A police source from the 76th precinct told CHB, “DCPI put out a sheet on the crime today. They’ll definitely make an arrest on this, but they’re still investigating — most homicides, they would have wrapped up by now but they’re doing a thorough job, that’s for sure. They’re still at the house, investigating.”
Archive | March, 2009
76th Precinct Crime Blotter
Here’s the week’s crime blotter for Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and some Carroll Gardens. The list includes crimes from the last two weeks.
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Cobble Hill Housewife ain’t so Brooklyn
The Daily News had some real Brooklyn housewives weigh in on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City, with a particular focus on Alex McCord, the only housewife with a Brooklyn address. The real Brooklyn housewives aren’t buying the lavish homes in the Hamptons and single women traipsing around as “housewives” as a true depiction of what New York City wives and mothers are like.
As a resident of Cobble Hill and the only cast member living in the borough, McCord is scarcely seen mingling with the other neighborhood moms. That’s too bad, too, because she does list herself as being proficient in the “Brooklyn” dialect on her résumé.
“She doesn’t hang out in our circles,” says Carroll Gardens neighbor Carolyn Pravda. “I’ve never seen her in the park, and I’ve just about had a play date with every mom in the neighborhood. You do see some of the movie stars here, but not this reality TV person?”
More details in George Weber murder
After a day of investigations at the home of George Weber at 561 Henry Street, more details have been revealed about his death. Continue Reading →
Dine in Brooklyn starts this week!
Brooklyn’s own restaurant week, Dine in Brooklyn, starts today! The restaurant week is a great deal — between today and April 2, diners pay $23 for a three-course meal, but reservations need to be made in advance. This year, some restaurants are even offering a $23 dinner for two, and others are offering a $23 2-for-1 brunches.
An updated list of participating restaurants is available in this colorful PDF, and those in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill are listed below.
The following restaurants are participating in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill:
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Carroll Gardens newsman found stabbed to death in apartment
WABC radio newsman and Carroll Gardens resident George Weber was found stabbed to death in his first-floor brownstone apartment on Henry Street on Sunday morning. Weber covered Brooklyn news on his blog, which featured a story on Dennet Place picked up by CHB in February. Weber’s final entry was posted on his blog on Friday.
Daily News: He was laid off from WABC in February 2008 along with veteran John Gambling and had been working as a freelance news anchor at ABC News Radio.
At WABC, Weber covered the 2001 falling of the Twin Towers from the scene.
“He worked all over the country, but when he got to Brooklyn, he adopted it. He knew more about Brooklyn than the natives,” Sliwa said.
“I’d go to parties at his house and he’d have all kinds of people there – artists, longshoremen, media people, everybody. You’d hang around for hours and never run out of people to meet. Everybody loved George because he really listened to them.”
Weber was remembered fondly in his neighborhood.
God of Carnage, Opening on Broadway, Set in Cobble Hill
God of Carnage, by the French playwright Yasmina Reza, is about the meeting of the parents of two boys who have been involved in a playground fight, and how that meeting degenerates from civility to catastrophe. It is described as “a comedy of manners without the manners.” The play as written by Reza was set in Paris. It was translated into English by Christopher Hampton, and had a successful run in London. According to the Wall Street Journal:
With “God of Carnage” for Broadway, Mr. Warchus [the director], Mr. Hampton and Ms. Reza changed the setting from a Parisian neighborhood to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Previously, her plays had always kept their original setting. Hope Davis, a Brooklyn resident, suggested the neighborhood during rehearsals after they had decided on a New York locale.
Ms. Davis plays one of the mothers in Carnage. One of the fathers is played by James Gandolfini of Sopranos fame, and the other by Jeff Daniels. The other mother is Marcia Gay Harden.
Carnage has been in previews since February 28, but officially opens tomorrow night at the Bernard Jacobs Theater, 242 West 45th Street, Manhattan.
3.23 Update: Carnage gets a rave review from Ben Brantley in today’s Times.
Squadron Announces Park Plan
State Senator Daniel Squadron described his plans for design and financing of Brooklyn Bridge Park this evening at Borough Hall. He will host another meeting on the same subject on Sunday, April 5. With regard to design, he stressed that he does not want any housing built on Park land other than the existing 360 Furman Street condo conversion and the combined hotel/residential building slated to be adjacent to Pier One. Plans for use of Park land, he said, should include active year-round recreational facilities, including a “bubble” on at least one pier enclosing such uses as, for example, basketball and tennis courts, as well as a permanent on-shore or floating pool, and an ice rink that might also be usable as a roller skating rink in the warm months. He also said a water taxi dock is essential, and suggested that a proposed middle school could occupy part of 360 Furman. Although Squadron didn’t mention it, this would eliminate the need to put the school in the proposed Dock Street high rise building. Continue Reading →
Update2: Squadron’s BBP meeting details
We just got an email from NYS Senator Daniel Squadron’s office about his Brooklyn Bridge Park meeting in which he will unveil his vision for the park. Work in Albany calls, and he has now postponed this week’s meeting but added a second. The meetings are tonight, Friday, at 5:30 pm at Borough Hall, and Sunday, April 5 at 3 pm, place TBD.
The email reads, in full:
For the record: Cafe Pedlar
There’s been much confusion over and misprinting of the name of the new cafe from Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. So, for once and for all, it’s Cafe Pedlar. No coffee, no peddlar. And for now, no sign (and no comment on whether or not they’ll be getting one soon).
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