The green construction barrier at the 27 Cranberry Street worksite has fallen down, creating a hazard on the street. Mrs. Fink snapped these photos around 12:30 PM Sunday (2/15). The foundation and construction area are now visible from the street, not to mention the unsafe condition created by this breach. Developer Louis Greco bought the […]
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.Author Archive | Homer Fink
Five Books About Brooklyn Heights You Should Be Reading Right Now
Anyone who loves Brooklyn Heights and wants to know more about its history, should consider these five books as a quick primer on the neighborhood. Long time residents/readers of BHB may already be familiar with these titles – at least two are written by friends of the site – and are welcome to share their […]
Fans of My Little Pony Converge for PonyCon 2015 in Brooklyn Heights
So what’s going on at PonyCon 2015 at St. Francis College this weekend? Welp, fans of the TV show My Little Pony are getting their freak on …. errr sumthin’. The Tale of the Tweets after the jump.
Here’s a UPS Fail in Brooklyn Heights – Has This Happened to You?
Imagine my surprise when I came home today to see a UPS package for Mrs. Fink thrown in with some garbage. Well, that’s messed up, eh? Even more messed up is that the UPS delivery person MEANT to do that.
Check it out:
Alternate Side Parking Returns and Everybody’s Mad
After about a week long hiatus, New York City reinstated alternate side parking rules today and city residents took to Twitter to air their frustration. Heck, we just knocked the bumper off the BHBMobile getting out of a space on Orange Street (good thing Joke and the gang at New Xcell are already on the case). All for what? So the city could write some parking tickets? Because, y’know we didn’t see any street cleaning happening. So who should we send the repair bill to?
Enjoy these angry tweets and feel free to add your two cents in the comments:
The Bronies Are Coming to Brooklyn Heights for a My Little Pony Convention
Bronies, adult male followers of the children’s show “My Little Pony” are set to converge with other fans of the show at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights for three days starting Saturday (2/14). PonyCon 2015 will feature the premiere of the trailer for the show’s fifth season as well as many guests including Andrea […]
Novelist Yvonne Cassidy’s Ode to Montague Street’s Connecticut Muffin
Yvonne Cassidy is Irish novelist living in New York City.
She tells us, “While I live on the Upper West Side, I love Brooklyn Heights and spend a couple of days a week there, working on my latest novel (part of which is set in Brooklyn Heights.) Yesterday, I was devastated to find out that my absolute favorite writing spot – Connecticut Muffin – has closed down and I wrote a blog post about it.”
The Low House in Brooklyn Heights is on the Block for $40 Million
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Seth Low House at 3 Pierrepont Place is up for sale. The record setting asking price – $40 million dollars. As for the history of that home Seth Low II, who served as mayor of Brooklyn from 1881-1885 and later mayor of New York City, grew up there. […]
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