The first Brooklyn Rotary Club in nearly 20 years has sprung up in Brooklyn Heights. (Or Downtown Brooklyn, however you slice it.) The Brooklyn Paper Rotary Club — the service-oriented, weekly meeting groups that pepper the prairie and warm the heartland — just started a chapter for Brooklyn Heights, and the group’s president, Vivian Hardison, […]
About Heather Quinlan
Author Archive | Heather Quinlan
Oscars: What’s the Over/Under?
The Academy Awards are Sunday the 27th, and seeing as we’ve lately become such a Hollywood hubbub, who better than Brooklyn Heightsers (Heightsites?) to weigh in on the nominees. So who are your faves? Will The King’s Speech clean up? Or will Black Swan plié its way to a statuette? Most importantly, what are the […]
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 2/16/11
Wallets stolen! Pocketbooks stolen! Planet Fitness! Go know, it’s this week’s blotter. Share this Story: Tweet
For One Woman, The Hunt Ends in Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is the site of this week’s “The Hunt,” a weekly real estate column in The New York Times. Former Garden City resident Anne Bauso fell in love with the neighborhood and went on a quest to find an apartment that was affordable and maybe had an amenity or two. Did she finally take […]
Himalayas on Cranberry and Hicks
Snow is being piled into a heaping mound to make way for filming next week around Cranberry and Hicks. According to the sign, the film/TV show/commercial in question is called “IDK”. I don’t know if that means it’s called IDK or the producers don’t have a name yet. Either way, the kids are loving it. […]
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 2/8/11
Thefts at Planet Fitness, New York Sports Club and the Heights Casino. It’s safer to forego exercise and read this week’s blotter. Share this Story: Tweet
Medical Offices Will Transform into Montreal Bagels
The former medical offices at Clinton St. and Atlantic Ave. will apparently soon be home to “Montreal-style” bagels. What is a Montreal-style bagel? Sacre bleu! Find out after the jump. Share this Story: Tweet
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 2/1/11
Shoes stolen, jewels stolen, and I’ll be presenting on the Brooklyn accent here tonight. It’s this week’s blotter. Share this Story: Tweet
The 250-Year-Old Ratzer Map on Video
The Brooklyn Historical Society’s recent unveiling of a 250-year-old map of New York City has garnered much hoopla over the last couple weeks. And with good reason—the map was restored from a crumbly, neglected state into a historic work of art. The map will be on display until Friday, after which it will be exhibited […]
Nabe Chatter