Afternoon Links: Customers' Donations Save Fort Greene's Madiba Restaurant From Closure
A crowdfunding campaign saved Fort Greene’s Madiba restaurant from closure, what it’s like to live in Bay Ridge and more Brooklyn news.
Clinton Hill. Photo by Mary Hautman
In the News
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a “Small Town” in a Big City [NYT]
Public-Access TV With a Brooklyn Edge [WSJ]
Crowdfunding Saves Fort Greene’s Madiba Restaurant [Pix11]
Should Habitat House Displaced Bed Stuy Families? [NYDN]
Parts of Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Found in Heights Bar [Untapped Cities]
A Buckminster Fuller Dome Almost Kept the Dodgers in Brooklyn [6sqft]
What’s Causing Brooklyn Rent Increases This Month? [Brokleyn]
Comment of the Day
I am the decendant of the (Buckley) family that were tenant farmers for the Kouwenhovens. The Buckleys lived just up the road at 5 Kouwenhoven Pl, thought to be their original Kouwenhoven home built pre Revolutionary War. My grandfather Gil Buckley, Sr., who was born in the house used to call this the “Mansion on the Hill”. A good friend of mines father was with the FDNY when the old mansion was badly damaged by fire in 1962. He pulled newspapers dating to the 1880’s from behind the walls and under the floorboards that were used as insulation. They were given to me as a momento a few years ago.
— Christopher Buckley in This Remarkable Flatbush Mansion Used to Be a Kings Highway Icon
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