By Emily Geminder 10/06/09 4:05pm

P.S., I Love You: Popular Bookstore Relocates to Dumbo’s 70 Washington

An influx of celebrity authors, hipsters and rent-shocked Manhattan refugees is only the latest chapter in Brooklyn’s long-heralded bookish history. P.S. Bookshop, relocating to corner space at 70 Washington Street, promises to keep the borough’s literary blood circulating with its labyrinthine shelves of rare, used and first-edition books. Neither is Brooklyn’s next generation of bibliophiles Read More

By Emily Geminder 9/29/09 12:02pm

Blackbird Artists Flies Into Walentases’ Dumbo

It’s practically a law of real estate that the fermenting of artistic energies in a neighborhood also makes the rent prices blossom.

Down below the bridge in Brooklyn, in that cobblestoned colony of industrial-chic warehouses and galleries, there’s no denying that Dumbo is pretty creatively ripe. David and Jed Walentas’ Two Trees Management, which owns Read More