Cobble Hill Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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. [...]

WPvideo 1.02

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.

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 [...]

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
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