Brownstoner reports that the two-story light brick building at 30 Henry Street (and Middagh Street) in Brooklyn Heights -- most recently the headquarters of the Brooklyn Eagle -- sold for $3.5 million.The approved five-story, five-unit proposal can be ... »
- Business Week doesn't really care for the Keith Haring exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Business Week - Scenes from an empty Brooklyn polling station on GOP primary day. NY Magazine - Lost and Found: Investigative attorneys specialize in finding th... »
Success Academy Charter School network head Eva Moskowitz blamed "the unions" today when SUNY's Charter School Institute postponed a vote on allowing higher management fees at some of the chain's charter schools."We are disappointed that union oppositi... »
- CB6 meeting tonight (Wednesday) about the EPA's Superfund Site investigation and sewer overflows into the Gowanus Canal. Carroll Gardens Patch - Brooklyn state Sen. Eric Adams wants transit workers to be armed with Tasers. NY Daily News - The city wi... »
- Residents faced off with officials at a Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting, saying the government is quietly pushing through major projects like an ecologically troubling natural gas pipeline. Sheepshead Bites - Details of the Barclays Arena liquor licen... »
- Wild shootout in Sheepshead Bay leaves four cops injured. CBS- Die-hard Jersey fans ready to divorce Nets. WSJ - Gowanus property across from Whole Foods site on market for $5.8 million. Brooklyn Eagle - New York's disgusting pay phones will be repla... »
Public Place, the area once known as Citizens Gas Works, a manufactured gas site, is a highly contaminated plot of land along the Gowanus Canal, bordered by Smith, 5th, and 9th Streets in Carroll Gardens. The Hudson Companies' idea for the Public Place... »
- Coney Island entrance plan unveiled. TRD - Park Slope Food Coop Israeli products ban a no go. NY Daily News - Speed survey shows deadly McGuiness Blvd. out of control, with two out of three motorists speeding. Streetsblog- Parents say work at two sc... »
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has jumped into international politics, urging members of the Park Slope Food Coop to call off their proposed boycott of products from Israel. The coop will consider the proposal on Tuesday, March 27 at their general meet... »
More Extensive Flooding In Brooklyn?Two reports have been released recently that bode ill for waterfront property in Brooklyn.The first, released last Wednesday, says that the risk of storm flooding is increasing faster than thought due to a rise in se... »
- 161 Columbia Heights, the latest Brooklyn Heights property put up for sale by the Jehovah's Witnesses, sold this week for roughly $3 million. Crain's NY Business- The famous crossword-solving computer didn't do so great at this weekend's American Cro... »
- Cobble Hill high school employee busted for touching student. Carroll Gardens Patch- DEP has issued a Request for Proposals to create millions of dollars worth of green infrastructure for the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek and Flushing Bay in Queens. B... »
- Intoxicated man driving in Brooklyn without license runs down 69-year-old-woman, flees, is tailed by a witness and arrested by police. CBS - City's new livery cabs (the kind you will be able to hail legally) will probably all be green. Gothamist - CB... »
- The campaign to save the G train extension into Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington is on a roll. Brownstoner - Downtown Brooklyn Panera opening Monday. Brownstoner - Nearly 100 organizations submitted applications to have DOT slow down traff... »
- Charges against Brooklyn man tossed after video shows arrest was bogus. NY Daily News - Jewish people think atheist billboard in Williamsburg is annoying. Brooklyn Eagle - NYPD investigating an unidentified person who apparently fell or jumped from t... »
