While John Grisham’s Playing for Pizza and Alice Sebold’s The Almost Moon top the New York Times‘ best sellers list, we’re poking our heads into BookCourt in Cobble Hill to see what Brooklynites are tucking into their totes.
Out in the Manhattan suburb (sorry, it’s true!), where baby strollers, daddy-actor types Read More
We missed this article on Friday about one of our favorite bookstores, Cobble Hill's BookCourt.
In the late 1990's, whining about the fate of independent bookstores was a favorite pastime in a certain New York demographic. But the counterexamples are starting to crop up: For every Madison Avenue Bookshop there is a Corner Bookstore; Shakespeare Read More
A tipster found the above flier in his Cobble Hill mailbox and passed it along to The Real Estate. Universal City Studios plans a film called “Baby Mama” about a 35-year-old real-estate developer played by Tina Fey (that’s believable) trying to have a baby by surrogate (the surrogate’s “South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowski” Read More
When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. Cecilia’s church would have been prominent on the low-slung skyline. These days, it sits in the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But on Read More
Oct 26, 2006
2:39 a.m.
7 pounds, 8 ounces
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Birthing Center
When Cobble Hill resident Gina Schmeling went into labor with her firstborn, Creeley, now 3, she inspired warfare (or a fare war, as the case may be) between two cabbies. “Both drivers showed up and fought on our street about who would Read More
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Early in August, the Housing Works Thrift Shops flagship at 143 West 17th Street reopened after a sad two-month absence.
Why? “What we did was open it up, took everything out, ripped up the carpet” said H.W.T.S. President Matthew Bernardo. “We found the original Read More
Spidey, it’s raining! How ’bout a kiss!
Word has come from our spies that shooting for Spider-Man 3 has engulfed the Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill neighborhood. Crusty old men are swearing at hipper-than-thou production assistants, and the Cobble Hill Cinema has been temporarily changed to Stuyvesant Cinemas.
What The Real Estate wants to know is Read More
Word comes from the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier that Paul Newman is interested in developing a racetrack at an old Brooklyn airstrip in Floyd Bennett Field, a former airport and Naval base in Jamaica Bay.
The $15 million project, which is in its preliminary stages, needs the approval of the National Parks Service, Read More
The Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier checks the nabe’s barometer after the recent closings of several mom-and-pop stores, which were then turned into a Dunkin’ Donuts and other neighborhood-unspecific commercial ventures.
Words of wisdom: “Every dollar you spend at Starbucks goes to Seattle …. ”
But with some spaces commanding $16,000 a month in Read More
