The NY Times Sheds Light on the Opposition to Affordable Housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on August 1, 2014 4:23 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Real Estate

The New York Times has posted an in-depth look at the recent opposition to housing – notably the “affordable” kind – at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6. After the city added an affordable housing component to the park’s long standing housing plan, a neighborhood group including long time Willowtown resident Joe Merz and lead by [...]

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NYC DOT Begins Work on BQE Cantilever This Monday

By on August 1, 2014 11:52 am in Traffic, Transportation

Extensive surface repairs to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway cantilever deck below the Brooklyn Heights promenade will commence on Monday, August 4. The BHA website reports that the New York City Department of Transportation will begin milling and paving of the full surface of the eastbound (towards Queens) BQE from Atlantic Ave to Cadman Plaza West. [...]

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JtH Next Door Serving Oysters, Cocktails, Small Plates Opens in Brooklyn Heights

By on August 1, 2014 10:28 am in Food

The long awaited opening of JtH Next Door is here. The satellite of Jack the Horse is serving small plates, cocktails and oysters. Eater NY adds the menu features, “fried goat cheese balls with spiced honey, smoked trout deviled eggs, and roasted brussels sprouts and radishes.” We passed by last night and observed what very [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 31, 2014 11:42 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Religion

On Friday evening, August 1, starting at 7:00, Bargemusic will present an eclectic mixture of classical (Schubert), modern (Charles Ives), and contemporary (Scott Wheeler and Martin Boykan) music performed on piano by Donald Berman (photo, by Gil Gilbert). On Saturday evening at 7:00 and on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 the Manhattan Symphonie Chamber Orchestra, featuring [...]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

By on July 31, 2014 4:18 pm in Transportation

This coming weekend–from 11:45 p.m Friday, August 1 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, August 4, Brooklyn bound F trains will be diverted to the A/C line from West 4th Street in Manhattan to Jay Street-MetroTech, so no service from Manhattan to York Street in DUMBO. If that’s your destination, you can either get off at High [...]

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Do You Live in the Fort Stirling Neighborhood? Do You Want To?

By on July 31, 2014 10:41 am in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Neighborhoods, Streets

BHB reader Ion Freeman has Willowtown envy: he wants to live in a part of Brooklyn Heights that has a name, other than “Brooklyn Heights” or even “the North Heights.” We’re not sure exactly where he lives; it’s “in some unnamed region of the [N]orth [H]eights between the fruit streets and Montague.” The name he [...]

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Another Monroe Place Feline Foundling

By on July 30, 2014 6:55 am in Pets

We’re happy to report that our last lost Monroe Place feline was reunited with its humans, but there must be something in the water over there, as our friends at BBAWC report that another lonely feline was found on Monroe last weekend. This nine-week old kitten was found by residents of the street who reached [...]

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Open Thread Wednesday 7/30/14

By on July 30, 2014 12:33 am in open thread

What’s on your mind? Comment away! Photo: Beth Eisgrau-Heller

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Game of Cones: One Man’s Struggle at the Brooklyn Heights Haagen Dazs

By on July 29, 2014 7:41 pm in War On Fun

The following is a Brooklyn Bugle reader’s account of their experience at the Montague Street Haagen Dazs in Brooklyn Heights.

READ THE FULL STORY AT THE BROOKLYN BUGLE

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This “NYPD” No Parking Sign on Pierrepont Street Looks Legit, Right?

By on July 29, 2014 7:22 pm in Parking

A BHB reader sent us this photo of a No Parking sign posted on Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights. He comments:

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Marty Markowitz Will Guest Maître d’ at Noodle Pudding

By on July 29, 2014 4:50 pm in Food

This dispatch just in from NYC & Company:

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Heights Author Elizabeth Gaffney to Speak at Brooklyn Historical Society Tuesday August 5

By on July 28, 2014 1:07 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Literature

Brooklyn Heights resident and novelist Elizabeth Gaffney will be at the Brooklyn Historical Society Tuesday August 5 starting at 7:00 to discuss her second novel, When the World Was Young, which is to be released for publication that day. Set in post-World War II Brooklyn, this powerful story follows misfit Wally Baker as she comes [...]

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New Rite Aid Store Will Open Thursday

By on July 26, 2014 10:12 am in Commercial Real Estate

Posters are up on both the current Rite Aid at Clinton & Montague and the new one at Clinton & Joralemon. The Montague St. store will permanently close next Wednesday, July 30th, and the new store on Joralemon will open on Thursday, July 31. The new store will be open 24 hours a day, with [...]

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NYT Takes a Stroll in Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on July 26, 2014 9:54 am in brooklyn bridge park

The New York Times posted a feature about Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday. The piece included an interview with the park’s landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh:

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Photos: HBO’s Boardwalk Empire Shoots on Monroe Place and Turns Back the Clock to 1931

By on July 25, 2014 9:43 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Movie shoots

HBO’s Boardwalk Empire filmed on Monroe Place today and will be filming in the vicinity at least through Monday. This is the final season of the drama starring Brooklyn’s own Steve Buscemi and early reports say that no character is safe.

Check out our photos and a SPOILER (sorta) after the jump.

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 25, 2014 5:23 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Food, Fun, Kids, Maritime, movies, Music

Today (Friday, July 25) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will have its premiere showings of A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and based on a novel by spy fiction master John le Carré. It will continue to show through the weekend and the following week, along with Chef. On Saturday evening at [...]

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