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Brooklyn Bridge Park. Eagle file photo by Lore Croghan

OPINION: Way to Brooklyn Bridge Park shouldn’t necessarily be through ‘Narrow Streets of Cobblestone’

By all accounts, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a smashing success. With its remarkable waterfront vistas, the park, which stretches from Pier 6 near Atlantic Avenue, to Jay Street in DUMBO, attracts huge numbers of people every year — both New Yorkers and tourists. … Full Article
 
Photo courtesy of the Green-Wood Historic Fund

Green-Wood Cemetery awarded Level II Accreditation

The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and The Morton Arboretum have announced that Green-Wood Cemetery has been awarded a Level II Accreditation. … Full Article
 
Speakers at Tuesday’s meeting included City Councilmember Stephen Levin (right), state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon’s Chief of Staff Ptahra Jeppe (center) and CPN Board President Ted Valand. Eagle photos by Cody Brooks

Town hall meeting discusses controversial issues in Brooklyn Heights

A town hall meeting explored controversial issues in the Brooklyn Heights area on Tuesday night, discussing the effects a “condo economy” is having on the neighborhood’s residents. … Full Article
 
Franco Scala at the Ground Breaking for his Brownstones of Thornton Park project in Orlando, Florida.

Franco Scala's brownstones of Thornton Park inspired by Carroll Gardens' architecture

Last year, The Brownstones of Thornton Park near downtown Orlando, Florida, held the groundbreaking ceremony  for a new  $6 million residential development project that will give Orlando's most stylish district  … Full Article
 
This glimpse of 160 Imlay St. tucked behind Van Brunt Street rowhouses charms us, though we have photographed it before. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

Construction keeps on rolling at 160 Imlay St. in Red Hook

Full speed ahead. The residential conversion of one of Red Hook's most distinctive industrial buildings, 160 Imlay St., rolls on with the return of warm weather. … Full Article
 
Developers are doing a condo conversion at 51 Jay St. in DUMBO. Rendering courtesy of Heavenly

Speedy condo sales at DUMBO's 51 Jay St.

Hot Hot Hot. The sizzling DUMBO luxury condo market has been written about again and again. Nevertheless, we want to offer a fresh example of vibrant demand — because we're obsessed with the building in question, 51 Jay St.   … Full Article
 
Mark Morris Dance Center, whose Lafayette Avenue home base is shown here, will build two new studios at 280 Ashland Place, the development that's being constructed behind the fence at right. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

New studios planned for Mark Morris Dance Center

Bravo! for Mark Morris Dance Center, which plans to build two new studios at a development next door to its home base at 3 Lafayette Ave. … Full Article
 
Here's a rendering of Brooklyn Cultural District development 280 Ashland Place (c.) — where the Center for Fiction will be moving. Rendering by Dattner Architects and Bernheimer Architecture

The Center for Fiction is moving to the Brooklyn Cultural District

Book lovers rejoice! The Center for Fiction is moving its headquarters to the Brooklyn Cultural District. … Full Article
 
Opponents of the Pier 6 towers made their case at a meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation (BBPDC) at the Empire State Development on Monday. Shown: One of 14 proposals for the Pier 6 development. Rendering by Asymptote Architecture

Opponents of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 highrises: ‘Build only to support park!’

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation (BBPDC) began the public process to change the park’s General Park Plan (GPP) at a board meeting held at the Empire State Development Corp. (ESD) on Monday. … Full Article
 
Robert Furman’s book about Brooklyn Heights, “The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America’s First Suburb,” will be released on July 13. Photo courtesy of The History Press

New Book highlights ‘fascinating tapestry’ of Brooklyn Heights

Robert Furman, president of the Brooklyn Preservation Council Foundation, will release his new book “The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America’s First Suburb,” on July 13, bringing to life one of New York’s most historic neighborhoods — Brooklyn Heights. … Full Article
 

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