As we previously announced, Brooklyn Heights Cinema will present a preview of our Heather Quinlan’s work-in-progress, If These Knishes Could Talk, on Thursday evening, February 9 from 6:45 to 8:00. Knishes and egg creams will be served. Proceeds will help to fund completion of the film. You can buy tickets here. We hope to see you there.
75 Clinton Street Nixes Condo Sales; Goes After “Booming” Rental Market
The gruesomely unattractive condo conversion at 75 Clinton and Montague streets (above Rite Aid) has scrubbed plans to sell the saltine box’s 74 units, instead vying to go rental. The building’s new owner, Dallas-based investment firm Invesco, will bring the project to market early next month, according to Crain’s.
Good luck: Prices range from $2,800 to $7,000 a month. Continue Reading →
New 5-Level Townhouse At 314 Hicks Is Rising Fast
When does a single family home have its own sales website? Answer: When the asking price is $6.2 million for new construction in the Heights. The five-story red brick townhouse (including garden level) at 314 Hicks Street on the corner of State, is one story from topping out, according to Brownstoner. Inside: 5 bedrooms: 5 baths & 2 powder rooms, living & formal dining rooms, family room, eat-in kitchen and study. Continue Reading →
Talent Agency Wants Your Cute Brooklyn Heights Kid To Model
Editor’s note: We are doing further investigation on this developing story. As with any modeling agency, we strongly suggest interested parties do their due diligence before making any agreement. In general, if a talent agency is asking you to pay them, find another talent agency.
Apparently, Brooklyn Heights has a reputation for comely kids. Why, yours is certainly cute. Have you ever thought of making a buck or two from his handsome little mug? Now’s your chance. A talent agent is searching for a boy 10-12 years old specifically in the Heights to model for an independent jeans designer’s video look-book. Continue Reading →
NYTimes looks at Appellate Division on Monroe Place
Recently, the NYTimes offered a superficial and frustrating article entitled: “A Judgeship With Prestige, and, Oh, What a Grand Room“. The article fails to include any significant historical or architectural information about this building. On the bright side, at least the St. Ann’s “smoking lounge” didn’t get included in the photo. Continue Reading →
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Baluchi’s Indian Restaurant Cooking On Henry Street
And that makes three. Baluchi’s Indian restaurant is preparing to open its 10th NYC location, in Brooklyn Heights, at the north end of Henry Street near Cranberry Street.
McBrooklyn shares that it joins Gandhi Palace on Montague (which replaced Amin) and Curry Heights on Remsen. Continue Reading →
Downtown Brooklyn “Skyscraper District” On Track For Approval
Despite vehement opposition from segments of the local real estate community, the downtown Brooklyn “Borough Hall Skyscraper District” is on track for approval by the New York City Council. On Tuesday, January 24, the plan offering landmark protection to 21 buildings that abut Brooklyn Heights, was given a go by the Council’s landmarks subcommittee, all but ensuring the entire Council will ratify it Feb. 1. (See BHB’s previous Jan. 19 post here.) Continue Reading →
Lost and Found: Have You Seen this Shoe?
BHB reader “Jane” writes to us that her baby threw a shoe out of her stroller somewhere around Montague Street and Henry Tuesday afternoon. Considering our record of reuniting the lost and their owners we figured we’d give it a try. If you found the companion to the shoe pictured below email us (webmaster at brooklynheightsblog.com). We’ll give the finder a nice BHB prize package.
Update:As “Jane” comments below the shoe has been found and reunited with it’s other half and “Crazy Baby”! Continue Reading →
Big “Mews”: 9 College Place 25% Sold
This is the best news that Love Lane Mews has offered in some time: The 38-unit condo complex at 9 College Place in Brooklyn Heights is now 25% sold, according to Multi-Channel News. In addition, the city’s Building Department has issued its Final Certificate of Occupancy. Continue Reading →
NBC’s Upcoming “Smash” Returns To Lense In The Heights
NBC’s upcoming mid-season replacement “Smash,” must be counting on a ratings boon when it launches Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. The show’s crew returned to film in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO Monday. Seen: lead Katharine McPhee, and episode guests Uma Thurman and Jerry O’Connell. The latter pair was photographed with the “Kill Bill” star playing a courier and landing a punch upside Jerry’s face after she handed over a package. Continue Reading →
Will Someone Buy the Heights Cinema Building to Preserve It?
Kate Briquelet’s Brooklyn Paper story quotes Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy as saying he has “received e-mails from people interested in buying the building.”
The Brooklyn Paper: “There are a lot of people who want to keep it around,” said Lowy, who hopes to find a new home for the theater if the building can’t be saved. “It makes it easier to move forward knowing we have all this support.” Continue Reading →
Here’s What Happened To Shuttered Heights Veterinary Hospital…
Following the BHB post January 2 that the Heights Veterinary Hospital at 59 Hicks Street closed without warning at year’s end, the Brooklyn Paper now shares the rest of the story.
Doc Richard Turoff told writer Natalie O’Neill that the November death of one-time co-worker and friend Bernard Wasserman, who lived above the business, prompted his decision to retire. Continue Reading →
BHS Exhibit Praised on Times Opinion Page
Brooklyn native and New York Times writer Francis X. Clines, in a short essay at the bottom of today’s opinion page, observes:
Just as Americans visit the Old World in search of family roots, tourists are showing up at the Brooklyn Historical Society, in hopes of tracking down their grandparents’ neighborhood ties and old houses — brownstones in Park Slope, row houses in Bay Ridge — in the New World. Continue Reading →
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The Brooklyn Bugle presents Heather Quinlan's If These Knishes Could Talk (work in progress) screening at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema on February 9.
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Open Thread Wednesday 1/25/12
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Baluchi’s Indian Restaurant Cooking On Henry Street
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Lost and Found: Have You Seen this Shoe?
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Update on Billboard: “Not Illegal” says TA
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