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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, FEB. 3, 2019
DIRT
Manhattan skyline, costs a
whopping $41,160,300, compared
to a like-sized plot in
Brooklyn, Iowa which commands
a measly $55,700
price tag, the Post reported
citing a federal analysis of
average neighborhood land
values across all 50 states
from 2012 to 2017.
The Heights — where
households’ median income
hovers around
$109,472, according to 2016
federal Cesus Bureau data
— is home to several celebrities,
including couple
John Krasinski and Emily
Blunt , and fellow A-lister
Matt Damon , all of whom
reportedly recently inked
deals on condos inside the
The Standish, a swanky
building on Columbia
Heights.
Damon allegedly paid
$16.75 million for his pad
in the Heights — much of
which constitutes the city’s
fi rst landmarked historic
district — setting record
sale price for a piece of
Kings County residential
real estate.
But some deep-pocketed
fi nancier is expected to
close soon on a more than
$20-million deal to buy a
penthouse inside the luxury
Quay Tower rising
nearby at Pier 6 in Brooklyn
Bridge Park, which
would smash the record set
by Damon — and only add
to the value of the neighborhood’s
soil.
Brooklyn Heights isn’t
WORTH GOLD: Brooklyn Paper intern Natallie Rocha shows off the
country’s most expensive dirt from Brooklyn Heights.
Photo by Maya Harrison
Kings County’s only enclave
sitting on golden
ground, however — the
parts of Park Slope closest
to Prospect Park boast
the second-priciest dirt in
the country, at $34,690,200
per acre, according to the
report, which named soil
in other parts of the Slope
the eighth-most expensive,
at $25,884,800 per acre,
and land in Gowanus and
Carroll Gardens as the
tenth-most expensive, at
$23,412,200 per acre.
The federal study, however,
did not include land
in several counties across
the country, including
Manhattan, according to
the Post report .
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her journal.
“My journal is a big
part of this book because it
helped me come to a place
of healing and I had feelings
I didn’t know I had,”
said Headlam. “These were
feelings that pretty much
laid dormant for years, but
were very necessary to my
identity.”
Her memoir builds
on those journal entries,
chronicling her journey
towards acceptance after
her separation and eventual
divorce.
While writing about
her feelings, Headlam realized
that dealing with
her traumatic past was
a necessary part of her
journey. She had grown
up in a abusive home and
been the victim of sexual
assault in her childhood
— memories that she had
worked hard to forget, she
said.
“I had to revisit a place
in my life that I didn’t want
to, and I was struggling
with the fact that I was molested
as young child, because
I blocked it out of my
mind and was numb to it,”
said Headlam.
Speaking openly about
the abuse was one of the
biggest challenges she
faced writing the memoir.
But after a lot of selfdoubt
and delays, she
says that it was integral
to her story.
“I think we all get to a
place in life that in order to
grow and walk in our purpose,
we have to visit the
broken places and come to
place of healing or a place of
wholeness,” said Headlam.
“If we don’t, we’ll always be
on a spinning wheel going
nowhere.”
At the book launch, the
actress and author will
read excerpts from her
book and screen a short
documentary fi lm.
“Love After…” book release
at Stuart Cinema and
Cafe 79 West St. between
Milton Street and Greenpoint
Avenue in Greenpoint,
(347) 721–3777, www.
stuartcinema.com. Feb. 9
at 7 pm. Free.
BOOK
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