By Ariella Cohen
HDR / Daniel Frankfurt
Bridge ‘Park’: A futuristic, pod-like pedestrian bridge has emerged as a likely solution to an urban design problem that has vexed planners for years: how do you connect the famed Brooklyn Heights Promenade to the waterfront below — and avoid angering the posh neighborhood’s various interest groups at the same time?
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By Christie Rizk
Downtown: The Montague Street hamburger wars have begun! A new joint, Five Guys, will soon open right near two beloved neighborhood greasy spoons, Grand Canyon and Happy Days.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown plan: Talk about the Manhattanization of Brooklyn: A new mega-development slated for the booming border of Fort Greene and Downtown is being built by the same real-estate giant that built a luxury Xanadu with a Whole Foods in the lobby on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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By Lilo H. Stainton
Downtown: A vicious stabbing — and all the other crime news from the Heights, Downtown and DUMBO.
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By Michael Giardina
Downtown: Can a French delicacy — made by an Israeli — make it on Brooklyn’s meanest street?
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist on the latest effort to save some historic — and possibly slave-linked — houses on Duffield Street.
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By Christie Rizk
Downtown: The toughest corner in the history of Brooklyn Heights — the so-called “Corner of Cranberry” on Henry Street — is about to welcome some new victims … er, tenants.
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