Posted 10/29/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
New Real-Estate Record-Breaker in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Heights mansion goes for $10.8 mil.
Posted 10/27/08 in Daily Intel
The Greatest Show of Our Time
‘Gossip Girl’ Goes Fancy in Brooklyn
A tipster spotted the cast of the Greatest Show of Our Time readying for the infamous Snowflake Ball, which will take place … in BK?
Posted 10/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Brooklyn Heights Soil at High Risk of Stroke Due to Salt Levels
Damn those waterfalls! Now Brooklyn Heights is totally at risk for hypertension.
Posted 08/28/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Brooklynites Are Really Getting Salty About the Waterfalls
Brooklyn Heights trapped in salty spray! Williamsburg choked by toxic cloud! Kew Gardens easy prey to overdevelopment! Hoods under siege … in today’s boroughs report!
Posted 08/27/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
I.M. Pei to Appear in Chinatown
The reclusive architect will show up at the reopening of the Museum of Chinese in America, the ‘pop-up park’ gets another month in Brooklyn Heights, and a pretty new footpath uptown on the High Bridge doesn’t mean you still can’t find drugs in the park! All in today's boroughs report.
Posted 08/25/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
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 08/19/08 in Daily Intel
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Murray Hill Graffiti — Touched (Inappropriately) By an Angel?
A cheeky street artist quotes Saint Teresa of Ávila, a hot-dog cart explodes, and jazz decamps to Brooklyn — that, and more, in our daily borough roundup.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Now Brooklyn Heights Is Climbing Aboard the Ikea Whine Wagon
The Wonder Wheel is 88! On 8/8/08! Whee! Climb aboard the daily boroughs report and drink in the view!
Posted 08/06/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Punk Celebration in Tompkins Square Park Cited — Shockingly — for Noise Violation
Tribeca's ritzy rooftops, Howard Beach's sacred litter, the East Village's decibel-dueling bands, and Brooklyn Heights' unsolved stab death: all in today's nabes report, which hits four outta five boroughs!
Posted 08/05/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Joshua Kushner: Jared 2.0?
Jared Kushner's developer bro rocks the East Village shul crowd, the waterfalls installation is killing the trees at River Café, barges are rotting in Jamaica Bay, and scruffle venue Studio B in Greenpoint is shuttered. In today's hood roundup!
Posted 07/29/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
McKibbin Street Cinéma-vérité: Mesmerizing, Terrifying
A mysterious video of a bunch of kids hanging around McKibbin Street spawns a new urban legend (in our minds), and more, in today's tour around the boroughs.
Posted 07/22/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Chelsea Hotel Bars Right to Peaceably Assemble
Illegal and blatant fruit stands in Brooklyn Heights, Donatella in the Clock Tower building, and maybe even rats on a beach (awesome potential metal-band name, right?) in Staten Island: That wackness and more, in today's neighborhood report.
Posted 07/16/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Ikea Shuttle-Crisis Solved?
Plus the sad old buildings of the Bowery and Gowanus, the ecoartist of Bushwick, and the developmentally disabled clown lovers of Staten Island, in our daily borough report.
Posted 07/07/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
‘Ugly Betty’ Watch Begins!
America and friends come to Dumbo, Betsey Johnson sells her Village penthouse and moves uptown, and the hipsters still haven't taken over the Giglio Feast in W'burg. That and more in our daily boroughs report!
Posted 06/26/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
John Varvatos Replaces Indies With Undies
Unbelievable trauma visited upon the children of the Slope, outer Queens folks take a protest of a "whore motel" out to Great Neck, and John Varvatos's carrionlike radar takes him to the meatpacking district. And other stuff in our daily hood scoper.
Posted 06/19/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The G Train: Helping Greenpoint Keep It Real
They're not too gentrified in Greenpoint to transcend the crummy G train, not too Ikea-fied in Red Hook to alienate Santogold, and not too cranky in Brooklyn Heights to bitch about smaller OJ cartons. So we're not too proud to say this: that and more in today's boroughs report!
Posted 05/21/08 in Daily Intel
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Follow the Arrows of Light to the Brooklyn Bridge (or, Um, Get Lost and Mugged)
The search for Miss Brooklyn's new moniker at Atlantic Yards, a happy ending for imperiled St. Brigid's Church in Alphabet City, and some cute-cute-cute rescued kitties in Astoria! All in our daily borough report.
Posted 05/07/08 in Daily Intel
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Scaffolding Already Up for Giant Waterfall Sculptures
Pesky squirrels in Astoria, a not-dead-yet beaver in the Bronx, and a baby born in the Port Authority. Furry little creatures abound in our daily boroughs report!
Posted 05/02/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Park Slope Already Nervous About Their Portrayal on Darren Star’s Show
Will ousted tenants in W'burg ever be allowed home? Will anyone go to SoBro for the floating pool? And will you make it to Monday without our daily boroughs report?
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