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The Revenge of the Stoop Pooper
Behold the return of the Boerum Hill Stoop Pooper, the chilled-out raccoon of Brooklyn Heights, and the aggressive Kennedy Fried Chicken sign of Bedford Park. All in today’s boroughs report.
Posted 08/25/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Bedbugs Threaten Boerum Hill Bastille Day
'Real World' rumors hit Carroll Gardens, strange "vocational" lions hit Staten Island, the "Beaver Butler" hits the financial district, and more, in today's boroughs report.
Posted 07/15/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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You, Too, Could Pay Millions to Live in Courtney Love's Former Squalor
The ghost of Courtney Love in Soho, Reverend Billy making a racket in Union Square Park, and midwestern moms fondling stylish butt plugs in the Village! All in one city! All in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 06/05/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Jump Pad Inflated Outside Halfway House in Boerum Hill (Updated)
Someone is threatening to jump off of the roof of a halfway house there, and police have been quick to respond.
Posted 05/01/08 in Daily Intel : It Just Happened
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First Crane Raising Since Midtown Disaster Draws a Crowd
Help Moby get a buyer of his Upper West Side penthouse past his co-op board and you may win $75,000! That and more in today's reports from hoods around town.
Posted 03/31/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Preschool in Brooklyn Just Got More Toxic
Boerum Hill: Parents who shelled out $1,200 for a preschool found that it was full of toxic hazards, running without a license and bouncing teachers' checks since last summer. That's so not the New Brownstone Brooklyn! [Brooklyn Eagle] Bushwick: In which a bored cop mistakes a narcissistic gay Russian taking pictures of himself for a terrorist. Sounds like the start of a porn vid. [BushwickBK] Harlem: Will a possible rezoning of 125th Street into towers of luxury condos and chain stores be a good thing for Harlem, or "Katrina-fication done by the swipe of a pen"? [VV]
Posted 12/12/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Heath and Michelle: Everything's Wrong!
Michelle Williams may be leaving Boerum Hill because the brownstone she lives in is too big for just her and the baby. A pregnant Nicole Richie smoked a cigarette outside Da Silvano. Ed Westwick, a.k.a. Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, likes playing the bad boy. (Also, he's British!) Ryan Gosling shopped for flannel shirts at the Urban Outfitters on West 14th and also set off the store alarm. Jennifer Hudson canoodled with New York Jets free safety Kerri Rhodes at Cipriani. Joan Rivers claims her apartment was once haunted by a Jewish ghost from Larchmont. Natalie Portman couldn't flirt her way to a table at LES restaurant Apizz. The launch party of the Supper Club at the National Arts Club was way too hot.
Posted 10/29/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Either Heath Ledger or Michelle Williams Fleeing BoHi
After their recent well-publicized breakup, at least one half of Boerum Hill's most famous couple seems to be moving out, reports 801a. We're guessing it's Heath, based upon how aggressively he's been trying to find another place to sleep lately. But the best part? The above picture, captured on their street today. When Celebrities Move [801a]
Posted 09/18/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Vox Populi: The Boerum Hill Breakup
As the end of the day nears, it's time we assessed the people's reaction to New York's biggest news of the holiday weekend, the breakup of Brooklyn Über-couple Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams. We have our own opinions on the matter (read a couple that never, ever looks happy might actually not be), but on this we'll turn to the experts – the commenters on the Us Weekly blog, which broke the news. Their words of wisdom after the jump, God bless 'em.
