Cobble Hill Blog

Filming Of Congressional Reality Show Disrupts Committee Meeting
The hilarious fame mongering of government officials and reality TV is the subject of this video parody from The Onion. Filmed before the reality TV driven “Crashergate“, this clip features a cameo from Cobble Hillbillies/ Real Housewives of New York City castmembers Alex McCord and Simon van [...]

Mile End (97A Hoyt Street) will begin selling bagels from St-Viateur Bagel bakery in Montreal this Saturday. The bagels have been served since Mile End opened, but now they’ll be fresh out of the oven- driven down from Montreal on Friday night by two of the owner’s friends. Previously, the bagels were delivered via FedEx, and [...]

There was a large turnout for Jeff Garlin’s reading from his new book, My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World, last night at BookCourt. Local writer Jonathan Ames introduced him, recounting a story of their time at a Russian bath. There’s no greater way to appreciate Garlin’s new book than to hear him read [...]

Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin will be reading from his book, My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World, at BookCourt tonight (163 Court Street) at 7pm. According to Amazon.com, the book documents Jeff Garlin’s hysterical journey to lessen both his physical and carbon footprint. On yesterday’s The Daily Show with John Stewart, Garlin spoke about [...]

PMFA reports that Il Cuntuccio brick oven pizza will be opening at 478 Smith Street, on the corner of 9th Street. The location was formerly home to an Uncle Louie G’s.

At last night’s environmental committee of Community Board 6 meeting, John Bogdaski, an environmental consultant for Whole Foods, reported that site preparation work for cleanup of the proposed two-acre Whole Foods site at Third Avenue and Third Street began earlier this month. The site should be decontaminated and ready for future development by the end of [...]

In case you were curious, Norah Jones now has three windows on the side of her townhouse on Amity Street. Four more to go to make the seven (reduced from her original request for ten).

This just in from Simon van Kempen in response to Gatecrasher’s report that he and wife Alex McCord were off Real Housewives of NYC: