DH fan Jon Keegan, an illustrator living in Prospect Heights, wrote in: “I was interviewed by the New York Times for this Sunday’s paper…They are doing a “Living in…” for Prospect Heights. I made sure to give dailyheights a good plug!”
Thanks, Jon… Looks like NYT writer JEFF VANDAM was pretty impressed with the DH community… we got mentioned twice in the article, and the NYT Prospect Heights slideshow is narrated by Mark McCartney, aka Mr. Tips, a regular on DH’s Prospect Heights Message Boards. Here are some excerpts from the NYT article:
“ON the heavily trafficked Web site www.dailyheights.com, a recent poll asked visitors to vote on new SoHo-style nicknames for Prospect Heights, their beloved Brooklyn neighborhood. While there was some support for ToPoSlo (Too Poor to live in the Slope) and HoSloFugee (Home for Slope Refugees), the biggest winner by far was not a name, but a criticism: ‘This poll is extraordinarily dumb…’ ”
“… ‘There’s a great cultural corridor here,’ said Jon Keegan, an illustrator who moved in 2002 from Park Slope into Newswalk, a Dean Street loft building formerly home to a Daily News printing plant, with his wife, Julie, a painter. ‘There’s this sweet spot of being between BAM and the Brooklyn Museum – Prospect Heights is so perfect for that,’ he said, referring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.”
“Yet as Mr. Keegan and his fellow users of dailyheights.com are well aware, there is an undercurrent to all of the recent success of Prospect Heights: the plans of the developer Bruce Ratner to build a sizable complex of shopping, offices, housing and a Frank Gehry-designed arena for his New York Nets over the railyards on Atlantic Avenue. Concerns about eminent domain issues and the project’s potential impact on the area’s density are widespread, as is uncertainty over what form it will finally take.
“Still, not everyone is up in arms. Mark McCartney, a computer programmer who rents a one-bedroom apartment on Washington Avenue with his fiancée, Beth Elliott, lives south of the proposed project’s area. ‘We’re so far away it wouldn’t affect us,’ he said. ‘And I don’t like basketball.’ ”