'The Heights' tapped for Hollywood

The Brooklyn Heights blog shares that "The Heights" author Peter Hedges will adapt, direct and produce the film version of his latest novel.

It's too premature to say if the film will be shot here. Hedges has said that setting in the Heights was a tribute to a neighborhood where writers including Thomas Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller lived and wrote. Any idea what notable directors have called the nabe home?