Brooklyn Heights Blog

For those who are interested, Community Board 2, which serves Brooklyn Heights (and a few other neighborhoods), will have their monthly meeting at 6pm today. It will be in the basement cafeteria of the Muhlenberg Residence, a 201-unit dwelling for low income, homeless, housing needy, and community people, at 510 Atlantic Avenue (GMAP). Call (718)-596-5410 for more info.

Community Board meetings are open to the public, so if you would like to say your peace, or see Democracy In Action, or just got nothin to do, drop in on the fun! Don’t know much about community boards? There’s helpful information at nyc.gov and Gotham Gazette.

Sidebar: the Community Board 2 website is quite lame when compared to Community Board 6 and Community Board 9. Discuss.

What’s happenin’ in your head this week?

BHA House Tour!

Paddlewheeler Festival!!

Farewell Microsoft Portrait Store thingy, we hardly knew ye…

Spill on Aisle 5

… and whatever else is on your mind…comment away!

Flickr photo by moshimoshitoshi

BHB Photo Club pic by clarknt67

McBrooklyn reports that 20 Henry Street wasn’t en fuego Saturday, it was just being used for drill practice by our pals at FDNY Engine Company 205 Ladder Company 118.

Ha! Ha! B. Klown yucks it up with the kids of P.S. 8 at Saturday’s (5/10) Paddlewheeler Festival.

Photo: Aki Tuccu

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Design Sponge visits pals in a 300 square foot Brooklyn Heights apartment and uncovers some nifty things including an aisle sign from our friendly neighborhood Gristedes: Read more »

Nabe blogger Jared Brodsky laments the demise of that temporary oasis of weirdness the Microsoft Live Portrait Studio:

jared.brodsky: A few weeks ago I noticed that Microsoft made an interesting move and opened up Microsoft Live Picture Studio on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. At first I did a double-take thinking, “Could they really have opened up a picture studio?” What a waste. Apparently, they opened up for a “three week pre-Mother’s Day program.” Never once did I see anyone walk in. The only action I saw around the store was a few young girls dressed in the Microsoft garb, (khakis and a dark blue/black shirt with the Microsoft Live logo) hanging outside the store on the steps. Well, on my way home from work tonight I walk passed, and guess what, bye bye Live Studio. Your three weeks have expired. Good riddance. Now show me an Apple store will ya, Steve (Jobs)?

BHB Photo Club pic by amysahba

Curbed snapped this and other photos of the rising waterfall tower on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront.