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5 By Elise Knutsen 1/30 5:19pm

Manhattan Transfers

The design harkens back to sixties architecture: a time Ms. Sarandon remembers well

Suddenly Susan Sarandon Has Three NYC Apartments: Actress Buys in Brooklyn

Brooklyn has basically turned into one big celebrity orgy. With a recent influx of Hollywoodians, the borough has become the new Soho, Tribeca and Chelsea combined.

Today, we stumbled upon yet another star-studded transaction: Susan Sarandon has just purchased at 334 Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill. And, believe it or not, Ms. Sarandon isn't the only bold-faced name on the deed. The home was sold by Danny Simmons, a poet, artist and older brother to Russell and Rev Run. Read More

3 By Elise Knutsen 9/29/11 3:13pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Leornard Lopate

Cobble Hill’s Favorite Radio Personality Can’t Afford Cobble Hill

Leonard Lopate loves his Cobble Hill home. In a recent interview with the Post the radio host gushed about life in Brooklyn, where he moved in 2009 after spending 25 years in Chinatown. Currently a renter, Mr. Lopate claims that he would love to make his rented apartment a permanent home with his girlfriend Melanie Baker. One problem—the increasingly expensive Brooklyn hood may be out of his price range. Read More

5 By Christian Lorentzen 4/26/11 10:50pm

Novelists

Almost Amis

On Monday night, I was on 10th Avenue talking to the biological granddaughter of Brooklyn literary lioness Paula Fox. I asked her if she read Martin Amis. "I like Money," said Courtney Love, sitting on a bench and smoking a cigarette outside a film premiere after-party. "I like John Self in Money," she said. "I Read More

By Tom McGeveran 7/31/07 11:41am

Return of the Indie Bookseller? Brooklyn’s BookCourt Expands

We missed this article on Friday about one of our favorite bookstores, Cobble Hill's BookCourt.

In the late 1990's, whining about the fate of independent bookstores was a favorite pastime in a certain New York demographic. But the counterexamples are starting to crop up: For every Madison Avenue Bookshop there is a Corner Bookstore; Shakespeare and Read More

By Staff 3/26/07 1:17pm

Calling Brooklyn Brownstone Owners: Be Part of A Cliche!

A tipster found the above flier in his Cobble Hill mailbox and passed it along to The Real Estate. Universal City Studios plans a film called "Baby Mama" about a 35-year-old real-estate developer played by Tina Fey (that's believable) trying to have a baby by surrogate (the surrogate's "South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowski" -- Read More

By David Foxley 2/26/07 12:00am

Tears at the Old Town

When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. Cecilia’s church would have been prominent on the low-slung skyline. These days, it sits in the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But on Read More

By Daisy Carrington 1/08/07 12:00am

Cy Sherman Schmeling Golanski

Oct 26, 2006 2:39 a.m. 7 pounds, 8 ounces St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Birthing Center When Cobble Hill resident Gina Schmeling went into labor with her firstborn, Creeley, now 3, she inspired warfare (or a fare war, as the case may be) between two cabbies. “Both drivers showed up and fought on our street about who would Read More


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