Cobble Hill Blog

Filming Of Congressional Reality Show Disrupts Committee Meeting
The hilarious fame mongering of government officials and reality TV is the subject of this video parody from The Onion. Filmed before the reality TV driven “Crashergate“, this clip features a cameo from Cobble Hillbillies/ Real Housewives of New York City castmembers Alex McCord and Simon van [...]

In case you were curious, Norah Jones now has three windows on the side of her townhouse on Amity Street. Four more to go to make the seven (reduced from her original request for ten).

This just in from Simon van Kempen in response to Gatecrasher’s report that he and wife Alex McCord were off Real Housewives of NYC:

Word around the blogosphere for the past few weeks has been that Cobble Hillbillies Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen will not be featured on the upcoming season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City. [van Kempen says that's not true. Full response here.] I’ve begun to believe the rumors, because the notorious [...]

Catch Cobble Hillbilly and Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate in her final performance of her one-woman show, Dead Millionaire, tonight. The show is about her own funeral, if she was a millionaire who left all her money to her dog. Dead Millionaire is at 7pm tonight at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (307 [...]

Season 3 of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York airs in early March, so it’s time to start seeing the cast in the press. Our very own real housewife of Cobble Hill, Alex McCord, recently gave her “haute” secrets to Haute Living Blog. She gave quite a few shout outs to the nabe- including [...]

Perhaps fearing a picket line outside of her Amity Street house over her window installation plans, Norah Jones has chosen to decrease her city-approved addition of 10 windows to 7. The new application, minus 3 windows, was submitted to the Landmark Preservation Committee on December 9, according to the Post. I’m no architecture expert- are [...]

In October, Jonathan Lethem kicked off his book tour for Chronic City at BookCourt, and he will return on Friday for his last stop on the tour - and to complete his mission to read all 480 pages at his various appearances. If you ever wanted to know where Lethem does his writing, check out [...]