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Steeplechase Pier. Photo by pablo57.
Fear of Defaults After a Flurry of Apartment House Sales [NY Times]
Home Prices Still Falling, but the Pace Is Slowing [NY Times]
The Secret Life of Bedbugs [Brooklyn Eagle]
Notes on Brooklyn Recording Studio the Rare Book Room [Village Voice]
Pierrepont: Creator of the First Suburb, Brooklyn Heights [TRD]
Housing Values May Be Viewed as Golden [NY Sun]

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While Moses may have built the Promenade it wasn't voluntarily. He wanted a regular highway and it was only the opposition of the Brahmans of Brooklyn Heights that stopped him.

Its a little known story that Pierrepont was the Walentas of his era. He rented one of the first houses to a chocolatier called Israel Torres; He had a thoroughbred horse called "Ferrari"; and his wife Jane owned one of the first steam powered carousels which she wanted to put on the never built public promenade along the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights.

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 27, 2008 8:47 AM

Sid, you're a card.

Posted by: altervoce at August 27, 2008 3:06 PM

Thank you(I think)....

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 27, 2008 10:56 PM

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