Photo by Justin Shu
Park Slope may be the winner of the New York Magazine best neighborhood analysis (as if that neighborhood’s collective head isn’t big enough already, what with Amy Sohn’s book and all that), but Prospect Heights is the best for the young, single and cash-strapped. So says the livability calculator, an addictive gizmo where you plug in your criteria and it spits out the best places for you to live. By that standard, Prospect Heights is right there as the city’s #2 spot, and Brooklyn’s best. Read the rest of this entry »
At Pieces: party dresses and shimmery accessories. Photos by Eric Reichbaum.
With $3 drafts and afternoon-long happy hours, Prospect Heights is a small sliver of Brooklyn where the drinks alone should be a cheapskate draw. But with some mouth-watering daytime fare, sale racks that overfloweth and well-stocked knick-knackeries, the neighborhood isn’t a find only for the pocket-change imbiber. Desperate, hungry shoppers, read on too. Here are my Prospect Heights picks from beer glass to last-minute stocking-stuffer. Read the rest of this entry »
Some finds at 1 of a Find, open late Saturday
Here’s another reason not to leave Brooklyn for the entire holiday season. This Saturday (Dec. 5), the Prospect Heights-promoting Heart of Brooklyn is holding its second annual Holiday Sip & Shop on Washington and Vanderbilt Avenues. The afternoon will include free hot chocolate from the likes of Cataldo’s, Ortine Café, Teddy’s Restaurant and The Usual; and there’ll be trolley tours from 4 to 10:30 p.m. on the neighborhood’s HOB Connection. Hot chocolate on a trolley? It’s like in a movie, but real! A few local boutiques also will stay open late for your gift-gathering convenience—an arrangement that should lead nicely into that post-shopping drink at one of the local watering holes. HOB is also offering 42 coupons. (Our favorite: 15 percent off clothing and shoes at Pieces.) Print them all here (good through Jan. 16) or pick them up Saturday at participating Sip & Shop spots.
The Momasphere-hosted reading by Prospect Park West author Amy Sohn at the Richard Meier building went down last night to mixed real-estate reviews from Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn and Effed In Park Slope.
Louise from OTBKB, who didn’t like Sohn’s book, actually liked the apartment. The reading was held in a third floor, four-bedroom apartment that “can comfortably seat 100 people,” she wrote, adding that “the kitchen had an enormous counter/island with some gorgeous looking appliances that sort of disappear seamlessly into the walls.”
Then there’s Erica from Fucked in Park Slope, who looooved Sohn’s book, but hated the apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
If Hungarian gypsy tones make you hungry or if mustache-making sessions make you want to wet your own, just walk outside the Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow evening and take a look around. That’s Prospect Heights you see, and the neighborhood has plenty of its own diversions, from the drinks at Franklin Park Bar or the chicken at El Gran Castillo de Jagua. To help with your local exposure, Heart of Brooklyn (ever the BK ambassador) has launched the HOB Connection—a free shuttle bus to local food, drinks and shopping on every Target First Saturday at the museum. The shuttle leaves the museum at 5 p.m., and makes half-hour loops through neighborhood strips until 11. More info and full schedule here.
We’ve heard that apartment sellers are slashing prices in desperation, but here’s an incentive we may be seeing more of: over the weekend the Corcoran Group offered a brand new Toyota Prius to anyone who committed to a full-price offer on a one-bedroom condo at a Prospect Heights/Crown Heights building, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports. The four remaining one-bedroom 750-square-foot units in “The Sinclair” have balconies and go for $379,000 to $389,000. They look nice in the photos (even though there’s definite brick wallage in the bedroom window shots on Corcoran). Corcoran isn’t telling us whether the gimmick worked—you had to bid by July 5—but how odd is that to have the same apartment and car as three of your neighbors? Don’t we live in Brooklyn because it isn’t a planned community?
Franklin Park. All photos by Emily Paup.
