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  Boerum Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boerum Hill is a small segment of Brooklyn roughly bounded by State Street to the north, 3rd Avenue to the east, Court Street to the west, and Warren Street to the south.
This neighborhood was featured in Jonathan Lethem's book The Fortress of Solitude, set primarily on one block in Boerum Hill (Dean Street between Nevins Street and Bond Street), in which he purports that the neighborhood was named in the wake of gentrification.
Boerum Hill features one of the biggest eyesores in Brooklyn, the House of Detention at Boerum Place (Adams Street) and Atlantic Avenue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boerum_Hill   (244 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Association: About The BHA Archives
The Boerum Hill Association bylaws specify a maximum of 15 total officers and directors.
About Us The Boerum Hill Association is a NY not-for-profit corporation founded in 1963 to advocate for the Boerum Hill Community.
The Boerum Hill Association is made up of dedicated volunteers who promote the interests of residents and business people in Boerum Hill.
www.boerumhillbrooklyn.org /archives/cat_about_the_bha.html   (247 words)

  
 District 33: Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Greenpoint, Williamsburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Background: Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, and Park Slope are historic brownstone communities largely populated by upper- and middle-class professionals.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is located on the waterfront between the Williamsburg and DUMBO neighborhoods, is an active industrial park, but also contains historic structures and open space that could be redeveloped for public parkland and recreational opportunities.
In Brooklyn Heights, plans are underway for a mile-long waterfront park with spectacular views of New York harbor, the East River, and the Manhattan skyline.
www.nylcv.org /ecofiles/brooklyn/html/ccd33.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Association
The Boerum Hill Association is a voice for all residents — owners, renters, and business owners — interested in preserving and improving the quality of life in Boerum Hill.
It publishes a newsletter; holds general membership meetings open to all; sponsors the bi-annual Boerum Hill House Tour; maintains a vibrant on-line discussion group; and liaises with community, city, and state organizations.
For people who live or have business in or near Boerum Hill, getting involved in the BHA is a great way to get to know the community.
www.boerumhillbrooklyn.org   (117 words)

  
 SBN: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY
SBN: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY When Boerum Hill was developed between 1840 and 1870 on land owned by Charles Hoyt, Russell Nevins and the Gerritsen and Martenese families, the layout of the area was set down for our generation.
Residents banded together to resurrect the area and it was at this time that the neighborhood was officially renamed Boerum Hill, after Simon Boerum who had farmed the area during Colonial times.
Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill has become an antique buyers oasis, with special events during the warm weather months to draw buyers to the sidewalks covered in antiques.
www.southbrooklyn.net /sbnt03/boerum/boerum.html   (360 words)

  
 HPD's Guide to Homeownership in New York City: Neighborhoods: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Boerum Hill's northern boundary is Schermerhorn Street, which separates the neighborhood from the Downtown Brooklyn commercial district.
Boerum Hill is served by a number of subway lines: the Bergen Street stop on the F train, the Pacific or Union Street stops on the M/N/R, or Hoyt-Schermerhorn on the G train.
Boerum Hill is home to two public elementary schools: P.S. 38, the Pacific School; and PS 261, the Philip Livingston School, which is a magnet school for the arts.
www.nyc.gov /html/hpd/html/for-homebuyers/nychome-neighborhoods-brooklyn-boerumhill.html   (541 words)

  
 Sign Information
The homes that characterize Boerum Hill were built at a time when the emerging and growing middle class was searching for a way to avoid the cramped conditions of boarding houses in Manhattan.
The turn of the century brought even more people to Boerum Hill and Brooklyn in general; by 1930 it was the most populous borough in the city with over 2.5 million residents.
The railway tunnel, the oldest in Brooklyn, was built by the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad in the 1840s and runs from Boerum Place to the waterfront.
www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11720   (550 words)

  
 The Plans For Downtown Brooklyn Ignore Both People And Public Spaces (Gotham Gazette. January, 2004)
The new downtown Brooklyn rezoning plan is now moving through the city's land use approval process and local residents and civic groups are turning out in droves to raise their questions and register their complaints.
Brooklyn civic groups say the potential expansion will be seven million square feet while the city is only considering the potential environmental impact of 4.5 million.
The same Brooklyn elected officials who defend the interests of the elite school of bridge commuters are also cheerleading for the downtown rezoning, compounding the damage.
www.gothamgazette.com /article/landuse/20040116/12/841   (1495 words)

  
 Rent-Direct.com: Brooklyn apartments rentals Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens
This area is less expensive than Brooklyn Heights, with many more converted townhouses as floor-thru apartments.
Boerum Hill: East and downhill from Cobble Hill.
Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens: These neighborhoods are great for families: good public schools, lots of playgrounds and parks, friendly neighbors, almost the lowest crime rate in NYC, and as diverse as all of Brooklyn.
www.rent-direct.com /Brooklyn_Apartments/brooklyn-cobble-hill.html   (427 words)

