On Tuesday (3/4) Real Housewives of New York premieres on Bravo and Cobble Hill will never be the same.
Archive | February, 2008
P.S. 29 Visits Whitman’s Old Paper
Apparently there’s a newspaper club at P.S. 29! Awesome, super-fantastic!! Now we can round out the CHB editorial staff with writers who won’t complain about being paid in peanut M&Ms and Hannah Montanna CDs. And maybe they can help make our “Internet Web site” [sic] the best in all the land!!:
Brooklyn Eagle: First- and second-grade [...]
Walentas: Yes We Have No Cabanas
The Brooklyn Paper reports this week on possible “cabanas” atop the new Walentas building on Atlantic Avenue. Great! Now you can pay a million bucks for a wonderful view of Sahadi’s:
Brooklyn Paper: Is Walentas…: That’s what residents of Cobble Hill were wondering this week after David Walentas’s controversial — and city mandated 50-foot-tall — project [...]
Diner Back in Action
The Brooklyn Paper reports on ther re-opening of the New St. Clair Restaurant– they’ve got CHAMPAGNE, yo!:
Brooklyn Paper: A Finer Diner: “It’s been crazy,†Spero Katehis, owner of the New St. Clair Restaurant, told GO Brooklyn as he worked the register and answered phones on Feb. 25, the first day that the Cobble Hill stalwart [...]
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AABA to Talk BBP
EJ tells us that the Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association will hold a planning workshop for Pier 6 and the Atlantic Avenue Gateway for Brooklyn Bridge Park this Thursday.
For those of you who love such gatherings here’s the info:
When: Thursday Feb. 28 at 7 – 9 pm (get there at 6:30 pm for refreshments!)
Where: Long [...]
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Cobble Hill Hero: Harvey Elgart
The NY Daily News interviews Cobble Hill Cinema owner Harvey Elgart. He talks about how cool it is to own a movie theater and Heath Ledger:
NY Daily News: In Brooklyn…: “I just love the movies,” says Harvey Elgart, who operates the Cobble Hill Cinemas and the Kew Gardens Cinemas. “Always have, since I was a [...]
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Squirrel House Under Siege
Lost City updates us on the drama that is the Kane Street rat/squirrel house:
LostNewYorkCity.com: As for the owner, she’ll have to leave her crumbling red-brick bungalow soon. The Department of Building slapped a “Vacate” notice on the door. I learned more of the building’s sad history from locals. It has long had a serious termite [...]
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Bucky: Cobble Hill Sucks
Blogger “Bucky” has an issue with Cobble Hill. Seems like she doesn’t appreciate the lovely mommies and cool wine bars in the nabe. She’s much more comfy in tony Brooklyn Heights (hey…wasn’t that Fink’s boxing name… Tony Brooklynheights?):
Bucky’s World: So we wound up at Bocca Lupo, a wine bar that serves panini lunches. [...]
LPC Clears Trader Joe’s for Launch
Seems like it was the old landmarks commission holding things up trick that has caused the delay of the opening of Trader Joe’s on Court Street:
Brownstoner: Although Two Trees confirmed last week that the slow-to-materialize Trader Joe’s at Atlantic and Court was all fact, no fiction, we still had no idea why the store was [...]
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