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About Homer Fink
The moniker is the “nom de blog” of Brooklyn Bugle Media founder John Loscalzo, who took it from a novel he read while growing up in Queens, NY. It was called, naturally, The Adventures of Homer Fink by Sidney Offit. “Loscalzo” may be familiar to those who grew up during the “alternative rock” era. He spent most of the 80s and 90s on great radio stations like WNYU, WPDH, WRCN, WDRE and WXRK (K-Rock) in New York as well as KROQ in Los Angeles. Loscalzo has also held executive positions at Billboard Magazine, Sony, CBS-TV and MTV. Loscalzo and the staff of Brooklyn Heights Blog were recognized by the Brooklyn Heights Association with a Community Service Award in 2011.
Lost and Found: Have You Seen this Shoe?
BHB reader “Jane” writes to us that her baby threw a shoe out of her stroller somewhere around Montague Street and Henry Tuesday afternoon. Considering our record of reuniting the lost and their owners we figured we’d give it a try. If you found the companion to the shoe pictured below email us (webmaster at brooklynheightsblog.com). We’ll give the finder a nice BHB prize package.
Update:As “Jane” comments below the shoe has been found and reunited with it’s other half and “Crazy Baby”! Continue Reading →
Source: Plans for 70 Henry Street Withdrawn from LPC Hearing
According to a BHB source the landlord of 70 Henry Street, Tom Caruana, has withdrawn his proposal for a new structure at 70 Henry St. to Community Board 2’s Landmarks Committee. The building currently is the home of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, which would be displaced if the plan were to move forward.
No word yet on if this is simply a postponement or a permanent shift in plans.
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New Neighbor Open Thread – 1/14/12
We do these from time to time – a thread for new arrivals and those thinking about moving to Brooklyn Heights.
So ask away newbies!
And if you’re interested in the great history of the area, watch our humble publisher walk through highlights of his Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking tour as well as Heights Hero Martin L. Schneider and Karl Junkersfeld’s Battling for Brooklyn Heights.
Inventive Christmas Tree Disposal in Brooklyn Heights
A BHB reader sent us this comment and photo:
It’s interesting that someone mentioned on the open thread last week that our hood could use a Xmas tree composting station. I was going to suggest that the dead end at Middagh St. would be a good open space to set it up. Well, apparently the neighbors have agreed to xmas tree disposal here as well, but this was not exactly what i was thinking!
Rocco, We Hardly Knew Ye – Pet Store’s Namesake Pooch Dies
This news from the folks at Rocco and Jezebel [89 Pineapple Walk]:
Rocco
June 12, 2004 – January 5, 2012
We announce with heartfelt regret that Rocco of Rocco and Jezebel For Pets
lost his fight with bone cancer on January 5, 2012. Continue Reading →
“Burglary! Burglary”: Henry Street Sign Begs for Alarm to be Shut Off
Mrs. Fink snapped this photo of a sign on Henry Street near Clark requesting that someone “fix or disconnect” their “alarm system” as it is “violating the peace and quiet of the neighborhood continuously.” No word on if this is a store, home or car alarm in question.
Save the Date: February 9 for a Preview of Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Movie
The Brooklyn Bugle/Brooklyn Heights Blog is pleased to announce that we’ll be presenting a special preview of BHB contributor/filmmaker Heather Quinlan’s If These Knishes Could Talk on February 9 at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema (buy tickets). Continue Reading →
How a Brooklyn Heights Kid Discovered The Who #Backintheday
Homer’s pal/Brooklyn Heights native/The Who’s #1 fan Binky Phillips writes in his HuffPo column today about how he discovered his favorite band while growing up in here in the 60s: Continue Reading →
NY Daily News on the Neighbors of Brooklyn Heights’ Mysterious Secret Brownstone
The New York Daily News profiles the folks who live next door to 58 Joralemon Street aka the world’s only Greek Revival subway vent.: Continue Reading →
The Metrosexual Lives: Area Man Lurves His Skin Products
Its seems like only yesterday that the Bravo TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy amped up the era of the “metrosexual.” Holy cripes that was some cutting edge stuff, what with the guys using “product” and “manscaping” and stuff. But then the show sorta went off the rails of the crazy train and lost it’s zhoohz. So just like a hi-top fade you’d think the whole metrosexual thing had run its course. Yeah, no.
Enter this piece, featuring a Brooklyn Heights man, from the New York Times: Continue Reading →
NYT on Brooklyn Heights, the Novel
The New York Times chats with Miral al-Tahawy about her book Brooklyn Heights: A Modern Arabic Novel
NYT: The central character in the book, “Brooklyn Heights,” is a single mother named Hend. She has one son and struggles with loneliness, exhaustion and depression. The award-winning book, recently released in English, weaves together a life in Brooklyn with a childhood in provincial Egypt.
The book was shortlisted for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, also known as the Arabic Booker Prize. It also won the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
“The writing was split between two worlds,” Ms. al-Tahawy, 43, explained last month, “the world I was coming from and which had become very sharp in my memory, and the place where I am living, with its contradiction and contract, variations and harmony.”
Krogius to BHA: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Brooklyn Heights resident/writer/historian Henrik Krogius has a thinkpiece in the Brooklyn Eagle this week discussing the Brooklyn Heights Association and the battles it has fought throughout its history. He mentions David Walentas’ quote in last Sunday’s New York Times piece about his son Jed asserting that if it had been up to the BHA, “there would be no DUMBO.” He wonders how the BHA will navigate through the new and evolving “cool” Brooklyn in the years ahead. Continue Reading →
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- Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson
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- Transit Museum Plans Day for Special Needs Kids January 22
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- Community Building and Book Sharing with Little Free Libraries
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Movie Preview
The Brooklyn Bugle presents Heather Quinlan's If These Knishes Could Talk (work in progress) screening at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema on February 9.
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Open Thread Wednesday 1/25/12
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What A Novel Idea: New Nail Salon Coming To 93 Montague Street
- Will Someone Buy the Heights Cinema Building to Preserve It?
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Baluchi’s Indian Restaurant Cooking On Henry Street
- Talent Agency Wants Your Cute Brooklyn Heights Kid To Model
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Lost and Found: Have You Seen this Shoe?
- Here’s What Happened To Shuttered Heights Veterinary Hospital…
- 75 Clinton Street Nixes Condo Sales; Goes After “Booming” Rental Market
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Big “Mews”: 9 College Place 25% Sold
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The First Coat Is The Deepest: 2012′s Debut Snowfall
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