Brooklyn Heights Cinema’s Kenn Lowy has set up an Indiegogo campaign to help save the theater. No, it’s not to buy the building, it’s to help the theater convert from 35mm film projection to digital. “If we don’t make the transition to digital,” Lowy warns, “we lose the opportunity to show some exciting films. In […]
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BHB’s Heather Quinlan Is Casting for O Captain! My Captain! Video
Calling all Yankee fans (and as a Met fan I know there are many, many of you) — I am filming a short to go along with Derek Jeter’s retirement, and am looking for people to recite a line from Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” Are you up for it? Message me here. […]
Stuff-a-Sack Winter Clearance Sale on Sunday
The Underground Thrift Store at Plymouth Church (65 Hicks St) is having its semi-annual Stuff-a-Sack winter clearance sale this Sunday from 12:30-4 p.m. $25 gets you a bag to stuff with as much winter inventory as you can fit. And 25% of the profits fund organizations that fight human trafficking—last year the store donated $4,000 […]
A Tree Dies in Brooklyn
A truck took out a tree on Henry Street today. No people were injured, but the poor tree was not so lucky. From the photo you can see where contact was made on the upper right-hand corner of the truck and the side mirror. Share this Story: Tweet
Brooklyn Heights Pad Profiled in Apartment Therapy
Jessie and Jon are two crazy kids who found their way to Brooklyn Heights and turned a 710-square foot apartment into a space worthy of an Apartment Therapy House Tour. Have a look at the slideshow—I have to hand it to them, the space really does look a lot bigger than I would’ve thought. Maybe […]
Townhouses to Come to 295 Hicks Street
Per The Real Deal, the owners of 295 Hicks St are planning to build “three single-family, four-story townhouses [that] will rise at what is currently a parking lot.” That took me a minute to figure out, but then again I’ve never been good at math. The property previously belonged to the Diocese of Brooklyn until December 2011, […]
Brooklyn Bread Express Comes to Clark St Station
Brooklyn Bread Express has finally lifted its shutters at the Clark St station, taking over the space formerly occupied by NYC Sliders (and before that Fresh Café Bar). For a small space, this offshoot of the Carroll Gardens eatery offers a wide selection of bagels, from your everything to your whole wheat everything to chocolate […]
New Proposals on the Table Regarding LICH’S Future
Crain’s New York Business reports that LICH’s future may rest on one of four proposals currently under review. 1) Fortis Property Group proposes a mix of medical and residential, with an emergency room and medical services alongside condo and apartment buildings, 25% of whose which would be classified as “affordable.” 2) According to Crains, “Developer […]
Heights-Based Jeweler Saves Valentine’s Day
If you want to give your sweetie more than Godiva chocolates this Valentine’s Day but don’t know where to turn, a great jewelry line from Salt + Stone—created by a designer who perfected her craft at Tiffany’s—will have you feeling the love. Just in time for Feb. 14th, Jacqueline Stone has created an affordable collection […]
Is A Second Hotel Coming To Montague Street?
Word on the street is that the Treeline Cos-owned building at 189 Montague St may be torn down and rebuilt as a hotel. As the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports: For one thing, tenants’ leases aren’t being renewed at 189 Montague, one source said. For another, at 146 Pierrepont St., a small apartment house located next […]
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