Word on Smith Street is that Flatiron Lounge cocktail maven Julie Reiner is planning on opening up a new mixology hot spot in the hipster heart of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Archive | October, 2007
Vittles Vamp: B’Hill Booze Getting Upgrade?
Riders to B63 – You Suck!
The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives have given the B63 bus a “Pokey Award” for being the slowest bus line in Brooklyn. Way to go!
CHA Meets with Special Guest
Brooklyn Eagle: Community boards and their continued relevance in the era of 311 were the topics of the General Membership Meeting of the Cobble Hill Association, held at Long Island College Hospital on Oct. 29. But before an introduction to Community Board 6’s new chairperson, Richard S. Bashner, and a talk by, and question-and-answer session with, District Manager Craig Hammerman, there was a bit of celebration.CHA President Murray Adams sketched the history of the community’s struggle to maintain the 50-foot height limitation in Cobble Hill’s historic landmarked district, which was threatened by a plan by Two Trees Management to build a 60-foot residential structure in the Atlantic Avenue parking lot behind the former Independence Savings Bank.
Michelle Williams Buggin’ Out of Boerum Hill?
Page Six reports today that Michelle Williams is about to bolt the Boerum Hill brownstone she shared with Heath Ledger. (The paper refers to their nabe as Cobble Hill… ah semantics!): Continue Reading →
Carroll Gardens’ Nick Monte Dies
Nick Monte was from Carroll Gardens and swam in the St. George Hotel’s saltwater pool when he was kid. He grew up to revamp Gurney’s in Montauk and make it one of the best oceanside resorts in the county:
New York Times: Nick Monte Dies at 90: Mr. Monte bought the inn for $200,000 in 1956 from Maude Gurney, a Christian Scientist who opposed alcohol consumption. At the time, Mr. Monte owned a well-known restaurant in Brooklyn, Monte’s Venetian Room on Carroll Street in Carroll Gardens, which had sold homemade brew during Prohibition. He began serving liquor at Gurney’s, started adding rooms, built what he called the Skipper’s Dining Room and, in 1979, opened the spa.
Open Thread Weekend
Here’s an open thread to talkback to us about anything you like including:
Buying a building with tenants
NY Times: Pesky Tenants Can Slow Sales
The NY Times has a story today about how buildings that come with rent controlled or rent stabilized tenants can be hard to sell or a bargain depending on how you look at it:
NY Times: When the Price Inclues Tenants: But prospective buyers apparently did not see such opportunities in a three-family, four-story brick town house on a prime Cobble Hill block that was listed by Brown Harris Stevens. Comparable town houses range in price from about $2.2 million to $2.5 million, but this building had a rent-controlled tenant in the lower duplex, which had exclusive use of the garden. The other two apartments were not rent-regulated, but they were occupied.
Even though the building was in good shape and the two upper apartments were newly renovated, the broker, Jill Seligson Braver, priced the house at $1.65 million because of the tenants. Still, it didn’t sell for two and a half months, and the owner decided to take it off the market in early October.
“Outlaw” Artist Nabbed by Cops
The Brooklyn Paper reports on Cobble Hill’s “outlaw” artist Ellis G and his recent run in with the law:
Brooklyn Paper: Second Chalker Nabbed by Cops: The city’s crackdown on sidewalk chalk “vandals†is officially out of control! It was bad enough when the Sanitation Department threatened the parents of a 6-year-old Park Slope girl with a $300 fine if they did not remove the offensive “graffiti†— her sidewalk chalk drawings on their own front stoop.
But after we ran our front-page story about Natalie Shea and her chalk “vandalism,†a Cobble Hill chalk artist who had never been arrested before suddenly found himself in handcuffs and spending a night in the lockup.
Coincidence? Not likely, considering that the artist, Ellis Gallagher, had been quoted in the original Brooklyn Paper piece — a story that the desk sergeant just happened to be reading when Gallagher was brought in.
“The cops had spent about half an hour debating whether to arrest me, so they finally called the sergeant who said, ‘Bring him in,’†recalled Gallagher. “And when I get to the 76th Precinct [stationhouse], sure enough, the sergeant is reading The Brooklyn Paper and laughing at me.†(Full story)
Cobble Hill’s $8.75 Million Townhouse
Brownstoner reports on a townhouse for sale in the nabe for $8.75 million. It over looks Verandah Park:
Brownstoner: House of the Day:Â Holy Moly! This has got to be the nicest house on the market right now. It’s a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house overlooking Verandah Park in Cobble Hill with a stand-alone carriage house in the rear. All in, it’s got 7,000 square feet of living space and enough parking space for four cars. Judging from the photos, there’s recently been a top-of-the-line renovation as well that preserved the house’s many original details while creating a beautiful, huge modern kitchen.
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