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First Bloom, a Borscht Belt corner store from Alison Roman, appears to be expanding to Brooklyn Heights this fall. The food media maven announced via newsletter that her curated, high-end, locally sourced grocer and appetizing shop with humble upstate beginnings will soon be “a permanent resident of the Big Apple,” sharing scant details about the…

Weird and wild things are happening in the ever-coveted, certifiably untouchable Brooklyn Heights housing market, where some of the city’s oldest homes reliably go for an ungodly eight figures. Many are stunningly well-preserved or recalibrated entirely by presitigious architects and bleeding-edge designers, especially along that strip of Columbia Heights, where backyards open up to a…

A decade since they were offloaded by Jehovah’s Witnesses (along with the vast majority of their local holdings), a developer has presented a plan for the rebirth of the former Watchtower buildings in Brooklyn Heights, with affordable housing baked into the blueprint. The massive former world headquarters for The Witnesses (with 700,000 square feet of…

Confidant is located at 127 Atlantic Avenue, just east of Henry Street, and is currently open on Wednesday through Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., with brunch coming soon  Chefs Brendan Kelley and Dan Grossman spent their twenties like a lot of Bushwick besties you might know. They met on the job (in this…

The keys to the Moonstruck house, a stunner of a 200-year-old Brooklyn Heights home that kept multiple generations of an Italian family under its roof in the Oscar-winning 1987 Cher film it’s named after, have changed hands once again. Out: Comedian Amy Schumer and now or soon-to-be ex-husband Chris Fischer, who bought the house for…

If you’re an interiors preservationist, or just a candid appreciator of the Federal-style homes scattered across the boroughs, it may be best to avert your eyes and attention turning from Middagh to Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights. 24 Middagh Street, the six-bed, five-bath home that has stood at the corner of those streets for somewhere…

It’s been a long, cold post-election week. Literally and, in the past couple of days, figuratively. And while the climate both outdoors and on the timeline is unlikely to change for a while, it is possible to look away. Which is why, as always, we’ve compiled a list of the best things happening in Brooklyn…

PHOTOGRAPHY Zach Gross Last night, the entertainment & storytelling studio, Topic, hosted an important discussion on what identity is, and what it means to us inside the beautiful Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights. Investigative reporter Nicholas Kulish kicked off last night’s discussion, speaking about his discrepancies between how the world sees him versus how he sees himself as…