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The Brooklyn Eagle reports that tours of the Atlantic Avenue tunnel are done. Mcbrooklyn adds that the Atlantic Tunnel hero Bob Diamond is leaving Brooklyn, possibly because he can’t fight Borough Hall. Though he found the oldest subway tunnel in the world right underneath Atlantic Avenue, he has been unable to get the ok to tear down the underground wall he believes hides its train. (more…)
If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t seen Paul Giamatti around Brooklyn Heights recently it may be because he’s pretty darn busy! (more…)
BHB reader “Rich” sends us this photo of a very special rearrangement of Cutting Den’s sign at the Clark Street station. Guess the students are back and school’s back in session!
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Brooklyn Heights resident/BHB contributor Heather Quinlan gets some more press attention this week for her NY accent movie If These Knishes Could Talk, this time from the BBC:
BBC: For the last year-and-a-half, Quinlan, a native New Yorker and film-maker, has followed the same routine for her first documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk.
The film, part comedic banter and part serious discussion, will not only bring a taste of the NY accent to audiences, but also examine how it’s changed as the city has changed.
“I have one grandfather who was a speech teacher and another grandfather who was a truck driver, and both are New Yorkers. And I feel like this film kind of bridges the gap between those two worlds a little bit,” Quinlan explains.
Newsweek writer Ben Adler discusses the controversy surrounding the planned mosque near Ground Zero and mentions the influence of churches in his native Park Slope and near St. Ann’s where he went to school:
Newsweek: Perhaps my favorite is Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, its unadorned, modest New England Congregationalist architecture a striking, peaceful counterpoint to the Victorian grandeur of its surrounding neighborhood. Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.
And then there is St. Ann’s, the Episcopal congregation that incubated my progressive high school, and still lends its large and riveting, if somewhat worn-out, space to the school for major events. There, in the pews, under the stained-glass windows, were the sources of some of my fondest and most poignant memories of high school: a teacher leading us all in an acoustic rendition of The Wall by Pink Floyd at the annual Christmas assembly, a recent memorial service for a social-studies teacher who mentored me.
Doug Biviano
Ask State Assembly Candidate Doug Biviano about himself, and the first thing he’ll say is he’s a P.S. 8 parent who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Then, almost as if to prove it, he’ll ask the waitress at Heights Café to bring him a Brooklyn Brewery beer. (more…)
Today we learn that the scoundrel who smirked, “I don’t do CPR” as 11 year old Briana Ojeda lay dying of an asthma attack Sunday in Cobble Hill, has been identified as NYPD officer Alfonso Mendez from our very own 84th Precinct. He has been suspended and faces termination: (more…)
Flickr photo by jessekalim
It’s September already! Comment away!!
Ladies’ handbags can’t stay still; Equinox fills the void left by Planet Fitness; and a thief makes off with a $700 vibrator. It’s this week’s blotter.
Flatbush Gardener photo
BHB contributor Claude Scales is celebrating 5 years of his own blog Self Absorbed Boomer today. Claude’s been an essential cog in the BHB machinery and if you haven’t read his personal take on things Brooklyn and beyond now is a good time to check out SAB.
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