Brooklyn Bridge Rehab Update: No Lane Closings This Weekend

by Claude Scales on 02. Sep, 2010 in News, Transportation

This in from the folks at Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation:

Over the upcoming long weekend, the Brooklyn Bridge will not be closed to Manhattan-bound traffic, or operating Brooklyn-bound detours between the hours of 6 am on Friday, September 3 through to 11 pm on Tuesday, September 7.

In addition, a special construction embargo is in effect for the 9/11 ceremony. All non-emergency work on the Brooklyn Bridge and all approach roadway lane closures is suspended from 3 pm on Friday, September 10 through to 11:59 pm on Saturday, September 11, 2010. (more…)

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Atlantic Tunnel’s Bob Diamond Shipping Out

by Heather Quinlan on 02. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

Photo via mcbrooklyn

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…)

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Paul Giamatti is Busy with Barney, Clooney and 30 Rock Appearance

by Homer Fink on 02. Sep, 2010 in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

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…)

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School’s Back in Session or Copy Editing Gone Very Wrong

by Homer Fink on 02. Sep, 2010 in Miscellany

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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BBC Covers Heather’s Knishes

by Homer Fink on 02. Sep, 2010 in Arts and Entertainment

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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.

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Newsweek Writer with Brooklyn Heights Connection Ponders Downtown Mosque

by Homer Fink on 02. Sep, 2010 in News

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.

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Brooklyn Heights People: Doug Biviano

by Julie Kanfer on 01. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights, Election 10, Government

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…)

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Cop Who Denied CPR to Asthmatic Girl is from the 84th Precinct

by Homer Fink on 01. Sep, 2010 in Cobble Hill, News

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…)

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Open Thread Wednesday 9/1/10

by Homer Fink on 01. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

Flickr photo by jessekalim

It’s September already!  Comment away!!

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 8/31/10

by Heather Quinlan on 31. Aug, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

bugleblotter-300x1711 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.

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