Tag: Cobble Hill
Neighborhood staple Jesse’s Deli has served up sandwiches and bodega staples on Atlantic Avenue since 1989. But recently the landlord more than doubled the rent, and the business may have to close, leaving the people of this part of Cobble Hill without a bodega, a New York necessity as vital as a laundromat or a […]
Jay Maisel has had a successful career as a commercial and fine art photographer, but there isn’t money in photography the way there is in New York City real estate. It’s unlikely Jay Maisel would have set the new record for a single-home purchase in Brooklyn if he hadn’t sold his prior address, the famed […]
A thief who just really needed his fix was caught stealing 104 packs of 5-Hour energy from a Cobble Hill Rite Aid this week, according to DNAinfo. Michael Robbins, 31, was arrested for petit larceny at the Smith Street pharmacy January 5 after employees observed him taking the drinks on surveillance cameras. Assuming he took them in […]
The NYPD recently put an end to a technically legal but ethically dubious practice put into place by 76th Precinct Commander Jeffery Schiff: using Twitter to publicly disseminate pictures and names of released convicts spotted in Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill. Though the information is public, to spread it in such an […]
