Who's afraid of public housing? Not Brooklyn! The borough, newly named the coolest city on the planet, has not let the proximity of public housing complexes affect ever-increasing real estate prices, The New York Times reports. More specifically, a steady flow of professionals and young families have moved into the Boerum Hill neighborhood despite the looming public housing towers on either side. Read More
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With The Grocery’s debut in 1999, Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens—once the land of lawn chairs and “social clubs”—had its culinary coming out party. Chef-owners Sharon Pachter and Charles Kiely, late of Savoy, brought a Manhattan finesse to then-barren Smith Street, and enterprising foodies braved the F train for slow-rendered Read More
The biggest problem with Clover Club, the new loungey bar on Smith Street in Boerum Hill, is that it gets Brooklyn pretension all wrong.
Everything looks like it came straight from the Jazz Age section of a Restoration Hardware catalog: tin ceiling, dark wood paneling, etched-glass light fixtures, black-and-white photos of indeterminate provenance of mustachioed Read More
Almost half of the new renters in the first quarter of this year were between 21 to 25 years old, and 93 percent were under 35. The typical renter in Read More
Outside of the East Village, the leafy brownstone neighborhoods of Brooklyn are the defacto homesteads for New York's entertainment types. Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger "moved to Brooklyn for light and space and air," the actress has said, and their neighbors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard got a $1.75 million brownstone last year with Read More
If you can't beat 'em, bank on 'em. Each week, Chris Shott of Counter Espionage and Shott on Location acclaim will mark the city's banking boom by highlighting new additions to its burgeoning corner-branch population. For years, the bucolic boutique-lined streets of Boerum Hill went untouched by the banking industry's ravenous real-estate appetite. Read More
In the wake of Boerum Hill’s “It”-ification, my father and I recently decided to ring the doorbell of our old house on Dean Street. The visit was odd for several reasons, the first being that the nice couple living in the house initially thought that I was my father’s wife. After I made it a Read More
May 28, 2006 11:38 a.m. 8 pounds, 12 ounces Lenox Hill Hospital Ya gotta love Brooklyn! When Boerum Hill brownstone owner Angela Ferrante’s water broke at 6 a.m. on a Sunday, she knew she could count on her upstairs neighbor, who rents the top two floors. “[He] gladly jumped out of bed and drove us Read More
It was less than a year ago that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams bought a $3.6 million townhouse in Boerum Hill, instantly becoming the neighborhood's "it" couple. And now, they've taken refuge in the Hollywood Hills. Sadly, there will be no more subway sightings (They're Just Like Us!), or anti-Ratner rants. Remember when Read More
Petition
We, the undersigned, call for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, for shooting an innocent man (Harry Whittington) with a shotgun. Mr. Cheney’s explanation—“I mistook him for a quail” — is not acceptable, we attest. 1. Sparrow Phoenicia, N.Y. 2. 3. So far, actually, I really have eight signatures (including me and my Read More
Sarah Barack and Christopher Berend Met: Fall 1998 Engaged: August 2005 Projected Wedding Date: Sept. 3, 2006 Sarah Barack, 31, a brunette, porcelain-skinned art conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will marry Christopher Berend, 30, a stylishly shaggy senior associate editor at Esquire, at Ms. Barack’s parents’ house in Chicago. They met through a Read More
The chicest thing you can be right now in Manhattan is Australian! Throw another wombat on the barbie, because Aussies have never been more in vogue, or in Vogue . Reedy Six Feet Under actress Rachel Griffiths, fleshy Hours supporting actress Toni Collette, mad operetta director Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin (Mrs. Baz)-the list is longer Read More
