This weekend — late evening Friday, April 12 to early morning Monday, April 15 — the only service at Court Street or at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech, will be Brooklyn bound, as Manhattan bound N (late night) and R (daytime) trains will be re-routed to the Q line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal […]
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Heights resident since 1983. Lawyer, with strong interests in history, philosophy, literature, music, architecture, astronomy, paleontology, ships and the sea, railroads, baseball, food and wine. Married, with one child.Author Archive | Claude Scales
City Council Hearing on Unnecessary Helicopter Flights Next Tuesday
Stop the Chop NY/NJ advises us that on Tuesday, April 16 starting at 10:00 AM the New York City Council will hold a hearing on proposed legislation that would ban unnecessary (tourist and charter) helicopter flights, including all such flights to or from the Downtown Heliport directly accross the East River from Brooklyn Heights, and […]
Theater 2020 Presents Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music”
Theater 2020, the award winning professional stage company under the joint artistic direction of Brooklyn Heights residents Judith Jarosz and David Fuller, will present Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (see cast photo, courtesy Theater 2020) for a short run from Thursday, April 18 through May 12 (16 performances only) at the Mark O’Donnell Theater, […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — Late Friday evening, April 5 to early Monday morning, April 8 — there will be no 4 train service to or from Brooklyn and, since 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn on weekends, no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall. 2, 3, A, C, N, and R trains should be […]
Upcoming BQE Lane Closures For Rehab Work
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that the Queens bound lanes of the Brookyn-Queens Expressway will be closed between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street from early morning Saturday, April 13 to early morning Monday, April 15 to accommodate repair work. During that weekend expect much more traffic on our principal southbound thoroughfare, […]
Brooklyn Heights Library Hosts Teen Eclipse Watch in Cadman Plaza Park
This coming Monday afternoon, April 8, Brooklyn will be under an almost total solar eclipse (see photo). The Brooklyn Heights Library will host an eclipse watch gathering for teens in the Juneteenth Grove of Cadman Plaza Park, at Cadman Plaza West and Tillary Street. Participants will be given free eclipse viewing glasses. The viewing event […]
Jeremy Lechtzin New Brooklyn Heights Association President
The Brooklyn Heights Association has announced that Jeremy Lechtzin is the new President of its Board of Governors. His President’s Message is here. According to the BHA: He is an architectural historian and technology lawyer. Jeremy focuses his history work on early Brooklyn, currently writing a data-driven analysis of every house built in Brooklyn Heights […]
Mint Heights Closed by Health Department
Restaurants along Henry Street have been getting attention from the Health Department’s inspectors. In February they shut down Kogane Ramen. The latest to fail inspection is Mint Heights, at 46 Henry; sadly, a longtime favorite of my wife’s (she loves their Butter Chicken) and mine for Indian cuisine. The bill of particulars is here. Thanks […]
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