Elizabeth Stribling, founder of Stribling & Associates real-estate brokerage, made headlines in 2008 when she relocated from the Upper East Side’s East 84th Street to Brooklyn Heights, in a record-setting $6.6 million 12th-floor 3,442SF pad at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. This month, she is profiled in The Real Deal in a story titled “Stribling: The [...]
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‘Real Deal’ Profiles Heights’ Resident & Highbrow Broker Elizabeth Stribling
Local Performer Leads Sensorial Journey Through “Farm to Table” Process
Dance and performance artist Carrie Ahern brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “you are what you eat” with her current project that delves into the connections between humans and the animals that many of us consume. “For years, this question about sustainable food had been bothering me,” says Ahern, a Wisconsin native who… FULL STORY
Crossing Dumbo: Video Portrait of Stefan Killen
Episode 8: Stefan Killen (stefankillendesign.com and pinholeny.com) Directed by David Castillo Produced by Blue Barn Pictures, Inc. for DumboNYC on vimeo In this episode of Crossing Dumbo, Blue Barn Pictures interviews Dumbo based artist Stefan Killen, a graphic designer and pinhole photographer. Pinhole photography involves a handmade pinhole camera, a small cardboard box wrapped in [...]
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Brooklyn Heights People: Dan Horan of Five Acre Farms
To be clear, Five Acre Farms is not a farm at all. There is no pastoral landscape where cows graze, no ever-present smell of manure percolating the air. There is no big red barn, no silo, no wooden sign on an oak tree announcing that Five Acre Farms is two miles down the road to [...]
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Brooklyn Heights People: Dr. Dylan Kwait
In many ways, Brooklyn Heights resident Dylan Kwait is your typical psychotic person who decides to run a marathon: he’s young (33), active, and, as a radiology resident at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, barely able squeeze running into his hectic schedule. But in one really big way, Kwait is a rarity among marathoners, having been… FULL STORY
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The Pigeon Keepers of Bushwick
Mike Tyson ain’t the only guy in Brooklyn keeping boids. Brooklyn photographer Chris Arnade writes us about a documentary, Pigeon Keepers of Bushwick, that he’s recently worked on with Rattapallax Productions; I first noticed the beautiful flocks of pigeons high above Maria Hernandez park in Bushwick last summer. At the time I had no idea… FULL STORY
Crossing Dumbo: Video Portrait of Ken Goto of Jacques Torres Chocolate
In this episode of Crossing Dumbo, Blue Barn Pictures interviews Ken Goto, a business partner at the popular chocolate shop, Jacques Torres Chocolate. Jacques Torres and Ken Goto have been operating in Dumbo for over ten years and a supporter of the Dumbo neighborhood’s retail growth. Ken talks about how he got started in the… FULL STORY
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Andrew Dice Clay is Brooklyn Bound, and Not Missing a Beat
If Andrew Dice Clay wears his heart on his sleeve, then his love for Brooklyn is the aorta pumping blood through that heart. And on Saturday, October 1, for the first time in his decades long career, the famously lewd, famously New York comedian will finally come back home.
Brooklyn Heights People: Zak and Gillette Wing of Holler & Squall
Contrary to popular opinion, Atlantic Avenue west of Hicks Street is good for more than just a cheap brew at Montero’s, or a visit to the beautiful park at Pier Six. Turns out this oft-forgotten stretch of road is prime territory for obtaining a six-foot-long stuffed zebra from Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut estate. “I told Zak… FULL STORY
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Sheepshead Bay ‘Bites’ Less than Blogger Ned Berke Originally Thought
The last place Ned Berke thought he’d wind up was back home in Sheepshead Bay. Probably the second-to-last place he thought he’d wind up was online, blogging at SheepsheadBites.com about the southern Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up, covering the news and becoming something of a local celebrity. “I’ve always had wanderlust,” the 28-year-old Berke… FULL STORY
Mark Stansberry: Riding the Subway to Animation Dreams
Chances are, you’ve heard his pitch before. “Good morning, everybody. My name is Mark. I’m a local filmmaker here in the city. I make animated films and cartoons about this litter girl on my t-shirt; her name is Puddin’.” Everyday, between 6 o’clock in the morning and noon, 46-year old Mark Stansberry rides the subways… FULL STORY
Crossing Dumbo: Video Portrait of Michael Feigin
Episode 4: Michael Feigin (Fitness Guru) Directed by Matt Weckel Created by David Castillo Produced by Blue Barn Pictures, Inc. for DumboNYC on vimeo Michael Feigin MS, CSCS has been a leader in the fitness industry for over 20 years, as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor and nutritionist. He is the co-owner of The [...]
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Jesse Levitt’s Brooklyn Babies: Minor Arcana and Kings County
Jesse Levitt is almost everything the owner of two hip Brooklyn bars ought to be: offbeat but serious; nerdy but good-looking; creative but down-to-earth. The one thing he lacks, almost entirely? Ego. Seated in a wooden booth (that sometimes doubles as a stage) in his Prospect Heights watering hole Minor Arcana, Levitt, wearing a green,… FULL STORY
Brooklyn Heights Goes Wild with Julie Feinstein
Julie Feinstein has lived in Brooklyn Heights for 20 years, she thinks, but it is only in the last 18 months or so that she’s been able to really enjoy whatever it is that comprises this neighborhood’s urban wildlife. “This park has been fabulous,” she said, standing in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s grassy Pier One. She [...]
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A Tiger in the Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights
I recently met Cheryl Tan, Brooklyn Heights resident, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen, and all-around great gal. Cheryl’s work is part memoir and part cookbook, and details her travels to Singapore, where she reconnected with her family through cooking. More information about the book is on her site, and also in the above [...]
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Snooki’s Ghostwriter, Brooklyn Heights Resident Valerie Frankel, Speaks
Valerie Frankel—author, blogger, journalist—has lived in Brooklyn Heights since 1992, and in that time has watched the neighborhood change dramatically. Which can be both a blessing and a curse. “Where Heights Café is now, there used to be this really old-fashioned, greasy diner, where the underside of the table had an inch worth of gum,” [...]
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Brooklyn Tech: Big Spaceship’s Joshua Hirsch
It’s strange to think of a company founded in the year 2000 as a member of an “old guard,” but by Digital Dumbo standards, that’s exactly what Big Spaceship, a self-described digital creative agency, is. “It was all unfinished, raw space,” Joshua Hirsch, Big Spaceship’s Minister of Technology, said of their first home at 70 [...]
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Creativity has spilled forth from the classrooms of P.S. 8 and found its way onto the walls of the Urban Folk Art Gallery, thanks to the “How’s the Weather?” exhibition that features dozens of landscape paintings and drawings by first-grade students from the Brooklyn Heights elementary school. The group show marks the end of a… FULL STORY
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