Cobble Hill Blog

This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would declare the Gowanus Canal a federal Superfund site. Read NY Times coverage here.
The Brooklyn Paper: The controversial designation sets into motion a half-billion-dollar, decade-long federally overseen clean-up of the polluted waterway, which cuts a sclerotic artery through the gentrifying heart of Brownstone Brooklyn. But it also [...]

The impending closure of the Little Room has brought about several efforts to keep it open  long enough for it to find a suitable new home. A petition can be signed at Save the Little Room to ask the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (BHMS) to keep the Little Room open for the next year, in order [...]

The plan for SUNY Downstate to take over the financially troubled Long Island College Hospital as a second campus that has been discussed since last year is almost finalized. The merger would transfer management of LICH from Continuum Health Partners to Downstate. Read more at Brooklyn Heights Blog.

We’ve been covering the fate of the Little Room - the Brooklyn Heights Montessori school program for special needs preschool-aged children - for over a year now, and we last reported that the program would remain part of the school until August 2010, with hopes of it finding a new home. Now in the last [...]

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 [...]

Chief of Department Salvatore J. Cassano has been named New York City’s 32nd Fire Commissioner. A U.S. Army veteran with combat experience in Vietnam, Cassano lives in Staten Island but was born in Carroll Gardens.
Fire Fighting News: “He has a lifetime of unmatched experience and will be an outstanding commissioner for the FDNY,” Mayor Michael [...]

The Post reports that Troy Young, 29, was killed by a bullet to his head in his basement apartment at 36 4th Street. He was discovered shortly after midnight this morning, after friends reported not having seen him for several days.

Andy Lewis, former director of the Boerum Hill  “Toxic Preschool” that closed in 2007 after  parents discovered that it had no heat, exposed wires, unpainted walls and noxious fumes, will be sentenced tomorrow before Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto on charges of stealing more than half a million dollars in U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]