NEIGHBORHOODS

DUMBO

 … Full Article

A Brooklyn Heights wine and spirits shop and a Cobble Hill art gallery are rallying the community behind a local artist who needs expensive treatment for leukemia. … Full Article

If it seems like there’s more filming on the streets of Brooklyn than ever before – there is. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bridge Park released two Requests for Proposals (RFPs) yesterday for food concessionaires at Pier 6/Atlantic Avenue and in the Smokestack Building at Water Street and Old Fulton Street in Fulton Ferry Landing on the edge of DUMBO. … Full Article

Building on DUMBO’s strength in media and all things digital, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials gathered in Brooklyn on Thursday to announce that a state-of-the-art “Made in NY” Media Center will be constructed at 20 Jay Street in DUMBO, overlooking Brooklyn Bridge Park. … Full Article

Police are seeking a suspect who is wanted in connection with seven attempted burglaries that occurred within the 84th Precinct. … Full Article

These commercial filmmakers waited from dawn till dusk to get just the right lighting for some footage of this building in DUMBO at the Pearl Street Triangle. … Full Article

With the view from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway now blocked by construction, tourists are climbing onto the girders to catch the sights.  … Full Article

An official of Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday responded to recent criticism, spotlighted in a Brooklyn Paper article called “Yards in the Park,” of the fact that there will be small, fenced-off enclosures outside three of the five structures that are to be built on the uplands of Pier 1. … Full Article

Members of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights celebrated Simchat Torah, or the feast of the giving of the Torah, on Remsen Street yesterday. The festival comes at the end of the eight-day holiday of Sukkot. Seen center, holding a child: Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin. … Full Article