Archive | May, 2008

What About Those Cabanas?

By on May 30, 2008 in News, Real Estate

CHA President Jeff “Hussein” Strabone is burning the midnight oil over at the Cobble Hill Association Blog with an update on just what’s going on with those Walentas cabanas on Atlantic and Court:

Cobble Hill Association Blog: On May 13, we reported that Thomas Fariello, the Deputy Brooklyn Borough Commissioner for the Department of Buildings, had told us that the permission to build the duplex penthouses, a.k.a. the cabanas, at Atlantic & Court had come from City Planning. Both Brooklyn DOB and Brooklyn City Planning have been helpful, informative, and frank when we have reached out to them this month.

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Amity Street Redux

By on May 30, 2008 in News, Real Estate

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Gowanus Lounge has the lowdown on the latest iteration of 110 Amity Street:

The controversial 110 Amity Street project in Cobble Hill won an important preliminary approval last night. In a surprise move, the developer Time Equities brought the project back before Community Board 6’s Land Use and Landmarks Committee for reconsideration. There was no public notice. The Committee, which had previously voted for a conditional disapproval of the revamped design, unanimously voted to approve the project. The renovation of the historic Lamm Building was approved without conditions.

The Cobble Hill Association Blog adds:

Last night the CB6 Landmarks Committee voted unanimously to approve with conditions the developer’s latest plans. It must be said that the developer, Jonathan Wachtel, truly listened to community input and adapted his plans accordingly. The zinc siding is totally gone, replaced by brick. The committee only objected to three features:

-The material for the penthouses was not specified in the plans. The committee asked that it be wood or a non-shiny metal already in use in the neighborhood.
-The rear was deemed too modern.
-The rear should have a setback of at least one story.

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Jailhouse Rock

By on May 27, 2008 in News

From the Cobble Hill Association Blog:

Not many people realize it, but the City is planning to re-open the House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue and to double the capacity to over 1,500 inmates. Perhaps the Corrections Department has caught the overdevelopment bug that has been sweeping Brooklyn.  Read more

Illustration by Adam Suerte

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Signs of Life at the Red Deli

By on May 27, 2008 in Food

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After quite a bit of speculation, we now know the identity of the business moving into the former Verandah Delicatessen. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t suck.
Via BK11201

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Eagle Profiles New CHA Prexy

By on May 22, 2008 in News

The Brooklyn Eagle profiles Jeff “Hussein” Strabone, the new president of the Cobble Hill Association:

Brooklyn Eagle: An English literature lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at New York University, Strabone moved to Cobble Hill from Manhattan in 1998. “I was living quite shabbily in Manhattan,” he remembered. “It was basically the Garment District, above a sausage factory. I decided I needed a better space.”

He found a place for sale on Baltic Street. Then in his 20s, Strabone thought he was too young to buy property, but “the price was right” and he liked the neighborhood.

“Everything they have in Manhattan we have in Brooklyn, but not to the exaggerated extent,” he explained. “I’m not dissing Manhattan, but I like it here. It’s lively without being overwhelming.”

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Gersh Kuntzman Is Your Special Friend, Kids… Really

By on May 21, 2008 in News

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Sure Gawker had a field day yesterday with this clip by the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman’s “video podcast” of his visit to the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School but just in case you hadn’t seen it… check it out. Continue Reading →

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CHA on 110 Amity

By on May 20, 2008 in News, Real Estate

The Cobble Hill Association writes today about new plans for 110 Amity:

Earlier this evening, the Cobble Hill Association hosted a presentation of the new plans for 110 Amity Street by the developer, Jonathan Wachtel, and his two teams of architects—RKT+B for the Lamm Building, and BKSK for the townhouses. The plans for the Lamm Building remain the same: seven apartments with a glass-enclosed loggia on the roof. The townhouses have been redesigned from scratch since the last set of plans was shot down by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Gowanus Lounge photo

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This Week at Book Court

By on May 19, 2008 in Events

Events at Book Court this week:

May 21st 2008 @ 7pm

Sloane Crosley author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake

Keith Gessen author of All the Sad Young Literary Men

May 22nd 2008 @ 7pm

Benjamin Wallace author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Book Court
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 875.3677

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The Tila Tequila Effect

By on May 18, 2008 in Uncategorized

Bi Movies for Little Kids? Guess the “G” was hanging out at Lobo for real juice maragaritas:

Top photo the realjanelle via Gothamist

Drink photo by Homer “3 was enough” Fink

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Cobble Hillbilly Dan Zanes Releases Pro-Immigration Album

By on May 15, 2008 in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, News

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Cobble Hillbilly Dan Zanes has released Nueva York! a new album of music celebrating Latin American immigrants. The Philadelphia Inquirer sat down with him recently for an interview: Continue Reading →

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