Posted 09/04/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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The Gays Have Found Forest Hills — or Maybe Not
Boerum Hill: Prudential Douglas Elliman is pissed at bloggers who write about how their Brooklyn properties won't sell. Good, because we're pissed at all brokers for taking our money and only showing us "studios with a nook." [Brownstoner] Chelsea: All that construction at the General Theological Seminary on Tenth Avenue is for a "Geothermic Well Field." Great Scott! [Blog Chelsea] Forest Hills: Gays in the Hills! "Or maybe more straight guys are wearing Abcrombie [sic] andFitch t-shirts and walking tiny dogs with their male friends." [Forest Hills 72] Lower Manhattan: Curbed has hot pics (literally) of the destruction of a T.G.I. Friday's downtown, to make way for the Fulton Street Transit Center. TGIF indeed! [Curbed] Union Square: If you need $100 a month, why not let this Internet wunderkind hang out in your apartment sometimes? [Zach Klein] West Village: Gothamist gathers all the info on one of our New York real-estate obsessions, the Northern Dispensary Building. [Gothamist]
Posted 08/24/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Boerum Hill Apartment Papered With Wrath
Bay Ridge: The Duane Reade on Senator Street and Fourth Avenue closed. Please, please replace it with a grocery store. [Bay Ridge Brooklyn] Boerum Hill: Some new residents on State Street were inundated with love notes from neighbors (or neighbor?) after jackhammering all weekend. [Brownstoner] Chelsea: In this fairy-tale hood, there aren't just many wicked queens, but a dragon, too! [BlogChelsea] Clinton Hill: There's a giant empty building on Emerson and Park. Apartments in there could be hot. [Clinton Hill Blog] Gramercy Park: Beware a young new barber who trims beards to the jawline. [Manhattan Offender] Harlem: It sounds like the bougie intellectual crowd and the pulp-fiction "sista lit" crowds clashed at the book fair this weekend. [HarlemFur] Lower East Side: Efforts are under way to landmark a big chunk of the neighborhood before tenements are completely supplanted by shiny condos. [SaveTheLowerEastSide]
Posted 07/23/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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When Brooklyn Commenters Attack
Boerum Hill: Brownstoner hates a Robert Scarano building, but commenters think the blogger has a grudge. [Brownstoner] Brooklyn Heights: Costume-makeup-sex-toy emporium Ricky's is promising nervous locals that, when it opens on staid Montague Street in September, it'll keep the dildos out of direct view. [Brooklyn Eagle via McBrooklyn] Dumbo: Transformation of the Pearl Street Triangle has sparked a heated local debate (check the comments) on homeless people in the ever-more-gentrified hood. [DumboNYC] Maspeth: Might St. Saviour's Church be saved from demolition on the grounds that the wreckers have broken federal law by cutting down trees harboring migrating birds? [Queens Crap] South Jamaica: "We're losing our capes!" No, it's not a superheroes' lament. Just locals in this Queens burg mourning the supplanting of cute, small-scale homes with plot-hogging McMansions. [Progressive Southside] Upper West Side: It's overpriced camp season again, which means a lot of bad chords coming from your kid's bedroom. [Copyranter]
Posted 07/11/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Hookers Don't Bow to Brooklyn Gentrification
Boerum Hill: OMG, there are still hookers here? It seems so, but new euphemisms from the yups include "sex care workers." We love that. [Gowanus Lounge] Chelsea: A bank may occupy one of the first-floor biz units of the Chelsea Hotel, under new corporate management. What's next? The eviction of the age-old Dan's Chelsea Guitars store? [Living with Legends] Coney Island: Will the kiddie rides in Wonder Wheel Park be next to go? [Gowanus Lounge] Cypress Hills: The criminals-posing-as-cops vogue spread to this sketchy Brooklyn hood, where five thugs faking an NYPD drug bust tied up folks and picked their apartment clean. [Gothamist] East Village: Even in a holiday week with barely any passengers, the L train will still screw you. [East Village Idiot] Greenpoint: Word drifts back our way that an area bookseller was hurt that we tittered over her announcing an "adults only" Harry Potter party. Didn't she kind of set herself up for that? [Newyorkshitty] Prospect Heights: Residents are still waiting for that Atlantic Yards ombudsman who was promised to the community two months ago. [Atlantic Yards Report]
Posted 07/06/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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The People's Republic of Bushwick Rises
Boerum Hill: A rundown YWCA will become home to 84 new units of affordable studios (under $600) for women rather than the site of a luxury condo. File under So Refreshing You Want to Cry. [NYDN via Queens Crap] Bushwick: The artists living at 345 Eldert Street plan to secede from Brooklyn tomorrow. [Brooklyn Paper] Chelsea: That dance piece they were filming on the High Line last week? It's Jerome Robbins's 1958 work Opus Jazz, to be completed by next summer. [BlogChelsea] Clinton Hill: It's a race against the clock at 163 Washington Street as a developer tries to grandfather in a high-rise's foundation before new zoning forbids it. [Brownstoner] Gowanus: Since when is this desolate hood considered "the heart of downtown" Brooklyn? Since a just-opened Comfort Inn here started marketing it that way. [Gowanus Lounge] Harlem: Just how loud is the weekly drum circle in Marcus Garvey Park? [Harlem Fur] Williamsburg: East River State Park opens full-time today, just in time to offer the city's best view of tomorrow night's fireworks (if they're not rained out, that is). [I'm Not Sayin', I'm Just Sayin']
