Brownstoner dropped the bombshell yesterday that a house at 88 Remsen Street has sold for $10.8M, breaking the previous record of $10.75M (which was set more than two years ago in a very different market). The broker confirmed the sale price.–Brownstoner

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“It’s storefront shuffle time in Williamsburg: Not only has light and girly gift-shop Brooklynski moved to Graham Avenue, but Digital Fix, which you could call Brooklynski’s more masculine brother in design, has relocated to the Bedford Avenue Mini-Mall. The store, which sells high-tech and high-design gadgets like Nooka watches, tree-branch shaped thumb drives, and a […]

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It seems like everywhere you turn, someone’s digging a hole somewhere to just go right back and build a big building in its place. Most of the time, it happens so fast and the view is blocked by plywood fences that we never get a good glimpse at what once was there. Well, here’s one […]

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Could it be that the duplicated shops of Kensington have finally out numbered themselves and are now bleeding out into the rest of our fine borough? And here we were thinking we had the nail salons all contained…–Kensington Stories

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If you missed it, you suck… at least that’s what the status quo of the revelers of this years Bike Kill would certainly say. The best description of what exactly you missed would probably come directly from the Bike Kill myspace page: “We’ve always understood the event as not just a celebration of bikes, but […]

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It sounds as if Precinct 68 is getting back into the swing of what their thing is – protecting and serving the residents of Bay Ridge. After many unfortunate crimes and a town hall evening of complaints, the cops are now getting it that just because it’s better than what it was this time last […]

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Puppets! The New York Puppet Library, once housed in ye old Grand Army Plaza but now at Brooklyn College in conjunction with Puppetry in Practice, seems to offer a lot of fun times and opportunities to crawl up into something bigger than us and play pretend amongst friends.–Brooklynometry

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It’s a sad and sullen time at the corner of 215 Prospect Park West. Daniel Mills Sr., the long time owner of Farrell’s Bar & Grill, took his own life at the Verrazano Bridge this past Sunday, October 19, apparently after his doctor’s diagnosis of a terminal illness. A well known and liked face of […]

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The Farm on Adderly is not the only reason to go to Ditmas Park. (Attention: this is a joke. Do not be offended. If this had been a real insult, you would have been instructed to click away.) The Halloween decorations are pretty freakin’ good too. Here’s a whole slide show of them. Enjoy.–Flatbush Vegan

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It will be a busy Saturday (10/25) in Brooklyn. Here’s another fun event happening at the red-and-white tent better know as the Brooklyn Indie Market on Smith and Union – an all day thing (11am-7pm) of “vintage inspired merriment” with an array of Victorian and Vaudeville goods and entertainment called “The Grand Chono’nauts Tea.” Heh… […]

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After the longest time of waiting, wondering, rolling our eyes and saying “yeah yeah yeah, sure,” it seems that work is finally going to get started next month on the Brooklyn Bridge Park. We’ll certainly be keeping an eye on this – and hope our GL Flickr Pool friends do the same.–Brownstoner

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We don’t know about you, but the last thing we really want to deal with when we get off the G Train in the middle of rush hour after a long annoying day at work is get smacked by an SUV while exiting the train station. Well, actually, the dude thought they had drive through […]

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One sees many strange things when perusing real estate listings, particularly in the curious Craigslist wasteland. Yet, this listing for an 8×10 basement sublet that is a windowless basement bathroom with a mattress is a a prize winner. On the plus side, it’s centrally located at N. 7 & Bedford. If you have seen it, […]

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If you know Coney Island, you know shut down wreck known as the Shore Hotel. In its final days it was a notorious hot sheets/crack joint type of place. In any case, L Magazine had a wonderful recollection of the place when it was open that we found courtesy of the Coney Island Message Board:<blockquote>Me […]

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After years and years of debate, the question is still out there: are pit bulls are mean and dangerous? Some say pit bulls are gentle and sweet by nature, it’s all about the caregiver and how they raise and maintain the innocent creature that matters. Others just aren’t sure. Here, we find that it sounds […]

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Bad news, friends. Trader Joe’s had a warehouse fire that has left the frozen food section looking like a state store in East Berlin in 1988. (To younger readers, this probably doesn’t mean a lot. To the older ones here, if you ever had the pleasure of going through the wall pre-1989, you know what […]

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“I’ve never been down with facial hair combined with my husband Anson’s face. But that’s about to change citizens! Our neighbor Mitch casually asked Anson recently if he’d be interested in being part of Mustaches for Kids. The name sounds a little creepy but Mitch isn’t creepy so we kept on listening. Turns out he […]

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It turns out presidential nominee Barack Obama’s National Political Director is Park Slope’s own Patrick Gaspard. In fact, he’s a “PS 321 and MS 51 dad and a familiar face on Seventh Avenue.” Mr. Gaspard says that “This election offers a clear choice between John McCain’s agenda for continuing the failed policies of George W. […]

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The Brooklyn Paper confirms what a neighborhood source told us earlier this week: The old Tea Lounge Space on Seventh Avenue in the Slope is becoming a Vietnamese sandwich shop. Sarah Portlock reports that “the beloved Vietnamese sandwich shop Hanco’s” is opening in the space. The popular Carroll Gardens spot will open within the next […]

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From Park Slope comes this blood curdling report of monster moths: “[The moths are] goldeny and when you smoosh them they’re chalky…i found a mitten i’d left in a bag in my closet. (i’d been wondering why they kept flying out from the closet!) said mitten was missing a giant chunk. i’m not talking about […]

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Prudential Douglas Elliman, which isn’t particularly known for sending out outrageous emails, sent one out yesterday saying it was “opening its can of whoop-ass in Brooklyn.” It’s promoting a property at 306 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill that’s on the market for $1.9 million, which works out to $406 per square foot and saying that […]

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The New York Post ran a story yesterday that had been broken by our friend Miss Heather at New York Shitty a week earlier, of course, in true Post fashion (and following the bad habit of some other reporters who might be said to be lacking in professional ethics in the Intellectual Theft Department) providing […]

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“There was a massive youth street battle yesterday right by the Williamsburg Bridge street entrance, that ended with some bloodied faces and frightened cops. A reader wrote in and said that while sitting at a traffic light just outside Ortis funeral home, they saw a bunch of kids (12-15) acting rowdy and yelling, while a […]

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Prices are coming down at Satori in Gowanus, the building we used to call the Bunker. “Let’s take Unit A-3B, the top priced 2BR originally listed at $925,000. It’s taken a $100,000 hit. On the other hand, the mid-range 1BR Unit C-4B originally out there for $560,000 has only been trimmed to $530,000. It’s a […]

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The city’s best Halloween display–and it’s fair to say this is not an overstatement–is in process on Humboldt Street. Miss Heather has checked in on the progress and even in its incomplete state it is impressive as hell.–New York Shitty

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