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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 members of the newspaper club at P.S. 29 in Cobble Hill visited the offices of the Brooklyn Eagle with teacher Melanie Kletter Thursday. The Eagle’s journalists, business staff and production crew explained how a newspaper and its Internet Web site are put together.
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 on Atlantic Avenue suddenly sprouted three bright yellow boxes above the roofline.
Watchdogs feared that the structures are illegal cabanas similar to the beachy doodads atop other Walentas luxury buildings.
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 was back in business. After a five-month break, the diner opened its doors under the watchful eye of Katehis (who also owns the Carroll Gardens Classic Diner on Smith Street), and on its first day, it was indeed swamped.
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 Island College Hospital, Main Floor, Atlantic Avenue at Hicks Street
Download this PDF all the exciting details! (Acrobat reader required)
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 kid growing up in Sheepshead Bay. I like a place where you watch a really good film without distraction and disappear into the world of the movie. I personally choose the films that play in my theaters, and so in my own way I have a cultural impact on the community. I don’t play crap.”
He says his Cobble Hill theater attracts a lot of Brooklyn people involved in the movie business – Chris Rock, John Turturro, Marisa Tomei, Steve Buscemi, to name just four.
This guy knows his audience. Elgart says he’s still getting over the recent death of one of his most famous customers. [Full Story]
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 problem, one so bad that the bugs spread the walls and beams of the building to the left. No wonder the thing’s falling down; it’s eaten out inside.
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. It’s one of those places where the portions are small, the prices are big and the service is bad. And I was NOT in the mood for such a place. Then all of The Cobble Hill moms started pouring in with their SUV-sized baby strollers. It was everything the stereotype says it is. I am not at all enamored of Cobble Hill. I’d like to go back to Brooklyn Heights, please.
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 taking so long to become a reality. Now we know: The grocer’s plans had to pass muster with that merry band of preservationists known as the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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