If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t seen Paul Giamatti around Brooklyn Heights recently it may be because he’s pretty darn busy! (more…)
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School’s Back in Session or Copy Editing Gone Very Wrong
BHB reader “Rich” sends us this photo of a very special rearrangement of Cutting Den’s sign at the Clark Street station. Guess the students are back and school’s back in session!
BBC Covers Heather’s Knishes
BBC photo
Brooklyn Heights resident/BHB contributor Heather Quinlan gets some more press attention this week for her NY accent movie If These Knishes Could Talk, this time from the BBC:
BBC: For the last year-and-a-half, Quinlan, a native New Yorker and film-maker, has followed the same routine for her first documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk.
The film, part comedic banter and part serious discussion, will not only bring a taste of the NY accent to audiences, but also examine how it’s changed as the city has changed.
“I have one grandfather who was a speech teacher and another grandfather who was a truck driver, and both are New Yorkers. And I feel like this film kind of bridges the gap between those two worlds a little bit,” Quinlan explains.
Newsweek Writer with Brooklyn Heights Connection Ponders Downtown Mosque
Newsweek writer Ben Adler discusses the controversy surrounding the planned mosque near Ground Zero and mentions the influence of churches in his native Park Slope and near St. Ann’s where he went to school:
Newsweek: Perhaps my favorite is Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, its unadorned, modest New England Congregationalist architecture a striking, peaceful counterpoint to the Victorian grandeur of its surrounding neighborhood. Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.
And then there is St. Ann’s, the Episcopal congregation that incubated my progressive high school, and still lends its large and riveting, if somewhat worn-out, space to the school for major events. There, in the pews, under the stained-glass windows, were the sources of some of my fondest and most poignant memories of high school: a teacher leading us all in an acoustic rendition of The Wall by Pink Floyd at the annual Christmas assembly, a recent memorial service for a social-studies teacher who mentored me.
Cop Who Denied CPR to Asthmatic Girl is from the 84th Precinct
Today we learn that the scoundrel who smirked, “I don’t do CPR” as 11 year old Briana Ojeda lay dying of an asthma attack Sunday in Cobble Hill, has been identified as NYPD officer Alfonso Mendez from our very own 84th Precinct. He has been suspended and faces termination: (more…)
Open Thread Wednesday 9/1/10
Flickr photo by jessekalim
It’s September already! Comment away!!
Happy 5th Birthday, Self-Absorbed Boomer
Flatbush Gardener photo
BHB contributor Claude Scales is celebrating 5 years of his own blog Self Absorbed Boomer today. Claude’s been an essential cog in the BHB machinery and if you haven’t read his personal take on things Brooklyn and beyond now is a good time to check out SAB.
Back to School Open Thread
It’s almost back to school time — discuss your kid’s school, your favorite teachers etc below.
Freegans at Perelandra – Brilliant Conservationists or Dirty Hippies?
In a Gothamist post linking to the NY Times coverage of the Williamsburg freegans today, one commenter mentions the group of freegans who rummage through the trash at Perelandra every night:
There’s a group that goes to Perelandra on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights every night and goes through their garbage looking for food. It seems that Perelandra being aware of this packs it up in boxes specifically for them and places it in the street. I’ve seen them picking out some good looking stuff but there’s no way I would do it.
So, have you seen them recently? Do they bug you, man? Think they’re saving the world?
Video Premiere (Sorta): MGMT’s “Congratulations”
Brooklyn Heights resident/ rock star Andrew Vanwyngarden’s MGMT dropped (as we believe is the vernacular) their latest video this week. It’s weird. Really weird. It’s like Dune on shrooms while watching Fraggle Rock after robotripping.
Watch it and read what Spin has to say after the jump. (more…)
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