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 [...]
Archive | May, 2008
What About Those Cabanas?
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Jailhouse Rock
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
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.
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Eagle Profiles New CHA Prexy
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. [...]
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Gersh Kuntzman Is Your Special Friend, Kids… Really
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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.
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CHA on 110 Amity
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 [...]
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This Week at Book Court
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
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
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:
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