Cobble Hill Blog

Bluffcity2Brooklyn shot some great springtime neighborhood photos.  Check out the rest here.

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CNN covers Atlantic Avenue tunnel tourguide/maven Bob Diamond and his quest to find  out “what’s behind that wall”.
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Tickets are on sale today for The Coney Island Boom A Ring, the Ringling Bros. show set for the Brooklyn Boardwalk this summer.

Nursery University, a movie that gives a slightly comical look into the competitive world of nursery school admissions, premieres tomorrow at Cobble Hill Cinemas. The film follows five families of varying backgrounds as they attempt to get their kids into nursery school programs with limited seats and sky-high tuition prices in New York City. View the trailer here.

Shop Art will have extended hours tonight, giving visitors the opportunity to meet featured artists and learn more about the world of art. Shop Art’s Meet the Artist Night will take place from 6:30-8:00 pm tonight at 51 Bergen Street, and wine will be served.

We weren’t sure if we were being Punk’d today when an email from Cobble Hillbilly/The Real Housewives of New York City star Simon Van Kempen arrived in the CHB Inbox. The dispatch from Van Kempen not only turned out to be real but it led to a neighborly invite to their recently renovated townhouse [...]

There were some crimes along the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill borders this week, which are recapped at Brooklyn Heights Blog. Included are a bank robbery and two subway thefts.

Local author Dale Hrabi will be reading from his new book, The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents, at BookCourt tomorrow night, April 29, at 7pm.
New parents are hipper, more educated, and more sophisticated than ever, but they’re also highly competitive–a lethal combination when turbocharged by the anxieties of raising a baby. And for many [...]