Around Brooklyn: Brooklyn Heights row house selling for $18M

February 17, 2021 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

A panel recommended that the Brooklyn Heights Promenade not be replaced with a BQE bypass. Photo: Lore Croghan/Brooklyn Eagle

Visitors walk along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Photo: Lore Croghan/Brooklyn Eagle

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Brooklyn Heights row house selling for $18M

A Brooklyn Heights row house, at 212 Columbia Heights, with a wine cellar and a view of New York Harbor is selling for $18 million. The home was built before the Civil War, and has the round arched windows and door typical of its time. The home also has period interior details such as wood floors, marble mantels, pocket doors and stained glass in addition to modern features such as a renovated kitchen. In the early 20th century, it was a multifamily house, but it was converted into a two-family home in 1956 and was converted back to a one-family home in 2008. It has five floors of living space as well as a backyard and a guest room in the basement, according to published reports.

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Top sledding spots in Prospect Park

Christian Zimmerman, Prospect Park Alliance’s chief landscape architect, recently listed his recommendations of the top sledding destinations in Prospect Park. They are the Long Meadow, the longest stretch of uninterrupted meadow in any urban park in the nation; Lookout Hill, the highest point in the park; Drummer’s Grove, near the Parkside and Ocean avenues entrance; and Endale Arch, near Grand Army Plaza heading toward the Long Meadow.

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Brooklynite stabbed in 2007 dies

The 2007 stabbing of a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy, who was attacked in a quarrel over the price of a bag of potato chips, was declared a homicide after the long-incapacitated victim died in October. The city medical examiner performed an autopsy after Stevenson Celius died on Oct. 13 in a hospital in Brooklyn, 13 years after the attack. The family was never notified of Celius’ death until the ME’s ruling, and his body remained missing as of Wednesday evening. The victim’s father and sister initially received no information about his death from officials at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Supposedly, the hospital had the wrong contact information, according to the Daily News.

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Brooklyn company helps you live off the grid

A Brooklyn hospitality firm named Getaway builds, books and manages small cabins in the woods for urbanites seeking a rustic escape, without WiFi. The cabins have no TVs, and hot showers are limited to five minutes. However, they come with a stocked kitchen. Each of the company’s properties, all of them no more than two hours from a major city, holds between 30 and 50 cabins, spaced widely apart. This type of vacationing has been given a major boost by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Crain’s New York Business.

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12-year-old boy found safe and sound

A 12-year-old Dyker Heights boy who was missing since Friday was found safe and sound on Wednesday, police said. Ryan Zhu was reported missing from his residence on 14th Avenue just after 7 p.m. The last time his mother had seen him was Friday night at 11 p.m. The NYPD sent out a tweet asking for help on Tuesday evening, and police found him safe the next evening, according to WPIX 11.

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Façade progresses at One Willoughby Square

Façade work continues to progress at One Willoughby Square, a 36-story skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn also known as 420 Albee Square. The project is designed by FXCollaborative and is being developed by JEMB Realty. It will contain about 500,000 square feet of Class A office space. The exterior on the eastern elevation facing Albee Square West has been substantially completed. The same can also be said of the northern profile, which has a steadily climbing assembly of closely spaced metal strips attached to the blank concrete walls, which are painted black. This will support a light blue grid of metal panels of varying shades, according to New York YIMBY.

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540 Fulton St. nears completion

Exterior work is nearing completion at 540 Fulton St., a 43-story mixed-used tower in Downtown Brooklyn. The building, designed by Marvel Architects and developed by Jewel Management, will contain 327 residential units, commercial space and retail space. The glass panels have been installed on most of the glass curtain wall, and the construction crane has been removed from Fulton Street, according to New York YIMBY.

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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ to end

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” will be coming to an end for the second time. NBC announced Thursday that the upcoming Season 8 of the comedy series will be the last. The show was first canceled after five seasons at Fox in 2018, but NBC revived it for a sixth season later that year. The comedy, set in a Brooklyn police station, stars Andy Samberg, Andrew Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Furnero and others. Season 8 will air as part of the 2021-2022 season, according to Variety.

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Partial crane collapse in Greenpoint

FDNY and other emergency crews on Thursday afternoon responded to a partial crane collapse in Brooklyn. The crews responded to Commercial and Clay streets in Greenpoint just before 4 p.m., where a partial collapse happened at a 31-story building under construction. A total of 12 units and 60 firefighters responded to the scene, FDNY officials said. According to the Department of Buildings, the crane happened as technicians were on the site performing maintenance work on the tower crane, and the crane’s boom partially collapsed. There were no injuries, according to CBS News.

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Clarke speaks with ICE

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-East Flatbush, Central Brooklyn) released the following statement on a call she and U.S Rep. Bennie G. Thompson had with Tae Johnson, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “As members of the House Homeland Security Committee, this call was imperative. Haiti is facing a delicate political landscape that could cause disproportionate harm to wrongfully deported immigrants,” said Clarke. “As the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, I can confidently say, our immigration system is broken. The targeted deportation to Haiti illustrates the violence exacted on immigrant communities — particularly immigrant communities of color.”

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Schumer helps with burial costs

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) along with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez formally announced that the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) will help pay for the funeral and burial of COVID-hit families that cannot afford it via a $2 billion national pot of disaster funds. “Families across New York are already paying the ultimate price with the tragic loss of their loved ones to the coronavirus,” said Schumer. “For families, the unspeakable loss of a loved one is being exacerbated by the substantial costs of funerals and burials that many cannot afford right now.”

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Service cuts on C, F trains

MTA officials say they have no plans to put new trains onto the C and F subway lines, both of which go through Brooklyn. The cuts began, say the Daily News, in January 2020 when a new class of cars had to be pulled from service due to a door malfunction. This caused rush-hour waiting time between trains to increase from 8 to 10 minutes, and on the F train from 5 minutes to 7.5 minutes. The Riders Alliance, a transit riders’ advocacy group, protested, saying, “Governor Cuomo must stop the cuts and stop cutting corners while taking away transit service. Federal law requires public hearings so Governor Cuomo and his aides learn firsthand about the severe impacts that longer waits and more crowding have on riders’ lives.” An MTA spokesperson responded that “C and F service were reduced nearly a year ago during the time we were running essential service and we never brought them back to full service due to very low ridership. Overall subway ridership is still down 70% from pre-pandemic levels.”

Compiled by Raanan Geberer.