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Community Board 2 Executive Director Perris Resigns
The Brooklyn Paper’s Kevin Duggan reports that Robert Perris, who for seventeen years has served as executive director of Brooklyn Community Board 2, which serves Brooklyn Heights and nearby communities, has announced his resignation effective December 26. According to the Brooklyn Paper story, “he wants to focus on his family after 17 years at the helm of the Downtown Brooklyn civic panel.”CB2 board chair Lenny Singletary told the Brooklyn Paper that there will be …
Meet the old-fashioned signmaker painting Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Talk about making your mark! A Prospect Lefferts Gardens craftsman is lending local mom-and-pop shops an old-timey feel, devising hand-painted signs that would feel right at home hanging over a 19th-century doorway. “It feels like I’m a small-town sign painter 100 years ago,” said Travis Fitzsimmons. A Lincoln Avenue resident, Fitzsimmons makes his living as a signmaker, hand-crafting individualized markers, and operating by word of mouth, as shopkeepers swear by the marketing value of his artisanal calligraphy, he said. “There’s more feeling when you actually have a human being doing brush strokes,” said Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons claims he fell into sign making — a profession he…
Is a Bistricer/Chetrit Feud Behind Lack of Progress on the Bossert?
In early July the Eagle reported, in a story we linked to here, that one of the hotel’s owners, either David Bistricer or Joseph Chetrit, had said that “a major announcement” about the hotel would be made soon. It was presumed that this would be of a firm opening date for the hotel, which has been postponed several times since six years ago. No such announcement has been made, and no visible work has been done on the hotel for some time. The Bossert’s renovation process is beginning to rival in length the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.Now the Brooklyn Paper reports that…