Brooklyn Heights Blog

This just in from Montague BID - the schedule for Sunday’s final Summer Space.  Get ready the Heights Players will be performing and there will be volleyball and skateboarding.

Update: 9/27 Due to rain here’s the new schedule:
It’s raining! We’re shifting some of the activities for Montague Street’s Summer Space event to the late afternoon, when it’s supposed to dry out a bit. See below for a revised schedule:

12:00 volleyball (as scheduled)
3:30 Heights Players perform excerpts from “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”
4:00 all-ages parade of decorated bikes, trikes, scooters and strollers
4:30 kids yoga from Yoga People

All-day activities (skateboarding, drawing lessons, chess, basketball, face painting, outdoor lounge, sidewalk sales, etc.) will be offered from 3 to 5.

New times are, of course, weather permitting! Look for notice boards along the street with revised information!

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For three Sundays in September, cars will be banned from Montague Street between Clinton and Hicks streets as the Summer Space program will once again turn the area into a pedestrian plaza, with outdoor seating and themed activities.

Organized by the Montague Street BID, the first week, September 13th will be focused on food, featuring discounts and samples from more than a dozen Montague Street eateries. September 20th will be dedicated to mind and body, with free outdoor yoga lessons and massages. Finally, September 27th will focus on games, with outdoor hula-hooping and free skateboard lessons. The events will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

This week’s police blotter saw an unusually high number of assaults in the area, as well as a subletter turned robber. Read more »

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NYC Parks Commish Adrian Benepe says that the shuttered Squibb Park might make a great skateboard park for tweens: Read more »

BHB/Sarah Portlock

Last night we went to the Community Board 2 monthly meeting which was, as always, chock full of interesting tidbits of information and news. We will recap the highlights for you here.

Going postal: Good news! There’s a new post office in town! The USPS will open a storefront outpost in DUMBO in the near future, to alleviate overcrowding at the busy station, said Cadman Plaza Station manager George Baez. The storefront at 85 Front St., which is between Main and Washington streets, will have an automated postal center, which are the machines that process your post via credit card and without a clerk.
As for the busy Cadman Plaza branch, Baez addressed customer service complaints and said he has hired “mystery shoppers” to evaluate the clerks and general service. He also said that the stamp machines in the lobby will not be replaced — they were outdated and broken — but the two automated postal centers, which are popular, are open 24/7. And, yes, stamp prices will go up by 2 cents on May 11. Buy the Forever stamps and they’re valid, well, forever.
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BHB has one simple rule - if you’re over 25 and your last name is NOT “Hawk” then you should not ride a skateboard.  Not that we’re prudes or fraidycats, we’re downright practical.  Anyone over 30 knows that 25 is a mere 7 years away from 32 which a friend of mine once called “the age of the random injury”.  But fear of a fractured femur won’t stop us from giving you this report from Hillel sent to the BHB Inbox: Read more »

While the Paping Soapbox Derby may no longer be allowed to roll down “Watchtower Hill”, it won’t stop “those crazy kids” from “shredding” down on their skateboards.

And oh yeah…. when we were kids we didn’t wear helmets… which explains a lot about my generation (aka Generation Ecch).