In recent times, the 15,000 folks that reside across the half-square mile of Brooklyn designated as “Downtown”—unfolding at the ends of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges—have again earned the right to call their locale a “neighborhood.” With a massive... »
Park Slope 117 Berkeley Place Corcoran Sunday, 3:00-4:30 $1,900,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 218 St. Marks Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday, 12:00-1:30 $2,999,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 270 Dean Street Realty on the Greene Sunday, 1:00-3:00 $1... »
This 25-foot-wide townhouse at 314 State Street that just hit the market is pretty impressive. In addition to the princely scale, the two-family has been immaculately renovated in a traditional manner. The only thing we’re not wild about is the new flo... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Daniel BushThe Brooklyn Paper84th Precinct Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown Fulton mug Two thugs mugged a teenager on Fulton Street on April 17. The victim said he was near Gallatin Place at 5:30 pm whe... »
The stakes are high as the trial began for 43 year-old George Villanueva today at Brooklyn Supreme Court. He’s accused of pushing Officier Alan Schaberger to his death off a stoop in Boerum Hill last [...] »
Hollaback!, the Boerum Hill-based anti-street harassment campaign, will get $20,000 from New York for research and app development. Right now, Hollaback! already offers iPhone and Android apps where »
Says a reader: “There was once a perfectly good federal brick townhouse at 11 Wyckoff Street in Boerum Hill. Now there is an ugly, seemingly over-height ‘Fedders Building.’ After months of demolition and construction, the scaffolding was recently taken... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Daniel BushThe Brooklyn Paper84th Precinct Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown Bicycles stolen A thief stole two fancy bikes — worth more than $1,000 apiece — from a Water Street garage on April 26. The vi... »
