Who could resist service with a smile? The Not Four Tourists website describes the long-lived joint as a destination for “eclectically ramshackle stuffed animals and thingamajigs.” Continue Reading →

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“Pippi Longstocking” At Cobble Hill Cinema Kids Series: Monday March 12

By on March 7, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill, Events

“Big Movies For Little Kids” returns to Cobble Hill Cinemas Monday, March 12 at 4 p.m., with “Pippi Longstocking.” All over the age of 2 are welcome, at 265 Court Street and Butler. Tickets: $7 per person, which can be purchased in advance at cobblehilltheatre.com.

The Big Movies series is hosted every other Monday at 4 p.m., following the public school calendar. Continue Reading →

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Cobble Hill Neighbor Norah Jones Releases New CD “Little Broken Hearts”

By on March 5, 2012 in Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Landmark Preservation

Norah Jones must really dig living in Cobble Hill, because the nine-time Grammy Award winner hasn’t released a new album since moving to the neighborhood in late 2009. That’s about to change with “Little Broken Hearts,” Jones’ fifth full-length disc, coming May 1 on Blue Note Records/EMI.

The project is produced by Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton), with all 12 cuts co-written by Jones and Burton. “Hearts” will be preceded by single “Happy Pills,” which you can listen to here. Continue Reading →

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PortSide New York and Mary A. Whalen Need Help

By on February 19, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Maritime

PortSide New York, the non-profit, Red Hook based organization that owns and maintains the historic harbor tanker Mary A. Whalen, which has served as a stage for Puccini’s opera Tabarro and floating folk concerts (see photo), hoped to move to new quarters in Atlantic Basin come this June. PortSide has now been told the space will not be available for some time. This puts the organization in a serious bind, as its present location cannot support the activities PortSide has planned. Details on how you can help are at the PortSide website linked above; you can donate by following a link there. There will also be a public meeting at LICH, conference rooms A and B, next Monday, February 27, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with a gathering afterward across Atlantic Avenue at Montero’s. Video after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Artists Want to Build “100 Story House” in Cobble Hill Park

By on February 8, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

Brooklyn public artist Leon Reid IV has tipped us off to a project he, along with film artist and Cobble Hill resident Julia Marchesi, are planning:

“The Hundred Story House” is a collaborative public artwork by film producer Julia Marchesi and public artist Leon Reid IV. It is a miniature Brooklyn brownstone whose windows open upon shelves of books (about 100 of them), which can be borrowed by the community. Situated in the Cobble Hill Park on Clinton Street, the House is a tiny lending library open to all and operating on the honor system — take-a-book, leave-a-book. This is an effort to celebrate the BOOK as a physical object, and the pleasure of holding it in your hand. Or better yet, placing it in someone else’s. Continue Reading →

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Ames Racks Up $1600 Bar Tab During Brooklyn Inn Wake for Bored to Death

By on December 24, 2011 in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

The NY Post reports on the huge bar tab author/Bored to Death creator/Boerum Hill resident Jonathan Ames racked up during Thursday’s farewell wake/shiva for the cancelled HBO show:

NY Post: “Bored to Death” creator Jonathan Ames racked up a $1,600 bar tab by throwing a boozy wake for his canceled HBO show Wednesday. “Welcome to the premiere — I mean, the funeral,” Ames told one of many well-wishers who packed Boerum Hill’s Brooklyn Inn after he tweeted followers to come “at 10pm & i’ll buy you a drink!” The turnout surprised Ames. “I was not expecting this. I’m gonna lose a lot of money,” he joked, adding, “Everyone gets one drink. Don’t abuse the privilege.” The writer earlier treated the show’s crew to brews at nearby 61 Local. Borough President Marty Markowitz called during the Brooklyn Inn bash to say he wanted pictures for his newsletter. A flack said Markowitz and his wife were “huge fans” and “very disappointed and angry” the show was scrapped. Ames ambled out at 1:30 a.m. in search of an ATM: Like many Brooklyn hotspots, the Inn is cash-only. Stars John Hodgman and Heather Burns were on the scene. Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis were in LA.

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