By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Heights is full of holes — sinkholes and potholes, that is.
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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
Heights Lowdown: Maybe the behemouth should study Brooklyn before putting a store here.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Vegetarian Week is all well and good, but the Heights doesn’t have any vegetarian restaurants!
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: The third part in our trilogy about the battle between a DUMBO baker and a man scorned.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist dresses up her dog and joins the party on the Promenade.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist follows some anti-war marchers through Brooklyn Heights and discovers a new approach to ending the fighting in Iraq.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist stalks the less-than-elusive source of the raw meat stench in the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: The fire is out at St. Charles Borromeo School in Brooklyn Heights, but the building is hotter than ever — thanks to a decision by the Brooklyn Diocese to close the school and sell or lease the property.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: One of the three restaurants involved in a co-branding Web site called “the Corner of Cranberry” is already out of business. That’s a tough corner.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: A woman wants to save a historic tree in Brooklyn Heights — yet is meeting resistence.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist imagines Tony Soprano doing business in Brooklyn Heights.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist goes undercover to solve the parking mess on Pierrepont Street.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist delights in the tastes of fall.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: The Heights is no place for a bicyclist, our columnist finds.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all?
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Someone is making calls to convince Downtown residents that a big box store would be good for the Fulton Mall.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist ponders a career in public service.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hangs with the dorm kids of Brooklyn Heights.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Some people read the thermometer to judge the temperature. In DUMBO, we just check to see which end of Water Street is busy.
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By Christie Rizk
Downtown plan: Black Facts — a Downtown Brooklyn mainstay — was the canary in the coalmine. It closed last month and Downtown will never be the same — and that’s by design, unfortunately.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist finds that the answer, probably, is no.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown plan: Our columnist explores the wonder of Downtown — and worries about how long it will all last.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: At least one woman — our columnist — is not so happy about the arrival of George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: No one in the Heights likes the Fulton Mall — but the tourists love it.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: For a while now, DUMBO residents have been wondering why BoConcept and West Elm (both of them high-end furniture stores) ended up side by side on Front Street, while there isn’t a single pharmacy or several other vital stores in sight. Turns out, it was done on purpose.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hits the back room at Ricky’s and finds that she doesn’t even blush.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist defends a Brooklyn Heights barber under fire for his “hideous” neon sign.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Herve Poussot: Assaulted or assaulter? Let’s review some new evidence!
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hates the smell — but loves the taste — of those damn gingko nuts.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Being a carbohydrate lover in Brooklyn Heights is costly — and I don’t mean having to sacrifice your size-6 jeans —Â thanks to new price hikes on wheat.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist tries out Google’s new “Street Views” — and finds Brooklyn Heights frozen in time.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Everyone is focusing on Bruce Ratner’s deal with a slavery-linked bank, but meanwhile, the city is about to tear down homes linked to the Underground Railroad.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: A new art show on nannies gets our guest columnist thinking about their role in our neighborhood.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist sets out to examine the rat problem — and finds a man who shoots the vermin with an air rifle!
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By Harry Cheadle
Heights Lowdown: DUMBO is getting its own post office — sort of.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist visits with her Brooklyn Heights neighbors
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Why do baby strollers need to be the size of SUVs?
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To our columnist! Exclusively!
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: DUMBO: Star-gazers hanging around DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights in hopes of seeing Will Smith destroy evil vampires were sorely disappointed on Tuesday when all they got was bright lights in their eyes and noisy helicopters in their ears.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: A co-op board decides to cut down a tree to save some cash.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers!
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