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Developers Kushner, RFR sell a stake in one of their Dumbo Heights office buildings

June 24 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

DUMBO — ABY ROSEN’S RFR and Kushner Companies have sold a stake in one of the four office buildings they jointly own in DUMBO, The Real Deal reports. The size of the stake is not known, but the building involved is the nine-story, 95,000-square-foot 81 Prospect St. — currently a WeWork office complex and retail […]

This rendering shows shaded seating next to pickleball courts, and the entrance to Ash Alley. Rendering courtesy of Parks Department

Pickleball courts are coming to Anchorage Plaza in DUMBO

June 11 | Mary Frost

DUMBO — The NYC Parks Department revealed Monday that pickleball company CityPickle has turned in the winning proposal for a temporary sports/recreational concession at Anchorage Plaza, a long-neglected but spectacularly scenic area straddling both sides the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO. CityPickle, co-founded by Mary Cannon and Erica Desai, operates pickleball courts at Wollman Rink, Industry […]

Police are looking for a suspect who jumped off his scooter and attacked a man in DUMBO, Brooklyn around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Man brutally beaten in DUMBO by scooter-riding attacker

June 6 | Mary Frost

DUMBO — A man heading home from work was viciously beaten on a sidewalk in DUMBO Wednesday evening by an attacker who ran into him from behind on a scooter. The 39-year-old victim, a long-time Brooklyn resident who has worked in DUMBO for eight years, was walking near the intersection of Front and Pearl streets […]