To hell with your nostalgia, Heights literature lovers! That’s the message from the folks who are renovating 70 Willow St., the “elegant yellow mansion” where Truman Capote worked on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood.” The 1830s-vintage Greek Revival-style house’s façade is red now. The yellow paint that helped make 70 Willow an instantly recognizable Brooklyn … Read More →
Brooklyn Heights sweet tooths will just have to keep buying their cupcakes at Lassen & Hennigs or Garden of Eden. Crumbs Bake Shop is not going to make a post-bankruptcy return to its shuttered Montague Street location. A doc in the box called UMD Urgent Care is headed for 109 Montague St., where Crumbs’ striped … Read More →
There are no asphalt shingles on this house now. Genteel 113 Willow St., a piece of historic Brooklyn Heights that was built when Andrew Jackson was President, is all fixed up and newly arrived on the leasing market. The asking rent is $30,000 per month. That is not a typo. What’s it like inside a … Read More →
Back To The Future. A Brooklyn Heights house that was covered with asphalt shingles for at least a half-century has been restored to its classic style of yesteryear — and is showing that old-fashioned face to the world. The tarps and sidewalk shed that hid 113 Willow St. for months were removed in recent days … Read More →
Forty million — it’s a big number. But this is a big house we’re talking about — 50 rooms big —with a big sense of history and a big view out the back windows. The house in question is Brooklyn Heights’ own 3 Pierrepont Place, aka the Low Mansion. The Wall Street Journal rocked the … Read More →