Open Thread Wednesday

By Claude Scales on January 19, 2022 12:04 am in open thread

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Open Thread Wednesday 1/19/2022

Court Street Regal Cinema Movie Theater CLOSED

Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

CassieVonMontague
Brooklyn Heights in 1848 as imagined in the 1988 adventure game Gold Rush
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c8cb4d5e4ea1b82ff3a64e657857020a611fe92df649db6c9e706bd5b6ab3fa7.png
MaggieO
Ha! That sure looks like it’s based on the promenade…
CassieVonMontague
Someone did some research. Note Penny Bridge, albeit crossing over water instead of Montague St. There’s also a building that looks like 1 Front Street at 2:40 in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHvqAr__qk
http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn
Pretty sure this scene in Superman (1978) shows Superman circling over Brooklyn Heights to rescue a cat from a tree on Columbia Heights. Note the hilarious difference in parenting styles then vs. now when the girl reports to her parents what happened.
https://youtu.be/6Ykt4GD7jtQ?t=216
Jorale-man
Ha! And clearly a Hollywood set for the BH streetscape.
http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn
Added a few dog droppings and Juul cartridges for authenticity I’m sure
Andrew Porter
Image from a few days ago, on Channel 7, of BH from a camera on 140 Cadman Plaza West. Froze the image on my TV, then shot it with my digital camera, cropped, and, voila!:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/93dbdeab0a0a8140e7b616fdf2764275fa34d31a814f36a0b2010041e186462a.jpg
Aliza
Speaking of video games, here’s one created by a Heights resident set at the (famous?) 58 Joralemon subway vent house. https://58joralemon.vercel.app/
Sound effects are recorded from a very creaky, leaky Brooklyn Heights heater. More on 58 Joralemon here.
AEB
Seen this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/nyregion/brooklyn-court-street-regal-cinema-closes.html
CassieVonMontague
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Aliza
Hurray! You solved it!
Effective Presenter
Wow! GREAT picture.