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Downtown archive

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008

Camera captures deliveryman’s graffiti attack!

Brooklyn Heights: Mama mia! A saucy Papa John’s deliveryman sliced up a Brooklyn Heights elevator like it was a piping hot pie, but little did he know that a security camera recorded every last scratch. Comments (2).

Someone bought the haunted house!

Brooklyn Heights: One of Brooklyn Heights’s most-famous — and most-haunted — houses has sold for $4.95 million. Comment.

‘Park’ building seeks market, restaurant

Bridge ‘Park’: Developers started a new effort this week to attract retail tenants at the massive condo building at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Comments (1).

Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008

More anti-Semitism in Heights?

Brooklyn Heights: Police are investigating a possible bias crime in Brooklyn Heights after a Pineapple Street resident found an anti-Semitic note taped to her front door on Tuesday morning. Comment.

A true gym rat

Brooklyn Heights: A man’s wallet is stolen after a heated session on the treadmill. Plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Downtown and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Meet the city’s best principal!

Brooklyn Heights: The best principal in the city is in Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

Claudia Corwin, Downtown legend, is dead

Downtown: Claudia Corwin, a community leader and the longtime president of the board of directors of Concord Village in Downtown Brooklyn, died suddenly on Nov. 25. She was 61. Comments (4).