Red Hook Rooster With Girly Name Needs Home
Will you adopt Alicia Jr. before he becomes someone's meal?
Posted 01/07/09 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Red Hook Waterfront Plan to Keep Ports, But No Brooklyn Brewery
Plus, it'll incorporate a marina, arts space, and a swath of green!
Posted 12/11/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Parts of Brooklyn That Feel Richer and Whiter Really Are!
One-fifth of black and Hispanic families have left the west-of-Prospect-Park area in seven years.
Posted 12/04/08 in Daily Intel
Real-Estate Porn
Real World: Brooklyn House: Headache-y
The Gothamist crew got a peek into the 'Real World' Red Hook loft, and it ain't pretty.
Posted 11/14/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
What Will Go Atop the BQE If They Put a Lid on It?
Mayor wants housing, locals want pretty mini-parks, some just want more bridges.
Posted 08/18/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Soho Knows ‘Rod Stewart Loves the Hamptons’
A rogue graffiti artist really wants you to believe that the aging rocker really has a thing for the East End. And for palm trees. Plus, pandas in Union Square, a ‘Gossip Girl’ spat, and more in our daily borough report.
Posted 08/11/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Whole Foods to Alter Brooklyn Plans
Poor undertrafficked, overcharitable Ikea! Poor Slopies thinking only poor people have public sex! (Not!) So many people to feel sorry for in today's rainy, weepy boroughs report.
Posted 07/25/08 in Daily Intel
Vu.
‘Real World’ Still Fishing Around Red Hook
Turns out the cast members won't be living on Pier 41 — but they'll still be right near Ikea!
Posted 07/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Red Hook Residents Already Groaning Over ‘Real World’ Invasion
The disingenuous denizens of Red Hook, the doomed views of the West 15th Street co-op dwellers, and the junk food–craving office gals of Long Island City, all wrapped up into our daily boroughs report like the contents of a vegan burrito!
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 07/11/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Does the Ability to Comment Anonymously on Blogs Turn Us Into Monsters?
Or are we monsters to begin with? Comment on that and the other media, finance, real-estate, and law news in our daily roundup.
Posted 07/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Ikea Buses for All — Even Recovering Heroin Addicts!
Stuy Town laundry thieves are being surveilled, Carroll Gardens raccoon cheerleaders speak out, Ikea bus riders forego affordable design for methadone, and much more, in our 'Ruby Tuesday' boroughs roundup.
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 07/03/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Who Eats Hot Wings at 8:30 in the Morning?
Apparently, East Villagers do. That, and dish from Long Island City, Harlem, and Red Hook, in our daily neighborhood roundup.
Posted 06/27/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Would You Want to Live in the Same Building As the Cast of ‘The Real World’?
The Belltel lofts marketing plan sputters, things get ugly in Forest Hills, and folks are backed up in Red Hook. That and more in our boroughs-report week-capper.
Posted 06/24/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The High Line: Now With Seating!
The old Domino Sugar plant keeps its cool sign, the Village likely loses a theater save its façade, and the High Line gains its first bench! More wins and losses in today's boroughs report.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Can Regina Spektor Make Murray Hill Cool?
Regina Spektor moves into Murray Hill, Carroll Gardens' Ivy League hipster types strike back against last week's maudlin anti-yuppie video, and a celeb hip-hop stylist's body turns up in the Bronx. Plus, news from Red Hook, Long Island City, Dumbo, and Coney in today's boroughs roundup.
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 06/18/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Tom Wolfe and Aby Rosen Continue to Get on Each Other’s Nerves
The writer disses Norman Foster on the Upper East Side, erotic yet "tender" art is nixed in the South Bronx, and more Ikea mania, in our hump-day boroughs report.
Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
Swedish Fishing: The Wait for the Red Hook Ikea Opening
We talked to those hardy souls who will wait in line for anything — even a discount Scandanavian sofa.
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