The sale of 212 Columbia Heights was recorded in city records this morning, setting a record as the most expensive house to ever sell in Brooklyn Heights. The 4,950-square-foot, seven-bedroom townhouse sold for $11 million. As Curbed noted a few weeks ... »
Brooklyn native and New York Times writer Francis X. Clines, in a short essay at the bottom of today’s opinion page, observes: Just as Americans visit the Old World in search of family roots, tourists are showing up at the Brooklyn Historical Society, ... »
Sam Roberts’ “Bookshelf” column in yesterday’s New York Times includes brief reviews of two books on Heights history, both of which have been reviewed here: Henrik Krogius’ The Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which review includes a link to Karl Junkersfel... »
The Brooklyn Heights Association will have its annual meeting on the evening of Wednesday, February 22, starting at 7:30, at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Court). The guest speaker will be Sam Sifton, formerly food critic ... »
The New York Times Real Estate section has a piece by Christopher Gray on the history of the Promenade, headed by the very photo of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Promenade under construction in 1948 that begins our own Karl Junkersfeld’s video abo... »
It looks like Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is making his bid for the House seat held by Rep. Ed Towns is becoming real. An email with header “Hakeem Jeffries Democrat For Congress” was blasted over this afternoon, vaguely promising an announcement at Br... »
Its seems like only yesterday that the Bravo TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy amped up the era of the “metrosexual.” Holy cripes that was some cutting edge stuff, what with the guys using “product” and “manscaping” and stuff. But then the s... »
Recently, the NYTimes offered a superficial and frustrating article entitled: “A Judgeship With Prestige, and, Oh, What a Grand Room“. The article fails to include any significant historical or architectural … »
