So, let’s say you want to take a cab back to Brooklyn from Manhattan and you get in and the driver refuses to take you. What do you do? (Other than get into an argument with the driver or get out of the cab muttering.) It’s probably happened at least once to everyone. A GL […]

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The blogger behind 66 Square Feet, who has sent us many wonderful photos and items, dropped this into our inbox last night. She writes: “Happy June. This is a G&T in celebration of the ubiquitous, without which life would not be worth living for the next few months, wall air conditioning unit. My aptly named […]

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The controversial 110 Amity Street project in Cobble Hill won an important preliminary approval last night. In a surprise move, the developer Time Equities brought the project back before Community Board 6’s Land Use and Landmarks Committee for reconsideration. There was no public notice. The Committee, which had previously voted for a conditional disapproval of […]

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The development planned at 110 Amity Street in Cobble Hill, which would involve alteration of the historic Lamm Building and addition of new townhomes, got a chilly reception from Community Board 6 this week. The new Cobble Hill Association blog contains details of the meeting on Thursday night. The developer, Time Equities, has refused to […]

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What does the new proposal for 110 Amity Street (the former Amity Street Horror) look like? Few people know as the developer hasn’t released any renderings of the recooked plan. Of course, no developer has an obligation to publicly release renderings. Some gladly do. Others refuse to do so, either preferring to have vague descriptions […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] Ever about whether the old tree out front is going to survive a strong storm or wind? Here’s one that didn’t this weekend. Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sends this image of a tree that came down on President Street between Clinton and Hicks (Brownstoner had the same fallen tree […]

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New plans for 110 Amity Street in Cobble Hill, also known as the former Lamm Institute Building, are supposed to be show tonight. The original idea for the building was panned by the community and by the Landmarks Preservation Commission before being withdrawn by the developer so that suggestions from the community could be incorporated. […]

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Earlier this year, the City Council passed a law requiring non-food service business with more than 5,000 square feet or ones that are part of a chain with five or more stores in the city to start accepting plastic bags for recycling by late July. This means that most drugstores, supermarkets and big chains will […]

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The 110 Amity Street proposal in Cobble Hill, which had been dubbed the “Horror” by critics, is coming back after going back to the drawing board for what was said to be a serious rethinking. The developer and architects will be making a presentation to the community on Monday, May 19 from 7PM-9PM at Long […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] Who says that Park Slope is the stroller capital of Brooklyn? Well, statistical analysis might reveal more Maclarens per capita than elsewhere, but there are other neighborhoods that can give the Slope a serious run for its money in terms of stroller jams. Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent captured this […]

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Ever wonder what the rooftops in, say, Cobble Hill are like or what the views are? The blogger behind 66 Square Feet sent us a set of shots that give a taste of rooftop life. We especially like the views both of the Brooklyn skyline and down to the streets of Cobble Hill.

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This is one of our favorite “Say What” photos yet, as it combines the beauty of spring with an obstructed street sign. This sign in Cobble Hill is also tagged up, but what makes it perfect are the beautiful crataegus flowers. The kind of flowers they are is not something we know, but what we […]

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Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent along a couple of photos of the closed business on at Verandah Place and Clinton in Cobble Hill, noting the interesting sign in the window. At the end of last year, the space was in the midst of a big renovation and takeover by Cafe on Clinton. It was supposed […]

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We got an email from the Cobble Hill Association, which is having its Spring 2008 Meeting on Monday, May 12, at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at the Kane Street Synagogue, which is between Court Street and Tompkins Place. The agenda includes the nomination of officers for 2008 and a presentation about “predators […]

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The GL reader who sent us this photo of the David Walentas building going up on Atlantic Avenue near Court Street (next to the old bank building that will house the Trader Joe’s) called it “Brooklyn Growth.” He wrote, “Even with the construction going on the Walentas residential property next to the upcomign trader joes… […]

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Court Street, Cobble Hill

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The South Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance–whose formation we noted in an exclusive report here on March 5 and whose name and status we updated last Thursday–has officially announced itself. It involves groups from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Red Hook’s Columbia Waterfront District. A press release from SoBNA went out last night and it […]

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Probably no neighborhood dry cleaner in Brooklyn has closed with more public notice and mourning than Trusting Cleaners on Court Street. The shop closed on March 15 and today about 250 people are expected for a farewell party at the Kane Street Synagogue. The Oh family was in business for 25 years. They had to […]

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Visible work is finally picking up on the conversion of Cobble Hill’s 156-year-old Strong Place Church, whose interior we visited before the start of work. “The structure—which has long reminded me of a bombed-out ruin you might find in postwar Dresden—has very visibly been getting the fresh starts of a roof in recent weeks. It […]

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Another tree starts to bloom.

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Local writer Gabriel Cohen, who is a wonderful person and whose work we admire, is doing a reading and presentation tonight (3/11) at BookCourt in Cobble Hilll. He will be presenting the third book he’s published in the last year, Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky: The Buddhist Path through Divorce. It’s a very personal story […]

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How often does a neighborhood throw a party to say thank you when a business closes? Well, Cobble Hill is throwing one for Trusting Cleaners, the beloved dry cleaners on Court Street who are being forced out because of rising rent and a landlord that has ignored neighborhood pleas, a petition and entreaties from local […]

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“The world is now safe from the Rat-Squirrel House. Relatively, anyway.” Some scaffolding has gone up around Cobble Hill’s most compellingly interesting structure. “Imagine the first floor surrounded by a green wooden box of scaffolding on top of blue metal poles and capped with a sprawling plywood bowl the shape of a giant catcher’s mitt—all […]

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The Rat-Squirrel House of Cobble Hill is one of those stories that you know is going to have legs: a decrepit house amidst valuable property with a possible eccentric person living inside with rodents. Come on, you know it’s going to show up on TV and in a couple of papers. The real question is: […]

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When last we heard about the 110 Amity Street development, the developer had sent out an email saying that they were going back to the drawing board to redesign the project so that it would be more in line with the community’s wishes. There had been objections a number of elements of the project, most […]

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