By Staff 12/07/06 5:01pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • An $8.995 million triplex penthouse is awarded “Estate of the Day” honors at Luxist, a Web site that salivates over Arctic retreats and seaside sprawls. This Manhattan home has “raspberry parfait” walls, a wet bar, solarium, and six bedrooms. [Lux]
  • What should one get for his wealthy loved one this winter? “It’s impossible to Read More

    • By Staff 9/07/06 9:30am

    Old Family, New Era

    Here is a visually arresting piece of literature a reader picked up near the Borough Hall train stop in Brooklyn last night.

    Seeing the Statue of Liberty right behind the Brooklyn Bridge kind of catches your eye. But so does seeing the word words “New Era” anywhere near the name Tracy Boyland. Her brother, Read More

    By Staff 8/18/06 12:32pm

    Hillary Backtracks

    Our junior senator thinks condos are all right after all for Brooklyn Bridge Park, after thinking about it for eight days, The Brooklyn Papers reports.

    Meanwhile, today the Empire State Development Corporation, which is creating the park, filed court papers to evict three tenants on the piers whose leases, it says, have expired, spokesman Read More

    By Staff 8/14/06 12:44pm

    Clinton’s Brookyln Bridge Bash

    The Brooklyn Papers reported on Friday that Hillary Clinton is bashing the Brooklyn Bridge Park luxury condo plan. Sayeth Hill: “If parks had to be self-sustaining, would anyone have ever built a park?” … “Public land should be public land.”

    -Matthew Grace

    By Staff 6/23/06 11:52am

    E.D.C. Unveils Red Hook Waterfront Plan


    (from B61 Productions)

    B61 has the goods on last Monday’s Brookyln Community Board 6 meeting with the city’s Econoomic Development Corporation about the future of Piers 7 through 20 in Red Hook, 120 acres that run from the Atlantic Basin to the southern edge of the future Brooklyn Bridge Park.

    Features of the Read More

    By Staff 6/02/06 6:00pm

    Events for June 3-5, 2006

    On Saturday, New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement will rally outside of the Mexican Consulate for the nationwide “Hands Along the Border” protest against illegal immigration.

    Same-sex marriage proponents march across the Brooklyn Bridge and rally in Battery Park.

    Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn host a benefit concert at Hanson Place Central United Methodist Read More