  
 Boerum Hill apartments rentals rent Boerum Hill apartment rent. House rental apartments to rent rental Boerum Hill home ...
Cityleases.com is a Brooklyn Boerum Hill real estate rental website that advertises rental apartments, apartments for rent, subleases, houses for rent, homes, commercial rentals and roommates.
Brooklyn Boerum Hill rental apartments, houses, subleases, and potential tenants are not verified or evaluated.
Brooklyn Boerum Hill landlords and tenants using cityleases.com take full responsibility for their actions.
www.cityleases.com /Area_Rentals/NewYork/BoerumHill_Rentals.asp   (89 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Homepage
Bordered by Schermerhorn Street to the north and Warren Street to the south, Boerum Hill shares Court Street with Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights; as well as 4th Avenue with Park Slope.
By the turn of the century this simple plot of Dutch farmland had become the theater center of Brooklyn, the nearby Brooklyn Academy of Music surrounded by playhouses of all description.
Since the 1970's, Boerum Hill 's beautiful brownstones have attracted wave upon wave of young urban homeowners.
www.smalltownbrooklyn.com /boerumhill/boerumhome.html   (305 words)

  
 Brooklyn - NYWiki
The borough of Brooklyn is coterminus with Kings County, New York.
Brooklyn is the largest New York City borough by measure of population.
In 1898, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond (later Staten Island) as the five boroughs to form the modern City of Greater New York.
www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/Brooklyn   (688 words)

  
 Brooklyn Real Estate-Jeff Grandis-Associate Real Estate Broker for Fillmore Real Estate Brooklyn NY homes for sale,NY ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Brooklyn Real Estate-Jeff Grandis-Associate Real Estate Broker for Fillmore Real Estate Brooklyn NY houses for sale,NY ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Boerum Hill Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At the Boerum Hill Association's June 15, 2005 meeting at the Belarusian Church, architect Douglas Hamilton presented his Pacific Plan to the Boerum Hill community and answered questions afterwards.
The Boerum Hill Association is a NY not-for-profit corporation founded in 1963 to advocate for the Boerum Hill Community.
Last year the Boerum Hill Association ran an online survey to assess the quality of service that the neighborhood is receiving from the Times Plaza (11217) post office on Atlantic Avenue between 3rd and 4th ave.
www.boerumhillbrooklyn.org /index.rdf   (567 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Association: 2004 House Tour - "Legends of Boerum Hill"
At the end-of-tour reception at the Mugavero Center, Boerum Hill will pay tribute to the Mohawk Indian high-steel workers with a special exhibit detailing their many contributions to the neighborhood’s history.
The Mohawk high-steel workers have lived in Boerum Hill while helping to build every major structure in New York City since 1917, e.g.
The Cobble Hill School of American Studies is a high school (grades 9-12) where students follow a curriculum concentrated in social studies.
www.boerumhillbrooklyn.org /archives/000030.html   (234 words)

  
 GO Brooklyn
Boerum Hill Arts Center's production of "Steel Magnolias" features Coulter Kent as Clairee offering up Ouiser (Nancy Lindeberg) as a punching bag for M'Lynn (Dandy Stevenson).
Now it is on stage at the Boerum Hill Arts Center, directed by Boerum Hill resident Steven Edward Hart.
This is Hart's fourth production at the Boerum Hill Arts Center (last season he directed "The Heiress" and "The Cherry Orchard") and with it he really comes into his own.
www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol25/25_21/magnolias.html   (689 words)

  
 Open for Business
The neighborhood is filled with schools, and as the enormity of the tragedy became clear, people raced one way up Smith to retrieve their children and back again to take them home.
By Wednesday, as the Boerum Hill Food Co. was doing land-office business, the Boltons and their employees also realized that hard work was a form of therapy.
Boerum Hill Food Co. seems to be just the sort of neighborhood refuge that people seek out in times of crisis.
www.fastcompany.com /articles/archive/bolton.html   (1723 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Association: Membership Archives
The Boerum Hill Association is trying to strengthen our communication with all Boerum Hill residents — an up-dated website, meeting summaries and announcements posted on the e-group, flyers posted in community locations, and occasional mailings and door-to-door distributions.
The BHA recently did a mailing to many Boerum Hill residents inviting them to join or renew their memberships.
You’ll be supporting your Boerum Hill neighbors who want to insure that Boerum Hill has a voice in issues that affect us.
www.boerumhillbrooklyn.org /archives/cat_membership.html   (478 words)

