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...Homes are a mix of traditional brownstones, newer town houses, low-rise apartment blocks and converted commercial or warehouse spaces, with trees lining the streets or overlooking rear garden spaces....
...But “prime” Brooklyn is relatively compact: mostly the borough’s northernmost neighbourhoods such as Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Dumbo and parts of Williamsburg...
...Sauced, a natural wine bar in Williamsburg....
...“If you go to my regular bar, there’s no Southern Comfort, no Jack Daniel's, no Anheuser-Busch and no televisions. All those decisions are designed to turn away 85 per cent of business....
...Some of the businesses around East Williamsburg between Grand and Maujer streets are visible — like the big self-storage warehouses, meatpacking warehouses, building-supply stores and the tyre and auto-repair...
...I saw it, rather than heard it, years ago in Williamsburg, where the office used to be. I was at my desk and I remember so distinctly seeing those words in a book....
...But the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is taking a new approach....
...Luckily, we had a great architect who reimagined this space from a closed galley to an open, sun-filled kitchen with enormous windows that open onto the back garden....
...The best gift I’ve received recently was a signet ring, from Rebus in Hatton Garden, which has my initials on it. It’s from my best friend, who I met when I was 15....
...The little wabi-sabi courtyard garden is (still) a bit of understated heaven, and warrants an aperitivo wherever you might be staying....
...Previously, he served as president and chief executive of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and president of Washington College....
...“I love the small scale,” he says, of neighbourhoods such as Williamsburg, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, “that the Upper West Side kind of used to have.”...
...Erftstadt’s CDU candidates decided not to campaign at all, while Axel Busch, a local SPD politician, is also cautious....
...While England’s new lockdown only permits people to meet with one other person from another household in public outdoor spaces, households have been preparing for months of winter socialising in their gardens...
...On Park Slope the same agent is selling a three-bedroom period apartment with a garden for $2.9m....
...he envisages the rooftop bar as the deck of an ocean liner and each room as a cabin, or reopening an 18th-century quarry to get the right sand to remake the bricks that built the governor’s mansion in Williamsburg...
...It will split the EC Properties arm from its Covent Garden regeneration business. A demerger had been on the cards for more than a year....
...For about $800 per sq foot, Lior Barak of Compass real estate is selling a six-bedroom house with a garden on Devoe Street....
...“You don’t have soaring condo buildings here like you see in Williamsburg or Downtown Brooklyn,” she says....
...“The Williamsburg of Tokyo”, as he describes it, was already popular with fashion and media firms and “the [visiting] man buns of Melbourne”....
...In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens and Bushwick, sales rose 21 per cent....
...The idea was inspired by her upbringing in the rural English county of Wiltshire, where her mother grew garden vegetables and bought local produce....
...But it does not surpass the near $2bn in taxes and fees that brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev shelled out in its £79bn takeover of SABMiller in 2016....
...An uneducated builder/carpenter, he had seen the influx of visitors from Philadelphia, who could now drive here in under 90 minutes on Eisenhower’s new Garden State Parkway....
...Buying guide On a good day, the car journey from Williamsburg to Greenport takes roughly two hours The fastest trains run between New York’s Penn Station and Greenport in a shade over two and a half hours...
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