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Even with his big face and chiseled jaw, Heath Ledger was one of those guys who blended in easily. In November 2005, waiting for me outside a pub, as he would have called it, he looked like any other scruffy Brooklyn local. He was then a little bleary-eyed from being a new father, but also a little wary of the press from being a heartthrob. We were meeting to discuss what would be his Oscar-nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain. We went to a local cafe. He didn...
...estate prices. By the last quarter of 2007, a year when home prices in most of the rest of the U.S. were dropping, sometimes sharply, the average cost of a Manhattan apartment was a record $1.4 million, up 17.6% from one year before. Even across the East River in Brooklyn, the average price was a hefty $661,000, up from...
...city center, of course, New Yorkers will move - as cultural workers have done for decades, migrating from the West Village to Soho, from Soho to the East Village and from there across the river to Long Island City in Queens and to Williamsburg and Red Hook in Brooklyn. But in recent years those neighborhoods, too, have been gentrifying, pushing the cultural workforce even further afield. And that art-world diaspora causes a more subtle disruption to the fabric of the creative economy. Creative people thrive on interaction. They need to be near one another to reach a kind of creative...
What is your favorite borough of New York City? -Leo Khokhlov, St. Petersburg, RussiaManhattan, because it was the glamour spot of my childhood. I grew up in Brooklyn, which is another great borough, but Manhattan [had] the jazz joints, most of the great movie houses and Central Park. The second I could move out of my parents' house, I moved to Manhattan and have lived here my whole life...
Chicago has its lovable losers the Cubs. Brooklyn, in the 1950s, had its Dodgers. The team reached the World Series five times from 1941 to '53 but always lost to the Yankees, hence their slogan: Wait 'til next year. That changed in 1955, when pitcher Johnny Podres, an unknown on a team that included Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, took Brooklyn to its first and only World Series win. By holding off the Yankees with his fastball and signature change-up, Podres earned the nickname "Mr. Clutch" and won the first ever World Series Most Valuable Player...