The city is looking for developers to renovate and operate the landmarked, long-derelict Loew’s Kings Theater—“the Kings” as locals called it back in the day—on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Designed in 1929 by Rapp and Rapp Architects, the 3,769-seat movie palace modeled after the Paris Opera House is the only one of the five “Wonder Read More
Cynthia Darrison, the woman who spent eight years building Eliot Spitzer’s mighty fund-raising operation, has calculated that there’s a market for people with skills like hers. “I don’t think donors themselves are necessarily in tune with why they’re giving,” she said in a telephone interview Saturday night from her home in Flatbush, hours before the Read More
An informed reader emailed over a rough breakdown of the results of Tuesday's special Council election in Brooklyn. It turns out that Mathieu Eugene's union-backed victory was just as thorough as the overall numbers indicated. He was the top vote-getter in nearly all of the Assembly districts that lie at least partly within the Council Read More
"A local political activist, lifelong Flatbush resident and daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she has broad support in a diverse district. Also welcome is a promise to donate any "lulu" Read More
Brooklyn coulda been a contender Downtown Brooklyn's lament has been the inability to attract mega-tenants to four different sites that were painstakingly drawn and measured in a city-led massive rezoning two years ago. Joe Chan, the president of the new Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, indicated in an interview last week that he was headed in Read More
"It looks like we just got done playing Backgammon." -Bill Batson Bill de Blasio has endorsed Bill Batson for the 57th Assembly District, despite the fact that they differ in their views on the Atlantic Yards project. De Blasio's district does not overlap with the 57th, but is just north and east of Read More
With so many people from outside the 11th Congressional district weighing in on what ought to happen there, we figured it was about time to take a stroll down to the area surrounding the proposed Atlantic Yards Plan to speak to actual residents about the issues that will affect their choice in that race. At Read More
In an intriguing pre-buttal to Eliot Spitzer's planned endorsement of Carl Andrews this Sunday, the following, from Tom Suozzi's public schedule for tomorrow: 3:00 PM Campaigns with Yvette Clarke Flatbush Avenue Vendors' Market (Between Caton Avenue and Lenox Road) Brooklyn, New York
A blaze broke out in a vacant waterfront warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn early this morning. About 170 firefighters headed to the scene from as far away as Flatbush and the Bronx, fighting what became an eight-alarm fire. Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told NBC News that is was the "largest fire in the city in Read More
An February 3 save-the-date mailing for a breakfast hosted by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush this Sunday gives Speaker Christine Quinn prominent billing. But the speaker, whose sexual orientation makes many Orthodox Jewish politicos ambivalent about honoring her, has vanished from the final version. A COJO official wasn’t immediately reachable. Quinn’s Read More
Boerum Heights. Boerum Heights, the under-construction condo building on Atlantic Avenue at the intersection of Atlantic, Fourth and Flatbush avenues, is shaping up nicely. We took a look at its Web site, and there are still a few units left! But, as evidenced by the picture, traffic right now is a nightmare. Just think what Read More
It's time for John Liu's fourth media advisory of the week! Transportation Committee to Investigate "Private Van Services: Vital Transportation Options or Accidents Waiting to Happen?" Presumably it's a fact-finding mission. Oops, one fact is already in evidence! Here's the rest of the press release: Council Members will announce a Transportation Committee hearing on the Read More
Blogger Norman Oder has a report on Wednesday’s Brooklyn Borough Board meeting and the question of whether Forest City Ratner is going to provide enough open space in its Atlantic Yards arena and housing development. Let’s put this another way: the three community boards closest to the project site, at Atlantic and Flatbush Read More
