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.

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Open Thread Wednesday 2/4/15

What’s on your mind? Comment away! Share this Story: Tweet

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Looks Like Something Big and Fugly is Coming to Remsen Street

Pro-development website YIMBY reports that designs for 153 Remsen Street are in – and boy are they…interesting.

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Is Hillary Clinton Setting Up Shop in Brooklyn Heights?

Will Hillary’s campaign headquarters land here in Brooklyn Heights?

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Resident Raises Concern About Cracked Sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights

A BHB tipster alerts us that the sidewalk in front of 92 Remsen Street is – and has been for a while – a hazard.

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A Lot of Action on Montague Street: Friend of a Farmer Building, Connecticut Muffin Closes

Friend of a Farmer is building while Connecticut Muffin says goodbye.

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DOB Issues Partial Stop Work Order on Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pierhouse

According to sources familiar with the situation, the NYC Department of Buildings has issued a partial stop work order regarding construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pierhouse. This SWO applies to the second portion of the building that has recently begun construction and not the first portion which topped out earlier this month. The request was […]

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Open Thread Wednesday 1/28/15

What’s on your mind? Comment away! Photo: Ken Rutledge via Facebook Share this Story: Tweet

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Here Are Some Photos of the Not So Historic Snowfall in Brooklyn Heights

Gentle hippies will say “we dodged a bullet” while conspiracy theorists will blame the Illuminati or Hillary Clinton – but the Snowmageddon 2015 that was predicted for our area wasn’t all that huge. Here’s some photos:

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Here’s a Passage from that New York Times Piece on the Pierhouse

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a story about Save the View Now, the Brooklyn Heights based group seeking to curb the height of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pierhouse. The article mentions the 2005 agreement that Otis Pratt Pearsall struck with park officials regarding the building’s height: NYT: The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, which […]

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New York Times Looks at the Brooklyn Heights Library Plan

The New York Times published a look at the Brooklyn Heights library proposal this weekend:

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