Open Thread Wednesday

By on February 27, 2024 11:16 pm in open thread

What’s on your mind? Comment away!

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  • Banet

    Having not heard anything about the Bossert auction, I emailed Lincoln Restler’s office. I received the following reply:

    “CM Restler has reached out to Joseph Chetrit of the Chetrit Group for updates on the auction and is awaiting updates. We will update you when we hear more from him.”

    …stay tuned! (And if anyone here knows anything, speak up!

  • Nomcebo Manzini

    Noon on Wed., … and one comment. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t judge – and the commenter DEFINITELY appears to have the community’s interests (need to know) at heart (with both this post & others), … but if ever there was “non-news,” this appears to qualify.

    I’ve written more than my share (ok, way more!) over the years, and/but I’m more than a little sad that what once was and certainly might continue to be a VIBRANT community resource … appears to be under-performing.

    I’ve heard that “you can’t push a string,” so I’ll stop wringing my hands after another paragraph or 2, but I have to note that 2 new “contributors” were announced within the last 2-4 months. One came through with 2 GREAT READS; the other is presumably still at work on his first.

    What’s a community to do? I’m definitely not of the “Let Claude do it” persuasion. Heaven knows, we truly have HIM to thank for “keeping the lights on,” but is there nothing the rest of us can do about the “sound” that Ross Perot made famous way back when??

    I see dozens of “new moms & dads” on nice weekends just on Montague St. I’ll bet some of them have written for a living and could find an hour or 2 PER MONTH to exercise that skill. We have a lovely new bookstore, thousands of newish residents with many more coming soon. Other blogs similar to this one are thriving. In a word, I’m baffled.

  • JaneonOrange

    Happy to post a question: Anyone know why some lamp posts in the neighborhood were removed and replaced?

  • gc

    Thanks for the wonderful sunset photo!
    It’s one of the best I’ve seen in my 48 years in the Heights.
    Lots of people on the Promenade stopping and enjoying
    the beautiful view!

  • Bk rez

    No idea, but the new bulbs suck. And the out of lights seem like overkill

  • winchell’s cavanaugh

    Has anyone else gone to Saketumi on Montague and experienced parents using it like a Chuck E Cheese? Yes I am Karen’ing but this is a nice neighborhood place where children should not be screaming, shouting, playing on the floor, throwing food on the floor. I do not mean children crying due to distress, I mean parents who allow their children to treat this restaurant like a playground. To compound the Karen’ing – when my parents took me to Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight restaurant or anywhere else that behavior would never ever be tolerated. Karen out.

  • Effective Presenter

    We agree a great photo of the sunset from the Promenade.

  • Effective Presenter

    We agree restaurants for families like TGIF, Fridays, Applebee’s, Olive Garden, kids are expected to behave like kids.

    On more than a few occasions here in Brooklyn Heights at upscale places like Heights Cafe ,etc we have seen parents order drink after drink as a few kids go wild on roller blades, etc., annoying adults who are trying to have a conversation, eat dinner.

  • BHeightsChad

    Young people don’t read blogs, they use social media. The BHB Instagram account is a great addition and could be linked back to posts here, but there needs to be a better strategy for managing that account and increasing engagement.

    You have to meet the people where they’re at!

  • A Neighbor

    The city announced a few weeks ago that it was installing more street lights for safety at night. Walking on Joralemon after dark is dangerous – in most places it is so dark you can’t see the sidewalk. And one of the intersection lights at Hicks and Joralemon was out for a long time, making it difficult to see on Hicks.. That has been fixed. Big improvement – unless it shines in your bedroom window as well.

  • Andrew Porter

    I noticed recently that a long stretch of Henry Street from Clark south to Love Lane is extremely dark at night, and that a light on the east side of the street is in process of being replaced.

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  • Jorale-man

    I’d regularly use my phone flashlight when walking down parts of Joralemon St. at night. I don’t want to step in something (especially when some neighbors don’t clean their sidewalks as they should)!

  • B.

    “. . . kids are expected to behave like kids.”

    Haha! Over 65 years ago when my parents took me to a restaurant, no matter what sort of restaurant, I was seated on a couple of telephone books stacked on a chair, given a piece of paper and a crayon, and told to stay put; and I did. That’s how toddlers were expected to behave no matter what “eatery” we found ourselves in.

    Running around was for playgrounds and, within reason, our own homes.

  • MaggieO

    My husband tells me that the union rat is hanging out by the old St. Francis building on Joralemon today. I had thought he was retired, seems I was wrong!

  • Red Leader

    I’ve been in the neighborhood 22 years. I’ve never seen that happen.

  • winchell’s cavanaugh

    That’s fortunate for you.

  • Banet

    I’ve been here 25 years and don’t recall ever seeing misbehaving kids in a restaurant.

  • Andrew Porter

    When “Homer Fink” suddenly died, he took all the passwords with him. Prior to his death, regular notifications about the BHB were sent out to numerous people and organizations.

    Now, unless you already know about the BHB, or come here from a link in, say, Brownstoner.com, the number of people aware of the content here just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

  • Karl Junkersfeld

    https://bronx.news12.com/nypd-4-wanted-in-brooklyn-heights-store-burglary

    Store on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn Heights robbed.

  • Nosey Neighbor

    News12 needs to differentiate between “convenience store” and smoke shop. One is a vital member of the community. The other attracts crime and burglaries. I hope the landlord of 109 Atlantic misses their old tenant, Nest Egg Kids, and understands they could be liable if they are renting to unlicensed dispensaries.

  • Karen and Chad

    Breaking news: BHA annual meeting interrupted by irrational protestors who won’t allow free speech and don’t want to hear Gillibrand’s response.

    Free speech means allowing discourse.

    Drowning out speech is not free speech.

    Free speech does not mean speech without consequence.

    Where are the police for disturbing the peace and trespassing?

  • Karen and Chad

    While not a KG fan, I do truly applaud her efforts to take questions and even offer to stay after and talk with the protestors 1:1 if they let her continue to speak.

    It’s time to ensure that civics are reinstated as part of education.

  • Barbara Moskowitz

    I was listening on livestream and wondered why the police were not called in; it was so unfair to all those who came out – as well as disrepectful to the senator (I am not a fan but no one deserves that!)l