Riverside Tenants Receive BHA’s ‘Outstanding Community Service’ Award

From left, Ciaccio, Campbell and Ringler pose on an outside Riverside stairway with the BHA award.

Following is the statement read as part of the presentation by the Brooklyn Heights Association of an Award for Outstanding Community Service to the Tenants Association of the Riverside Buildings in Willowtown at the BHA’s 101st annual meeting Monday evening, February 28, at Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in the Heights.  William “Bill” Ringer [...]

Willowtown Gives First Alfred Awards

From left, Newbury, Marvel, Ringler and Campbell

The retiring chair of the tenants association at the Riverside Apartments in Willowtown in Brooklyn Heights, William “Bill” Ringler, and the restorer of a long neglected brownstone also in Willowtown, Jonathan Marvel, are the first recipients of a new award, The Alfred, established by the Willowtown [...]

Role Models for All Seasons

The following talk was given by historic preservationist Otis Pratt Pearsall at the rally opening the 2010 Spring Fair of the Willowtown Association on Saturday, May 15:

Ben Bankson, Otis Pearsall, Daniel Squadron and Marty Markowitz

I ask you, what could be finer on this gorgeous day than to be right [...]

DHCR Upholds Riverside Apartments Parking Garage Decision

This week in Willowtown tenants of Riverside Apartments rejoice in the news that the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) upheld it original decision and denied the appeal of the landlord for administrative review of an earlier decision. This decision was short and to the point; The building of a parking garage [...]