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• Underground Railroad Landmarks to Become Underground Garage

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:17 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Chelsea, Coney Island, Downtown Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Harlem, Lower East Side, Soho

  recently? [Gowanus Lounge] Downtown Brooklyn: It's increasingly likely that those Duffield Street homes believed to have been stops on the Underground Railroad will soon be replaced by, among other things, an underground parking garage. Inspiring. [Brooklyn Eagle via Duffield St. Underground] Greenpoint: Looks like an open-air weekend

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• ‘If These Walls Could Talk, They'd Probably Be Screaming’

  Published: August 21, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bronx, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Forest Hills, Soho

  next to the incoming Brooklyn Trader Joe's has caused a kerfuffle – developers want to build higher than zoning permits, but Borough president Marty Markowitz doesn't want to set a bad precedent. Mm. We're not sure "kerfuffle" is the word he'd use. [Brownstoner] Downtown Brooklyn: The city has decided to use its powers of eminent

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• All Peeping Toms to Third Avenue, Stat

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Downtown Brooklyn, East Village, Williamsburg

  next year. [Gowanus Lounge] Downtown Brooklyn: The site harboring a huge pile of rubble right near MetroTech could soon become home to the borough's tallest building. Yep, taller than the Williamsburg Bank. And that's pretty tall. [McBrooklyn] East Village: Until they install bigger venetian blinds at the new 110 Third Avenue condo, there's

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• 110 Livingston Residents in 'Window Rebellion'

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Real Estate For Sale

  [Photo courtesy of McBrooklyn] Those holes in the 110 Livingston banner? Looks like some of the new residents were "a little upset about not being able to use the windows," according to McBrooklyn, which got the shot of the now Swiss Cheese-looking ad. Oh, and in case you're interested, residents on the west-facing side of the building are

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• To Do: Brooklyn Book Festival

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Arts, Books, Creative, Culture, Downtown Brooklyn, Events, Neighborhood, News

  events. Eight hours. The Brooklyn Book Festival is back. Certainly, borough president Marty Markowitz does enough trumpeting for all of us, but I can't help but do a little extra promotion myself. Most impressive is the broad range of offerings whether you are a writer, reader, publisher, comic geek, poet, wannabe or just someone who

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• Social Unrest on G Platform

  Published: September 21, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo, Greenpoint, Harlem, Prospect Heights, Washington Heights, Williamsburg

  tomatoes? [Newyorkshitty] Downtown Brooklyn: A bunch of Morgan Stanley employees were caught on camera cornholing in Cadman Plaza Park yesterday. [McBrooklyn] Dumbo: Yep, Dave Walentas — and a few other big local developers — went down in the dunk tank last night at a fund-raiser to preserve the hood's brick streets. [Brownstoner]

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• Floorplan Antiporn Update: Video Walk-through Antiporn!

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Design Shelter, Real Estate For Rent

  Street studio apartment in Brooklyn last week was a good gag, but this has taken a turn for the weird. The listing has been updated with a more complete floorplan, showing that you have to pass through a basement storage area to get to the front door. And if that's not enough, there are now pictures and a video walk-through, which—if it

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• CurbedWire: W Sales, Murray Hill's Bright Future, Return of Duffield Dump

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Curbedwire, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Murray Hill

  the Shvo-marketed W New York Downtown, the coming hotel-condo at 123 Washington Street. The sales office is around the corner at 90 West Street, which Femia notes used to be Moran's steakhouse before 9/11. Oh, that Femia. [CurbedWire Inbox] CHELSEA—A reader had this amusing follow-up to a Times story today about a couple who renovated their

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• Atlantic Antic: Sixpoint's New Beer, Other Mayhem

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:04 am

  Tags: Downtown Brooklyn, Events, Food Drink

  This Sunday from 10am to 6pm, you can experience the wonder of the Atlantic Antic (check out the food map). Sadly, we will be missing due to a trip to Texas, but I'm convinced ABL readers will drink Sixpoint's specially made beer (Atlantic Antic Amber) in sufficient quantities so our absence  will not be noted.  As for food, my favorites

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• CurbedWire: Chelsea Bicyclists Harder to Hit, High on Newtown Creek, Oro Does TV Ads

  Published: October 1, 2007, 5:35 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Greenpoint, Curbedwire, Manhattan Chelsea

  time. [CurbedWire Inbox] DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN—We don't know know how sales at the Oro Condo on Flatbush Avenue are doing, but they're advertising on TV as per an email that says, "Did you catch the Oro Condo in Brooklyn commercial? During Stargate Atlantis on Friday (SCI-FI) the commercial shows a pool at the ORO and then shows a bathtub in

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• It Happened One Weekend: Actual Affordable Apartments!

  Published: October 1, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Flatbush Kensington, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Soho, Queens Astoria Beyond, Real Estate For

  Square Park: almost perfect. Brooklyn Borough Hall: "Brooklyn could be defined by this space." Bleecker Street: no cars! Battery Park City: "a mishmash of stuff that doesn’t fulfill human needs." 3) In Suzanne Slesin's latest real estate porn column, she heads to the 650 Sixth Avenue gallery because she's married to an art dealer, and she

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• Target Gets A Second Chance in Brooklyn

  Published: October 3, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Downtown Brooklyn

  is planning another store in Brooklyn at Albee Square Mall. Never heard of it? Me neither, but it's apparently just off Fulton Mall. Why two Targets within walking distance? Maybe the folks at Target headquarters have experienced the empty shelves and piss-poor customer service over at the Atlantic Center Target and decided to start fresh.

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• On the Racked: Marc Jacobs W. Village Takeover, Big Names Avoid Plaza, Yawns Over Kors in Soho, More

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Soho, Racked

  at that location. 4) Downtown Brooklyn: In case anyone missed the Racked exclusive yesterday, Target is planning a new Brooklyn store at the big, planned Albee Square development. Yes, it's very close to Target's Atlantic Mall location but that isn't likely to put a damper on the

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• BREAKING: Two Trees Renting Unsold Livingston Units

  Published: October 5, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Rent

  some buyers in the hot-shit Downtown Brooklyn building had backed out of their contracts, and the units were returning to the market at slight discounts. Word got out, and Two Trees then claimed it was all a marketing ploy, and the building would be sold-out in no time. Oh really? A Curbed source has passed along word that Two Trees is now

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• Short Reprieve for Brooklynites

  Published: October 9, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Downtown Brooklyn

  news: Property owners on two Brooklyn blocks that were about to be condemned as part of an urban renewal project are getting a short reprieve thanks to a bureaucratic blunder. The two blocks have attracted a good deal of attention because one of them, along Duffield Street, was supposedly a hotbed of Underground Railroad activity, and because the

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