About

Clinton Hill Blog was one of NYC’s first hyperlocal blog sites. The site posted regularly (usually daily) between 2006 and 2010. Always written by and for local residents, the blog profiled local businesses, architecture and culture, solved local mysteries and documented change.

While the blog may publish posts now and then, regular posting ended on July 19, 2010. The site remains live as an archive and love letter to this amazing neighborhood.

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From Founder and Editor Robin Lester Kenton (aka Lesterhead):

I moved to Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in April 2004. I was instantly thrilled with the amount of things to do and things to see, but became frustrated with the lack of updated information and resources available to find out what was going on in the area.

Rather than wait for someone else to do the work, I decided to do it myself. Clinton Hill Blog was officially launched in July 2006.

In the four years that I ran this site, I focused on musings, photos and writing about the local things that fascinated me — the site was never meant to be a comprehensive news source, but more of an online narrative of day-to-day life in the neighborhood. I always considered myself as a non-fiction writer and never a journalist.

My time writing CHB introduced me to many different aspects of the neighborhood, as well as countless neighbors and business owners. I spent a wonderful six years in Clinton Hill, before getting married and moving farther east into Brooklyn. I still get homesick.

During my time writing, many local blogs came and went. Every voice  made for a richer, more vibrant online local community. While online news coverage has become much more comprehensive in the last few years, I really miss those early days when people were doing it themselves and writing from the heart.

 

7 Thoughts on “About”

  1. Fabrizio Cassa on October 10, 2008 at 7:02 pm said:

    Hi , I need to know info about advetising on your site. Check my site out and you will see I have re-developed a building on Vanderbilt, actually the condo name if Fort Greene Hill Condominiums!It is actually on tthe border of Ft. Grn and Clinton Hill.

    Thanks , Fabrizio Cassa

    516 359 4892

  2. Fabrizio Cassa on October 10, 2008 at 7:05 pm said:

    Hi , I need to know info about advetising on your site. Check my site out and you will see I have re-developed a building on Vanderbilt, actually the condo name if Fort Greene Hill Condominiums!It is actually on tthe border of Ft. Grn and Clinton Hill.

    Thanks , Fabrizio Cassa

    516 359 4892 http://fortgreenehill.com

  3. Michelle on October 22, 2008 at 3:21 pm said:

    Hi, what camera(s) do you shoot with?

  4. Hi Robin.... on January 7, 2009 at 1:39 pm said:

    Hi Robin,
    Just checking out your site – seems great… Happy New Year! Hope all is well…
    your fellow sister-brooklyn-ite.
    Tricia Mac

  5. Attika on May 24, 2009 at 3:42 pm said:

    Hi,

    I’d like to know how to post some really great events going on in Clinton Hill on this site. Along with the events, we have opened a great film production facility in Clinton Hill and would love to get the word out.

    Please advise.

    Thanks
    ATTIKA

  6. awk on May 27, 2009 at 2:47 pm said:

    This web site is infected with a spyware . My antivrus kept catching the spyware/virus (FakeAlert-AntiVirusPro!hosts) whenever i visit this site

  7. Ramona on June 15, 2009 at 11:09 am said:

    I’m trying to publish a comment in the pet section. I’m looking for Ratchet. He’s a six month old pit that my hubby gave to a man that lives on Classon Avenue. I have a dog as well, and they were like brothers. I want to make sure he’ ok and if his new home needs any help, perhaps babysitting to go out of town or anything. Can you help getting this posted?

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