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 ... »
Atlantic Yards Watch has published a report showing that the sidewalks in the vicinity of Atlantic Yards have significantly less capacity for pedestrians than the project's environmental analysis anticipates. A critical measurement used in the formula ... »
Some restaurants have that "C" feel to them and some don't.Listed below are a few Brooklyn restaurants that have managed to rack up a surprisingly large number of violation points on their Dept. of Health inspections.Violation points are given for filt... »
- 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... »
- From the mouths of babes: Couple admit to stealing $2.7 million in funds meant to feed toddlers at Red Apple day care centers. Brooklyn Eagle- The real reason Ed Towns hung it up: golf. And the wife. The Local - Brooklyn poet Tracy K. Smith wins Puli... »
- 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... »
Several hundred Occupy Wall Street activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and rallied in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon, on the six-month anniversary of the massive OWS bridge arrests.The overall theme was access to healthcare. Se... »
- All 15,000 slots for the Brooklyn Half Marathon filled in under 10 hours. NYRR - The folks over at Colonie have opened one of their two new restaurants in Dumbo, Gran/Electrica. Dumbo NYC - Check out this mural made of beads, broken mirrors, shells, ... »
- Lawsuit could hurt Domino development plans. Brooklyn Eagle - A driver who was fleeing from another accident plowed into a cyclist in Bensonhurst, critically injuring him. NY Daily News - Developers plan two very tall skyscrapers at City Point in Dow... »
- Another shooting in Fort Greene, at the Ingersol Houses. The Local- A Brooklyn high school teacher arrested for improper touching. Brooklyn Eagle - More frozen yogurt on Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Brownstoner- Not free, not from Brooklyn: Bar... »
- 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... »
- 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... »
- 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... »
To protest school budget cutbacks, college tuition increases and the corporate takeover of public schools, thousands of New York City students gathered in Manhattan Thursday and marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Fort Greene Park. Marchers included st... »
