Tag: Clinton Hill
On Tuesday, Cinemax show The Knick was filming in Clinton Hill on DeKalb Avenue. The series, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is set in the early 1900s and is a fictional depiction of the horrific conditions common to NYC’s Knickerbocker Hospital. Compared to previous sets in the LES and South Street Seaport, the shoot in Brooklyn […]
Street artist Danielle Mastrion is planning to paint a Biggie Smalls mural on the Key Foods supermarket at St. James Place and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, the block where Biggie grew up. The mural is being shepherded by Leroy McCarthy, the man behind the stalled attempts to rename St. James between Fulton and Cambridge […]
Like the rest of America, Clinton Hill bodega owner Ricardo Rodriguez is giving A-Rod a second chance. When Ricardo Rodriguez first changed the name of his bodega to A-Rod Grocery 15 years ago, his Clinton Hill neighbors were delighted. “When he moved to New York, a lot of people got excited,” Ricardo Rodriguez said to […]
Less than a day after it was reported that a street artist replaced a “White Castle” sign with “White Hassle,” the clever work has been taken down. Brooklyn-based interventionist Gabe Specter changed the letters on the vacant building’s front with his own poignant ones, Gothamist reported. View this post on Instagram A post shared by […]
If you sign one thing today, make it this, a Change.org petition to rename the block of Brooklyn’s Fulton Street between St. James and Cambridge Places after one Mr. Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G. The Clinton Hill block is the one Biggie called home during his childhood, and LeRoy McCarthy hopes to immortalize the […]
Stray cats on campus of the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill are a charming aspect of campus life, almost as old as the institution itself. Recently, there have been rumors of mass cat “eviction.” That rumor was enough for over 1,300 Pratt students to sign Yanni Trittas’ petition opposing the removal the cats, just in the past 48 hours. Jolene Travis, a spokesmen for the school says: […]
