Yesterday afternoon, an 88-year-old man crossing Court Street in downtown Brooklyn was hit by a car. The man was on the car's hood/windshield and witnesses told police the driver swerved for a block to shake the victim off. One witness told the Daily News, "Half his body was inside the car and the other half was hanging outside the passenger seat... [The driver] didn't show no remorse. He was just trying to get rid of......

Yesterday, it was announced Tishman-Speyer, the real estate firm that bought Stuyvesant Town for $5.4 billion, along with Lehman Brothers would buy real estate investment trust Archstone Smith in a $22.2 billion deal; the Observer calls it the "largest public-to-private acquisition ever among apartment REIT’s." Archstone Smith has over over 85,000 rentals nationally and almost 3,800 in NYC, which would given Tishman-Speyer over 15,000 apartments for its portfolio. According to Crain's, there's been more interest......

On Passover, Coca-Cola makes special Kosher Coke with regular sugar (instead of corn syrup)-- it tastes like the Mexican version enjoyed by many Coke enthusiasts. You can recognize it by the yellow cap and OU-P symbol. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: DOA floater in the Harlem River, serious MVA in Brooklyn Heights, and a boat fire in City Island. Caffeine fiends rejoice: free coffee at local Starbucks tomorrow from 10am to 12 noon. The......

Yesterday, webchango uploaded some photographs of a man who had been shot after trying to rob a Brooklyn Heights Citibank. It turns out would-be robber Andy Wilson hit the Montague Street branch with a 12-inch knife and demanded money by "banging. his knife" against the bulletproof window, yelling, "Give me the money!" The bank teller had hit a panic button instead, so Wilson broke the lights over the teller, letting shards of glass fall on......

The Administration for Children's Services has yet another problem on its hands. A Brooklyn mother who was visiting her daughter at an ACS-contracted foster facility managed to kidnap the 5 year old, Egypt Lewis. Deneen Peterkin returned her 5 year old to St. Vincent's Services, a foster agency on Montague Street, yesterday when she found out police were looking for her. The Daily News reports that Peterkin managed to get away with her daughter by......

Bad Santas everywhere, rejoice, for Santacon 2005 has arrived. Santas are meeting up at 10am at the Supreme Court Building in Brooklyn, at the foot of Montague Street. From there, it'll be many hours of mayhem, as the Santas rampage across the city. We'll try to post location as they come in, and we'll be watching the Santacon tag on Flickr for mobile pictures. If you're planning on joining the fun, let us know......

Another one bites the dust. Brooklyn Heights' most elegant, friendly supermarket has shut its doors - the D'Agostino's on the corner of Henry Street and Love Lane. Housed in, well, a house of sorts, the Heights' D'Ag was always an oasis of clean and calm in comparison to its local brethren - the nasty Henry Street Gristedes and Montague Street Key Foods to be exact. Now, it looks like fine food shopping will solely be......

Brooklyn Heights' Montague Street can finally claim its very own Tasti D-Lite. The Haagen-Daz up the street can eat its heart - and hips - out. Already, brownstone Brooklyn gals are lining up at the newest branch in Tasti D-Lite's franchise family to indulge in frozen confections flavored with Oreo, Peanut Butter, Rice Pudding and more. And, if the chain's marketing materials are to be believed, it's actually low in calories, 100% natural, cholesterol free......

Montague Street, the main shopping and dining drag in Brooklyn Heights has long been known as a drag when it comes to its restaurant scene. In stark contrast, Smith Street sings its haute (hot) cuisine siren's song and Brooklyn Heights residents follow to sup at dining establishments which vary from Zagat fave The Grocery and lauded contemporary American Chestnut to Thai top spot Tuk Tuk and late-night French bistro Bar Tabac. So, it was with......

Temptations for culinary connoisseurs abound across the five boroughs, from Zabar's to Murray's Cheese Shop to the Sullivan Street Bakery. But, there is something to be said for the gourmand that wants to reflect their fashion sense along with their food sensibility. For this unique creature, for whom Cynthia Rowley is as important as Nebbiola d'Alba, Gothamist suggests a trip to one of the city's outposts of Fishs Eddy. For the fashonista, who needs a......

If you are unfamiliar with the oft-used term "feh" it is defined by one Yiddish-to-English dictionary as: "It stinks! No good." Suffice to say, "feh" is most certainly not what Gothamist looks for in a dining experience. But we can't help but notice that one Brooklyn restauranteur, Nando Ghorchian, has perfected the artform of the middling meal with a string of mediocre haunts in Brooklyn Heights, ranging from Montague Street's Caffe Buon Gusto to the......

Gothamist is always on the lookout for the out-of-the-way, under-the-radar spot that deserves to be recognized by foodies and bar aficionados alike. But, who would've thunk that the bustling neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights would actually have an honest-to-goodness Italian dining and wining destination hidden away, awaiting discovery? We didn't need to send out a team of archaeologists to find Palmira's, but it wouldn't have hurt. The restaurant is situated on the strictly residential corner of......

Hey, Lower Manhattan, Governor Pataki wants to give you a direct rail link to JFK Airport. Reports say that Governor Pataki will probably announce that officials are looking to dig a tunnel under the East River for the project, although there is the possibility of using the Montague Street subway tunnel, which has the M, N and R right now. The Times puts the cost of the project at $5-5.5 billion, with tunnel digging an......

Gothamist is always interested in New York crime stories, and yesterday's discovery of pipe bombs in Brooklyn Heights makes for a truly confusing case. Take a look at the details and post your hypothesis in comments. The opening of the Times article gives a sense of the strange intrigue: Nearly two years ago, a 64-year-old military buff was arrested on charges that he set off a pipe bomb at a Brooklyn Heights party thrown for......