If you live within two subway stops of Tom’s Diner, you may have gotten into a long, whiskey-breathed argument about where Prospect Heights actually is. At the very least, you’ve likely cringed at the phrase “ProCro.” Smartphone lookups only blur the boundaries—Google Maps includes the Barclay’s Center in the postage stamp-sized area, and an old NY Magazine article suggests that that a block-wide sliver on Prospect Park west is part of the neighborhood. I object vehemently to both assertions, and I’m not even drunk right now. One thing’s for certain: there are some really solid happy hours in the region arguably known as Prospect Heights. Here’s a list of places where you can get tipsy and then try to figure out where the hell you are. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo by Justin Shu
Park Slope may be the winner of the New York Magazine best neighborhood analysis (as if that neighborhood’s collective head isn’t big enough already, what with Amy Sohn’s book and all that), but Prospect Heights is the best for the young, single and cash-strapped. So says the livability calculator, an addictive gizmo where you plug in your criteria and it spits out the best places for you to live. By that standard, Prospect Heights is right there as the city’s #2 spot, and Brooklyn’s best. Read the rest of this entry »
At Pieces: party dresses and shimmery accessories. Photos by Eric Reichbaum.
With $3 drafts and afternoon-long happy hours, Prospect Heights is a small sliver of Brooklyn where the drinks alone should be a cheapskate draw. But with some mouth-watering daytime fare, sale racks that overfloweth and well-stocked knick-knackeries, the neighborhood isn’t a find only for the pocket-change imbiber. Desperate, hungry shoppers, read on too. Here are my Prospect Heights picks from beer glass to last-minute stocking-stuffer. Read the rest of this entry »
Some finds at 1 of a Find, open late Saturday
Here’s another reason not to leave Brooklyn for the entire holiday season. This Saturday (Dec. 5), the Prospect Heights-promoting Heart of Brooklyn is holding its second annual Holiday Sip & Shop on Washington and Vanderbilt Avenues. The afternoon will include free hot chocolate from the likes of Cataldo’s, Ortine Café, Teddy’s Restaurant and The Usual; and there’ll be trolley tours from 4 to 10:30 p.m. on the neighborhood’s HOB Connection. Hot chocolate on a trolley? It’s like in a movie, but real! A few local boutiques also will stay open late for your gift-gathering convenience—an arrangement that should lead nicely into that post-shopping drink at one of the local watering holes. HOB is also offering 42 coupons. (Our favorite: 15 percent off clothing and shoes at Pieces.) Print them all here (good through Jan. 16) or pick them up Saturday at participating Sip & Shop spots.
The Momasphere-hosted reading by Prospect Park West author Amy Sohn at the Richard Meier building went down last night to mixed real-estate reviews from Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn and Effed In Park Slope.
Louise from OTBKB, who didn’t like Sohn’s book, actually liked the apartment. The reading was held in a third floor, four-bedroom apartment that “can comfortably seat 100 people,” she wrote, adding that “the kitchen had an enormous counter/island with some gorgeous looking appliances that sort of disappear seamlessly into the walls.”
Then there’s Erica from Fucked in Park Slope, who looooved Sohn’s book, but hated the apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
If Hungarian gypsy tones make you hungry or if mustache-making sessions make you want to wet your own, just walk outside the Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow evening and take a look around. That’s Prospect Heights you see, and the neighborhood has plenty of its own diversions, from the drinks at Franklin Park Bar or the chicken at El Gran Castillo de Jagua. To help with your local exposure, Heart of Brooklyn (ever the BK ambassador) has launched the HOB Connection—a free shuttle bus to local food, drinks and shopping on every Target First Saturday at the museum. The shuttle leaves the museum at 5 p.m., and makes half-hour loops through neighborhood strips until 11. More info and full schedule here.
We’ve heard that apartment sellers are slashing prices in desperation, but here’s an incentive we may be seeing more of: over the weekend the Corcoran Group offered a brand new Toyota Prius to anyone who committed to a full-price offer on a one-bedroom condo at a Prospect Heights/Crown Heights building, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports. The four remaining one-bedroom 750-square-foot units in “The Sinclair” have balconies and go for $379,000 to $389,000. They look nice in the photos (even though there’s definite brick wallage in the bedroom window shots on Corcoran). Corcoran isn’t telling us whether the gimmick worked—you had to bid by July 5—but how odd is that to have the same apartment and car as three of your neighbors? Don’t we live in Brooklyn because it isn’t a planned community?
