Norah Jones, meet your new neighbors: Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are moving into a pair of townhouses in south Brooklyn Heights on the Cobble Hill border on State Street near Sidney Place. The New York Daily News‘ real estate guru Jason Sheftell reported late Friday that the family is closing in on […]
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“When it comes to charming brownstone Brooklyn characteristics, Cobble Hill has pretty much got all the key requirements covered.” That’s the opening of an 850-word expose profiling Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood that appeared in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. The piece by Joseph De Avila offers a complimentary persona of the nabe’s “tree-lined blocks, stately townhomes […]
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Many of the books about the Holocaust that have recently found their way to this household have described what…
March 23, 2012Halstead Property has purchased two smaller firms in Cobble Hill and Park Slope, where it is expanding its Brooklyn business, according to The Real Deal. With the purchase of Cobble Heights Realty and Heights Berkeley Realty, Halstead now has five storefront offices in Brooklyn. The new outposts “secure us two wonderful locations,” Trish Martin, Brooklyn […]
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Now that he has finally shaken off Harry Potter, actor Daniel Radcliffe is ready to play some meaty grown-up roles, including the curly-headed lead in upcoming film “Kill Your Darlings,” where he is taking on beat poet Allen Ginsburg. With …
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We forget, often, that artifacts survive us, but survive they do, and that is one of the points that…
March 19, 2012When Hurricane Irene swept through New York City last August, fear and speculation about its strength – and potential…
March 16, 2012CBS New York has posted on its website bids for the five best watering holes in Cobble Hill. Sounds like a good reason for a bar crawl, huh? The list—which you can see with full descriptors here—was compiled by Jonathan Pogash, a.k.a. The Cocktail Guru, a beverage consultant, writer and educator. He notes, “Cobble Hill, […]
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Residential brokerage Aptsandlofts.com is opening a storefront in Cobble Hill, its first outside of its Williamsburg, Brooklyn base. The 2,000-square-foot retailer will launch by the end of June at 236 Court Street, says Crain’s New York Business. Aptsandlofts.com’s founder and president David Maundrell says that the new office is part of his plan to double […]
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From about 1915 through about 1970 more than six million former slaves and descendants of slaves left the Jim…
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