Brooklyn Heights News
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Calvert Crary, a Wall Street lawyer who crafted a business out of providing investors an edge by predicting the outcome of corporate court battles, has died. He was 69.
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Since Douglas Steiner transformed the Brooklyn Navy Yard into Hollywood-style studios in 2004, productions from “American Gangster” to “Boardwalk Empire” have been filmed there. The New Jersey native says he’d have been better off if he’d focused instead on buying and building properties in New York’s most populous borough.
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“I want her, the blond one,” says the man behind bars searching for fresh meat.
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Passing through a woolly hedge, I found dozens of children romping through fountains and sliding down a gurgling watercourse. Here was a great playground created within Brooklyn Bridge Park, now making a spectacular setting accessible to the public.
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Meeting at Hotchkiss , Henry Luce and Briton Hadden formed an unlikely friendship. A poor scholarship boy, Luce had been raised in China by his Christian missionary parents, while Hadden grew up a rebellious son of privilege in Brooklyn Heights. Competitive and ambitious, the two stuck together and launched the magazine that would transform the news business.
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Beneath the shiny surfaces and glib ripostes of Daniel Goldfarb’s “Cradle and All” lurks a refreshingly mean-spirited misanthropy. You may go home with dark feelings about yourself or your significant other, but please leave the kid, if there is a kid, out of it.
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Ted Shen , a New York investment banker turned Medici of experimental musicals, took a midday Delta Air Lines shuttle last week to Washington for the opening of “Sycamore Trees” at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.
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Temperatures in New York City passed 100 degrees today for a second day in a row, the first back-to- back readings that high since 1999, the National Weather Service reported.
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Hal Prince must have heard that something extraordinary was taking place at the Public Theater.
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Paul Calello , who as head of Credit Suisse Group AG ’s investment bank managed the unit through the financial crisis and helped build the company’s operations in Asia, has died. He was 49.
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