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Sam Sifton Returns to Eddie Huang’s Kitchen for the Chinese New Year
In October of last year, Sam Sifton ventured down to the corner of Houston and Orchard to try Eddie Huang's restaurant, Xiao Ye. The review was nice in places but consisted mostly of cutting, savage...
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Atlantic Yards ‘Rat Tsunami’ Plagues BroBos
Give me your morbier and no one gets hantavirus. As if the traffic and sports bars weren't bad enough, the construction of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project has triggered an all-too-apt infestation...
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Vampiric Designer Robert Geller Talks Fort Greene and Bauhaus
I need a haircut and some dry wall. (Getty) Back in May, The Observer reported that downtown designer Robert Geller had bought a brownstone in Fort Greene of all places. Now, he does that most Brooklyn...
View ArticleYou Can Live in This Stunning Fort Greene Brownstone for $120K a Year… With...
We at The Observer pride ourselves on being able to tag these virtual house tours with a little witticism, which we think pokes fun at the property itself, and thus gives depth to its role in the...
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Watch Your Back! Rolex Sues Fort Greene Deli
Rolex Deli (New York Post) The 1% percent are at it again! No, today it's not a solitary fat cat out to get the masses, but the company behind the blue bloods' consummate accoutrement: Rolex. You'd...
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Atlantic Terminal: Transportation Hub or Crime Hub?
Some things are free! (Courtesy Dumbo Books of Brooklyn) Ever think "Where's my wallet?" when walking around the Atlantic Terminal or Atlantic Center malls? It's probably missing. The shopping centers...
View ArticleHow AmBAMitious! BAM’s Newest Space Seeks To Transform Performance Offerings,...
Besides the distinctive red brick arches, there is very little left of the old Salvation Army citadel that stood for years, vacant and crumbling, at 321 Ashland Place. The citadel, like so many other...
View ArticleFort Greene Townhouse Fetches $3.1 M., Narrowly Missing Neighborhood Record
It has been a summer of stunning performances, victories and defeats, and titles won, lost and held. And no, we're not talking about the Olympics, but the Brooklyn brownstone market. In Fort Greene,...
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The Beginning of the End For Fort Greene, Brooklyn’s Most Livable Neighborhood
The patchy, ragged grass only adds to Fort Greene's trying but not trying to hard appeal. Do you live in Fort Greene? Enjoy sipping seasonal cocktails outside of Roman's, playing fetch with your dog in...
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Indie Production Designer Sets Fort Greene Record With $3.75 M. Brownstone
32 South Portland isn't as elaborate as its next-door neighbor, but that didn't stop it from setting a neighborhood record. "I made my career on films that probably shouldn’t have been made,...
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Of Compounds and Condos: Belgian Artist Marc Lambrechts Unloads Fort Greene...
The view from above When the Belgian artist Marc Lambrechts bought the compound at 164 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 2000, he had no notion that it would prove such a savvy...
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Blame It on the Refrain? The Milli Vanilli Opera Is Finally Happening
Let's Fake it huh Opera has a new face: Milli Vanilli. At least, that is the hope of theater director David Levine, who has developed a – to put it lightly – “experimental” opera based on the rise and...
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East River Partners Revealed as Developer for Fort Greene ‘Compound’
The compound at 164 South Oxford Street When we spoke earlier this month with Corcoran's Vicki Negron about the recent sale for $7.5 million of a kingly assemblage at 164 South Oxford Street in Fort...
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