- Willowtowners worry about traffic from Fieldhouse crowds at BBPark. BHB
- Steiner Studios has purchased the Jardin, a 44-unit Williamsburg luxury rental building, for $38 million. Crain's
- Photos from opening day at McCarren Pool. Brokelyn and Gothamist
- Brooklyn 14-year-old boy brain dead after shooting. WSJ
- NY's anti-bullying law goes into effect Sunday; De Blasio's organizing a roundtable. Brooklyn Eagle
- That 88-year-old Williamsburg grandma with a beer company doesn't exist. Gothamist
- Summer beer garden at Brooklyn Historical Society. Examiner
- How did they do that? Graffiti artist tags the Brooklyn Bridge. Gothamist
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- A state judge ordered the Empire State Development Corp. to revisit its environmental review for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project. NY Post
- The Willowtown Association to present the "Alfred" Awards. BHB
- Did you know you shouldn't try to rinse mace out of your eyes with water? Especially in a Duane Reade? Brooklyn Eagle
- People don't want to eat in C-grade restaurants. Gothamist
- Brooklyn's "Scariest Bar" is no more. Grub Street
- Growing Threat: Healthy woman takes antibiotics for minor dental problem, dies days later from super bug. Brooklyn Eagle
- The woman who fell through a crack in the sidewalk. NY Magazine
- One of our favorite old buildings, the historic Jay Street firehouse, is finally going to be renovated. Brownstoner
- The art of the Facebook Super Log-Off. NY Magazine
- Have you seen this missing Brooklyn teen? He was last seen on Adams Street near Tillary. Village Voice
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- The plan to merge Long Island College Hospital with SUNY Downstate has some supporters, but also a large group of doctors who are vehemently opposed. Brooklyn Eagle
- The Division of Housing and Community Renewal has denied the Riverside Apartments building owner’s plans to construct an underground garage/garden. Brooklyn Paper
- For shame: The treasurer of the Gristedes supermarket chain -- Michael Seltzer --was charged with trying to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online (who turned out to be a cop). NY Post
- Brooklyn home prices fell 16 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier and sales of new condominiums slid by almost half. Bloomberg
- David Letterman posted his largest weekly victory over The Tonight Show since 2000. Is Conan losing his grip? Gawker
- When Housing Works on Montague St. was "Mammy's Pantry." Pardon Me For Asking
- O.M.G. The Republicans are promoting their new web site -- only problem is, it's filled with obscenity, degrading images and stereotypes. Seriously. AMERICAblog via Huff Post
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After years of going empty, it looks like the old Riverside Deli on the ground floor of the Brooklyn Heights' historic Riverside Apartments at Columbia Place and Joralemon Street is getting ready for a new tenant.
Workers have been giving the site a redo for the last week or more. One worker told McBrooklyn that he thought a new deli would be going in.
In April, McBrooklyn reported that many of the retail sites on the ground floor of the complex had been put up for rent. It's long been a mystery as to why the controversial owner of the apartments (the Pinnacle Group) cleared out the retail tenants on the ground floor and left the spaces empty for years.
Last month, a tree in the Riverside Apartments' courtyard "with a trunk so large it couldn’t be embraced by tree-huggers” was dedicated to the memory of Brooklyn humanitarian Alfred Tredway White (1846-1921) at the Willowtown Association’s annual fair.
The tree and several other towering elms and sycamores are to be uprooted if a proposed parking garage is constructed in the courtyard, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
UPDATE here.
It's a rose bush on the corner of Joralemon Street and Columbia Place in Brooklyn Heights, and it's crying out to be re-potted.
A few years back, the Columbia Place Association transformed this short street -- running from Joralemon to State Streets -- into a lush, whimsical landscape. Plants were not only growing from barrels, they were sprouting from chairs hanging on posts, from tall boots, funny buckets, etc. In 1999 the street took 3rd place in the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest for "Most Creative Planters," and for several years thereafter the block was fabulously green
Adding to the allure of the Columbia Place was Alicia's Cafe, a flower shop and a general store, all on the ground floor of Alfred T. White's historic Riverside Houses.
The restaurant, flower shop and general store were mysteriously emptied by the owner, the controversial Pinnacle Group and partner Praedium, a couple of years ago. The planters are disintegrating.
(Incidentally, in May, the Landmarks Preservation Commission nixed Pinnacle's plans to uproot century-old trees and build a two-level garage in the courtyard of the Riverside House.)
The rose bush is in front of the closed general store on the corner, if anybody wants to give it a new barrel.
Photo by MK Metz
Crops that would make any farmer proud grow in a little community garden in Willowtown, Brooklyn.
Photos by MK Metz
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