Posted 07/03/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Red Hook Too Gentrified for Wild Dogs
Boerum Hill: The unidentified crapper has been caught in the act! [Curbed] Dumbo: The acronym may actually mean "Down Under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Overpasses." [Dumbo NYC] Fort Greene: Architectural salvage up for grabs: mantels, mirrors, bathtubs, and more! [Brownstoner] Greenpoint: If you need a Panama hat or a fine Mexican wedding shirt, go to Huitzilli. [newyorkshitty] Long Island City: Pay $5,000 a month for 4,700 square feet. [OuterB] Red Hook: A couple of the wild dogs from the Revere Sugar Factory have found a new home in Pennsylvania. [Gowanus Lounge]
Posted 07/02/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Heatherette Classes Up Columbus Circle
Boerum Hill: Smell a rat around here? Gee, maybe it's that dead one that's been peeping out of someone's garbage can for several days. [Gowanus Lounge] Chelsea: They were filming some dance movie on the High Line yesterday. Starring, uh, Craig. You know Craig, right? [BlogChelsea] Clinton Hill: Did someone around here really lose a "mangy looking" pigeon with "black bits"? (Ooh, what are those?) Or is this sign some kind of birdbrained bluff? [Clinton Hill Blog] Columbus Circle: It's the Heatherette statute of a sneaker we've all been waiting for. [Copyranter] Graniteville: Here on Staten Island, cops raided a home harboring 2,500 pounds of explosive materials. The owner was selling them over the Internet. [Staten Island Advance via Gothamist] Harlem: They'll be replenishing those wood chips in the dog run at St. Nick's Park tomorrow … and they need your help! [Harlem Fur] Park Slope: Grand Army Plaza could become safer, more serene, and more pedestrian-friendly. Really? [Brooklyn Paper]
Posted 06/29/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Standing Up for Double-Parking Rights in the Slope
Boerum Hill: Neglected Thomas Green Park could become a $4 million skate park. [Brooklyn Paper] Forest Hills: There's a stop-work order on the demolition of a historic 72nd Avenue townhouse, but will the developer behind the demo honor it? [Forest Hills 72] Harlem: A cute black and white Chihuahua named Bugzy has gone missing. Have you seen the adorable uptown critter? [Harlem Fur] Park Slope: The 9th Street bike-lane opponents fear they'll lose their ability to double park. [I'm Seeing Green] Times Square: Even with guns, drugs, and hookers freely traded there, the Aladdin Hotel is still not the worst-ranked inn in the city. [NewYorkology] Williamsburg: It came in the night. The long-dreaded pile driver for massive Billyburg condo devo the Edge, that is, heralding a massive project that will deprive locals of their waterfront view. [i'm not sayin', i'm just saying']
Posted 05/18/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Park Slope Send Arab School to Boerum Hill
Boerum Hill: The proposed Arabic language and culture school so infuriated Park Slopers that the city decided to put it in Boerum Hill. [The Brooklyn Paper] Brooklyn Heights: Last chance to buy tickets for the Brooklyn Heights House Tour tomorrow. [Brownstoner] Chelsea: Someone's looking for information on what a building on the north side of Seventh Avenue between 23 and 24th Streets looked like in the sixties and seventies. [Blog Chelsea] Park Slope: The Brooklyn Blogfest was last night, giving bloggers an opportunity to see daylight, and each other. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn] Williamsburg: After months of wondering, the new rendering of 184 Kent Street causes a significant "whoa." [Curbed]
Posted 05/11/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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It's All Downhill From Morningside Heights
Boerum Hill: It's not enough that the Brooklyn House of Detention could reopen. Besides room for 720 inmates, look for two towers with residential or commercial space. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle via mcbrooklyn] Clinton Hill: Residents of the area's southern flank, rejoice … a bank (a North Fork) is finally coming to Fulton and Clinton! [Brooklyn Record] Greenpoint: Residents come together to complain to a building inspector about excessive noise and damage caused by construction at 110 Green Street. [Newyorkshitty] Harlem: The Beaumont, a 63-unit Art Deco apartment building on Riverside Drive, has been sold for just over $20 million. [Uptown Flavor] Morningside Heights: This area has the greatest number of bike commuters — after Park Slope, of course. [Streetsblog] Park Slope: A local brothel is undergoing a renovation. But what will the building be now? [Curbed]
Posted 05/10/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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A Jail With Retail Space — Now That's Gentrification
Bedford-Stuyvesant: That mysterious door on Bedford with the funky lady painted on it? It leads to a private party space … holla! [Bed-Stuy Blog] Boerum Hill: The Brooklyn Detention Center on Atlantic and Smith (a.k.a. the slammer) may be ready to reopen its doors, with twice its former space including ground-floor retail, by summer. Shoplifters discouraged. [McBrooklyn] Chelsea: "Don't Buy It Destroy All Condos!" proclaims some tagging on an AmEx billboard on Tenth and 23rd. [BlogChelsea] Coney Island: New renderings present the proposed look of 152 co-op units and a community center on West 30th Street off Surf Avenue. [Kinetic Carnival] Flatbush: Gentrification alert! FreshDirect will soon begin delivering to new Zip Codes east and south of Prospect Park. [Brooklynian via Brooklyn Record] Greenpoint: Has Magic Johnson's 110 Green development destabilized an adjacent building? [Newyorkshitty]
Posted 05/09/07 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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