Haha… Be sure to update your business cards.

$1650000 - New Development - 3 Fam

Here’s a rare opportunity to invest in this well developed, 3 family, brick property before the “bidding” starts. Located in trendy Park Slope North (Prospect Heights), it features 4 BR units (12 total!!), 2 baths per unit, full basement, and new everything (appliances, wood floors, fresh walls, light fixtures, bath fixtures, windows, plumbing, electrical wiring, and 1 year guaranty). This property is still being worked, but is only months away from being complete. View this property, be assertive, and make it yours.

Discuss on the Prospect Heights PARK SLOPE NORTH Message Board

… and pictures men in biohazard suits removing the bodies of dead animals from the alleged laboratory, located on a stunning pre-gentrification block of Hanson Place,from Jeepbastard:

John Lee writes: “In the early eighties, crack ruled the streets of Brooklyn, and as you can see from this image, Hanson Place was very different… The street was a drug-dealing haven and many abandoned apartments were stash houses. …”

“Over time, several of us had become friends with some of the people that worked in the building. When pressed about what they did for a living, they would dissuade us from asking about it. They would hint that it was a laboratory when their guard slipped. Then one day, one of the workers we were friendly with disappeared … his co-workers mentioned he died suddenly. They seemed really spooked about his death …”

“Shortly after that, more workers in the lab began to die. They just packed up quickly and moved out. The howling of the monkeys fell silent. We assumed they took them all with them, but we were disturbed to see them bring out human and animal body bags from the building and put them in two different vehicles.”

“… Ask anyone from Fort Greene who was here before the gentrification and they will tell you about the painful blood curdling screams that erupted every night from 80 Hanson Place, echoing down to 4th Avenue on a quiet night…”

Behold the New Christie’s

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

SPIFFY.

Jamaican patties just got that much closer to Grand Army Plaza.

Live from Brooklyn Blog Fest

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

Here’s Erin of ABrooklynLife.com, which is based on Carroll Gardens.

Reported by: BigGuy (Newbie) Joined: 07 May 2006

Posts: 22 Location: Lincoln Pl, Wash & Underhill

There are a bunch of trucks in Grand Army Plaza, and lots of equipment in the park itself. I asked, and they are filming “The Brave One”, with Jodi Foster and Terrence Howard. There are flyers posted listing filming times over the next few days.

Source: Prospect Heights Message Board

Brooklyn Bridge- Shlomo Neuman

Originally uploaded by Shlomo Neuman.

We have been a bit remiss in noting that THIS THURSDAY at 8 PM is “Brooklyn Blog Fest” at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. The creators of this site have been invited to spend a leisurely 2-4 minutes discussing the evolution of dailyheights.com, dailyslope.com and brooklynian.com (woohoo! 60 seconds per site!).

The Old Stone House is on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. Check out full details of “Brooklyn Blog Fest” at the Old Stone House in Park Slope.

Wise Guys

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

Waiting for BBQ on Underhill Ave.

Concept from the Future: Sidewalk Cafe on Flatbush Ave.

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

Who would have thought it possible?

Imagine going way back in time to 1996 and trying to explain the concept “Sidewalk cafe on Flatbush” to a Brooklynian of that Bygone era … Is it possible? Can those words be used together in the same sentence and in that order??

Now imagine explaining the concept over the din of Flatbush lunch hour traffic… Sidewalk WHAT? And it’s WHERE? Speak up, sonny.

To be fair about the noise… if you close your eyes, you can almost imagine the ebb and flow of an ocean… An ocean with 300-decibel waves, a chorus of mermaids laying on the horn, and schools of teenage dolphins that amble about, communicating with each other in a complex and creative array of shouted profanities.

This pic was taken at 11:30 on a Saturday, which was probably a bit too early for the lunchtime burrito crowd.

Enjoy Espinal

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

One of PH’s bodegas.

It’s Temporarily

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

Looks like it will be 2 weeks (or more?) until alcoholic beverages are allowed again outside at Soda bar on Vanderbilt. Everyone we’ve talked to say that Soda’s neighbors have become keenly interested in ensuring that the bar comply with city permitting requirements, but we haven’t yet heard the official word. Wasn’t there a similar situation in Cobble Hill last year?

If there’s any news on this, it will show up in this thread in the Prospect Heights Message Boards.

The Russian Cabbie Who Loved America

Originally uploaded by The Klaus Kinski of Kamerafones.

pete_c
Regular
Joined: 21 Jul 2005
Posts: 168
Location: Sterling Pl

… after a long and craptacular day at the office. Total accident.

Of course, the guy was *in* the car when the cab door went ‘thunk’, got out and bitched me out all up and down the street. Great, you’re ‘feeling’ me, it was an accident, alright?

Tiny little scratch on the side of his already busted-up SUV. I gave him my cell and while I haven’t heard from him yet (this was Monday night) if he does call, or more likely harass me on my block, how much should I offer? $40? For that matter, anyone know a decent body shop?

I’m not gonna pay to repaint this dude’s entire car… grrr.

Read good advices in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

Coming soon: 595 vanderbilt

Originally uploaded by dailyheights.com.

Any ideas what’s going up?

This is right across the street from Hibiscus, RedLipstick, the bike
shop, etc. and a few doors down from HouseBroken.

How long before people start referring to this stretch as “Lower
Vanderbilt”?

UPDATE: It’s going to be a wine store, Ben says on the Prospect Heights Message Board. So, just a refresher on urban development…
Ungentrified: Nail salon and hair dresser on every other block

Gentrified: Wine store and sushi restaurant on every other block

liftandcut
Regular

Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 187
Location: Near the slowest cafe in New York.

I know the fashion has been addressed in other threads, but come on. Very few of you can pull them off. For most of you, it looks like you’ve got a turd in the back of your pants, hovering over two poultry getaway sticks. Seriously. This is one of the worst retro trends in years. At least back in the ’80s they were made to fit around a woman’s bottom. Granted, sometimes women (and men) had to squat over a steaming pot of water to get them on, and use pliers on the zippers, but still.

And you guys who think you look good in those nut-cutters… I’m speechless. Seriously, instead of being such fashion whores, wear what looks good on you, and above all, LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

Read all 68 replies in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

I live in a coop and we need to renovate our brownstone facade. We don’t have an underlying mortgage, but we need to take out a loan. Has anyone else had to deal with this? What banks did you use, and what experience did you have?

I love living in a four unit coop, but so far we haven’t found a bank that knows how to deal with a small coop. To a bank, we’re just a tiny corporation with almost no income.

Coop Financing for Facade Renovation: read more in the Prospect Heights Message Boards

Gothamist has a good piece on the crime wave instigated by roving teen gangs in Prospect Park. Discussion and news clips on reference in the Park Slope Message Boards.