Starting today, there will be food service on the East River ferries that connect Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, making a stop at Fulton Ferry Landing at the foot of Old Fulton Street.
DNAinfo.com: Beginning Monday morning, passengers will be treated to a new menu of locally-produced goodies, including cupcakes from Butter Lane Cupcakes, retro-style u-bet egg creams in chocolate and vanilla, and hot and iced coffees from the Brooklyn Roasting Company. Continue Reading →
This past Wednesday your correspondent took his customary walk around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and got this photo of Rosa rugosa in bloom again. With luck, they’ll be around through November. As reader Stuart noted in a comment then: “[T]he rugosas are tough as nails. They can take anything, even salt. [T]he rose hips they produce are the ones used in pharmacology.”
Notify NYC sez: “Multiple street closures will be in effect throughout Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights tomorrow, Sunday, 4/29/12, from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM, in support of Walk MS.” More details on the event are here. According to the route map the walk begins at the South Street Seaport, circles around a small part of downtown Manhattan, proceeds across the Brooklyn Bridge to Adams Street, then takes Tillary Street to Cadman Plaza West. It goes south on CPW to Montague, crosses all of Montague to the Promenade, goes north on the Promenade to Columbia Heights, then down Squibb Hill to Old Fulton, and back to the Brooklyn Bridge. No exact time is given for the closure of any streets.
Channel 7, ABC Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg visited Colonie, talked with some diners and with sous-chef Bryan Redmond, and watched him prepare a carrot salad. Video after the jump. Continue Reading →
The overflight of New York City by the space shuttle Enterprise mounted on its 747 carrier, originally scheduled for this past Monday but postponed by weather, has been re-scheduled for tomorrow (Friday, April 27) between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., again weather permitting.
They will fly at low altitudes around the Statue of Liberty and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, accompanied by two T-38 aircraft serving as photo support, and should be easily seen from the Promenade or Brooklyn Bridge Park on the southern part of their route. Continue Reading →
Plus ça change, as our French friends say. Once again, there will be no service in either direction on the 4/5 line at Borough Hall. The 2 and 3 will be running normally in both directions there and at Clark Street, and the 3 will be extended to New Lots for the convenience of those traveling into Brooklyn. Once again, Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street and Jay Street-Metro Tech, so there will be no service from Manhattan to High Street. North Heights residents are probably better off taking the 2 or 3 to Clark. There will be no Manhattan bound R or (late night) N service at Court Street or Jay Street, but Manhattan bound Q trains will be stopping there, and you can change from the Q to the R or N at Canal Street. These diversions will be in effect from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 5:00 a.m. Monday. Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Heights Association calls to our attention two opportunities for recycling as we do our spring cleaning. There will be an e-waste recycling event the weekend after next at First Unitarian Church, Pierrepont Street between Clinton and Monroe Place. Bring your no-longer-useful electronics to the Church on Saturday, May 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 6 from noon to 2:00 p.m. A list of items that will be accepted for recycling is here. Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual House Tour (the photo was taken in one of the houses on this year’s tour) is coming soon, on Saturday, May 12. You can find more information, and buy tickets, here.
The BHA needs “house volunteers” who “are asked to take a shift, watching rooms to be sure there is no touching, no photo taking, etc.” either from 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. OR from 2:20-5:05 p.m. Volunteer bakers are also needed to make three or four dozen cookies, squares or bars and deliver them in a covered container to Plymouth Church (enter at 75 Hicks) on Friday, May 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. or Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. If you would like to be a house volunteer, bake, or both, please e-mail info@thebha.org.
Senator Squadron’s Community Convention is Sunday afternoon. MTA head Joseph Lhota will discuss transit issues, you can learn more about new plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park and there will be discussion groups on many other topics of community interest. More details & RSVP here.
Learn about local bird life Sunday morning at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Anytime you want, head to Brooklyn Bridge Park and take photos (see your correspondent’s contribution above) for BBP’s Bluebell photo contest. Continue Reading →
The heaps of brown stuff you may have noticed distributed along the Promenade—or as in this photo at the Montague Street entrance—are mulch to be used on the Promenade gardens. Promenade Gardener Jonanthan Landsman advises us that it will be distributed Saturday morning by a large volunteer group. Continue Reading →
This weekend it’s mostly same-old same-old, with a couple of twists. Once again, no service in either direction on the 4/5 line at Borough Hall. The 2 and 3 will be running normally in both directions there and at Clark Street, and the 3 will be extended to New Lots for the convenience of those traveling into Brooklyn. Once again, the Manhattan bound F will be diverted to the A/C line between Jay Street and West 4th, so there will be no Manhattan bound service at York Street (but more than usual at High Street). To get to East Broadway, Delancey, 2nd Avenue, or Broadway-Lafayette, take an A, C, or F to West 4th and change there for an A, C, or F back to the skipped stop. You read that right: unlike last week, Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th and Jay, so there will be no service from Manhattan to High Street. North Heights residents are probably better off taking the 2 or 3 to Clark. Service on the R and (late night) N at Court Street will be normal in both directions. Continue Reading →
State Senator Daniel Squadron will host his fourth annual Community Convention this Sunday, April 22, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., at the High School of Economics and Finance, 100 Trinity Place (one block west of Broadway, between Cedar and Thames Streets), in downtown Manhattan. The keynote speaker will be MTA chair and Brooklyn Heights resident Joseph Lhota. After the opening ceremonies and keynote speech, you’ll be invited to participate in discussion groups on issues of community concern. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP here, where you’ll also find a list of topics for discussion groups, or call 212-298-5565.
If you don’t mind some occasional inconvenience, there’s money to be made in making your habitation available for video shoots. Interested? Contact someone like Andrea Raisfeld.
New York Observer: In fact, one Brooklyn Heights townhouse that Ms. Raisfeld represents hosted shoots for Eileen Fisher, Oil of Olay, More magazine, Lucky magazine, Cetaphil, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Bali Bras, Kmart, Chico’s and Huggies.
At $1,000 to $20,000 a day (even with the 25 percent casting fee that agents generally collect) that’s enough to pay off the mortgage.
Then, again, do you really want your place to be advertising Kmart? Depends on the bucks, I suppose.
How does Karl love LPQ? Let him count the ways…. Video after the jump. Continue Reading →
I decided to take my own advice as well as test the theory L Magazine proposed, as reported here by Chuck Taylor. I had an errand to run at the Greenmarket, but I decided to go there, with camera, by a circuitous route, down the Promenade and Squibb Hill to Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, then up the hill to Middagh Street, then to Cadman Plaza Park, across to the Greenmarket, then back by way of Remsen Street. The flowering cherry tree in the photo is at the north end of the Promenade. More photos follow the jump. Continue Reading →
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