  
 Boerum Hill Apartment
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Boerum Hill offers renters three- and four-story brownstone and brick front apartment homes.
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 Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill, Brooklyn - New York City Neighborhood - NYC
It’s a standard Brooklyn demographic: “Italians who’ve been here for years, Hispanics toward the Gowanus, yuppie families in the really nice brownstones, and twentysomethings renting from the yuppie families,” says resident Adam Green.
Boerum Hill stretches from Smith Street to Third Avenue and from Atlantic Avenue to Fifth Street.
Look for sale prices to hold for houses and larger apartments in Carroll Gardens and the prime section of Boerum Hill (closer to Cobble Hill), but to soften for less desirable units.
www.newyorkmetro.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/carrollboerum.htm   (798 words)

  
 BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture >>Useful Links
The Battle of Brooklyn was fought in Brooklyn between August 22 and August 27, 1776.
The Battle of Brooklyn (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Long Island) was the first engagement of the army of England and the army of the United States of America.
The largest artist-run association in Brooklyn, supporting growth of the visual arts by sponsoring exhibitions and educational programs that encourage public interaction with the vibrant artist community of Brooklyn.
www.brooklynx.org /bric/links/links.asp   (2206 words)

  
 Hills & Gardens: News & Views from Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The folks involved became aware of the honku through a Brooklyn band, One Ring Zero, that had used one of Aaron Naparstek's honkus as a lyric for a song.
He has been a regular at meetings of the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming project and, as a member of Transportation Alternatives, has been particularly focused on the Car-Free Prospect Park campaign: "What got me involved in the Prospect Park project was really the whole honku thing.
Living in Cobble Hill in the '90s, I was getting a sense that we were being overrun by traffic.
www.bikeweeknyc.com /press/media/2003/030130cobble.html   (907 words)

  
 HelloBrooklyn.com - Your guide to Brooklyn events, real estate, bars, family, hotels, movie times, music, nightclubs, ...
The “hills and hollers” of Park Slope will ring once again with the sounds of banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars and big upright basses when the eighth annual Park Slope Bluegrass and Old-Time Jamboree kicks off on September 16.
Brooklyn NY Real Estate Directory for Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Ditmas Park, Clinton Hill, Windor Terrace, Kensington, Red Hook, Crown Heights, Bedford Stuvesant, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Midwood, Sunset Park, Manhattan Beach, and more.
Brooklyn is now the fastest growing community in the New York metropolitan area and continues to be home to great numbers of former Manhattanites.
www.hellobrooklyn.com   (1676 words)

  
 DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN COALITION
For that reason, the Brooklyn Heights Association, along with nine other community associations has formulated the following statement of demands, which we’re calling the "Contract with the Community." They are not arbitrary.
We believe that it is essential that we and our elected officials come to an understanding, acknowledging the importance of the relationship between downtown Brooklyn and the ring of residential communities surrounding it.
This request is directed to the goals of the Downtown Plan, to "foster connections between the commercial and retail cores of Metrotech and Fulton Mall to the north, the Boerum Hill residential neighborhood to t he south.
www.brooklynheightsassociation.org /Downtown.html   (1551 words)

  
 Gothamist: BoCoCa - Not a New Cocoa
Posted by: Jen at March 15, 2004 10:20 AM as a boerum hill resident, i'm not sure how my neighborhood is tied to cobble hill and carroll gardens.
boerum hill could as easily be affiliated with fort green or park slope.
Posted by: Max at March 15, 2004 11:47 AM actually even boerum hill, where i live and which is ostensibly named after a dutch farm family, was invented out of thin air to sell real estate.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/03/15/bococa_not_a_new_cocoa.php   (1555 words)

  
 Capn Design Archives: Boerum Hill
The book is set in Lethem's childhood neighborhood, Boerum Hill, and the heart of the story takes place only three blocks from my apartment.
The story, as told by the author and Lethem in tandem, looked at how Boerum Hill changed from a neighborhood where you locked your car doors to the gentrified yuppietown it is now.
Then, Grocery is named to one of the top Zagat's lists and people start taking notice (sure, it might not be in Boerum Hill proper, but it is damn close).
www.capndesign.com /archives/2003/10/boerum_hill.php   (423 words)

  
 Beorum Hill
But the rear opened onto a backyard that, for these refugees from Manhattan, was part of a secret quadrangle of greenery running almost continuously along the block's center, an urban arcadia that astonished and delighted them.
In an Oct. 15 letter to the Boerum Hill Association, Diane Jackier, director of community and government affairs of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said the extension would not violate any of the commission's rules.
And according to Ilyse Fink, director of communications of the Department of Buildings, that agency found the extension in compliance with its regulations; however, the owner is required to plant a street tree in front of his building.
www.nostadium.homestead.com /files/bhblogger.html   (450 words)

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