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Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007

New Downtown Face: Vision of the future

By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Downtown plan: Downtown planners introduced on Thursday a glitzy vision of Downtown Brooklyn as a 24/7 destination — and neighborhood — putting snazzy window dressing on a retrenchment of the original notion that the Flatbush Avenue corridor and surrounding streets would be a booming business district. Comments (3).

Historic Dumbo? City considers landmarking

By Adam F. Hutton
DUMBO: DUMBO residents, civic organizations and the area’s most-prominent developer were unified in their support for recognizing the neighborhood as a historic district at a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing on Tuesday. Comment.

The DUMBO panhandle: Beggars choose rich nabe to ply trade

By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown: Panhandling in DUMBO has gotten out of hand, judging by complaints from area residents at a crime prevention meeting last week. Comments (2).

A midnight mugging on Montague Street

By Harry Cheadle
Downtown: A woman is robbed in her car on Flatbush Avenue — plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Dogs parade — no, really

By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist dresses up her dog and joins the party on the Promenade. Comment.

New group starts ‘watching’ DUMBO

By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown: Local cops came to DUMBO last week to tell residents and business owners how to protect themselves against the mini–crime wave that has hit the neighborhood since this summer, but a group of locals is putting pressure on the police to do more to stop it. Comment.
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