The Brooklyn Heights Association is asking the community to help out the victims of the fire that devastated 132 Montague Street: The BHA has been in touch with the Red Cross and we have determined that two of the apartments were occupied at the time of the fire. We know that our wonderful community wants […]
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State Senator Kavanagh Virtual Townhall Today — Don’t Miss It!
NY State Senator for Brooklyn Heights (and other nabes in District 26) Brian Kavanagh will be holding a virtual townhall meeting via Zoom tonight, Monday, December 13th, from 7pm to 8:30pm. This virtual meeting is exclusively for his Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Vinegar Hill, Columbia Waterfront, Fulton Ferry, and DUMBO constituents. You can RSVP […]
Grace Chorale Holiday Concert This Sunday At St. Ann’s Church
If you’re feeling suitably festive this weekend, or would like to get in the mood, the Grace Chorale of Brooklyn will be putting on a holiday concert live and in person at St. Ann and Holy Trinity Church, this Sunday, December 12th, at 3pm. Special guests include Mimi and the Podd Brothers, “JChris” Chris Urquiaga, […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights And Nearby
Note: This week, we’re filling in for Claude, who is on special assignment, posing as a promising young squash player to uncover an illicit bitcoin-for-Argyle socks scheme at the Heights Casino. Wait, did we just blow his cover? Sorry, Claude! This is a brief summary of this weekend’s subway service alerts that we think most […]
4 Alarm Fire at 132 Montague Street (Updated With Pictures)
We’re hearing (and seeing the smoke!) of a big fire at 132 Montague Street. We will post more info when we get it. UPDATE: Reports are that it is now a four alarm at 132 Montague St. where Heights Vision is located. All people got out safely. Heavy smoke seems to be drifting north to […]
The Mystery Noise Of Pineapple Walk — Solved!
If you had been hearing a mysterious, annoying, “high pitched zee-zee-zee-zee” sound in the vicinity of Pineapple Walk, Henry Street, and Cadman Towers, and thought “hey, that’s almost as loud as the helicopters”, Mary Frost revealed the culprit yesterday in The Brooklyn Eagle, in a page-turning (finger-scrolling?) article we’re sure will be optioned by Netflix […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Note: This week, Claude is taking a break from deciphering the MTA’s weekend service changes (so you don’t have to), so we’re deciphering them (so Claude doesn’t have to (so you don’t have to)) This is a brief summary of this weekend’s subway service alerts that we think most directly affect the neighborhood. It is […]
The “Mystery of Montague Street” Featured on Curbed
Curbed published an interesting article on “The Mystery of Montague Street” — why does it suck? There are the usual reasons given — business owners blame the high rent, landlords blame the high taxes, the BHA and the Montague BID don’t want to blame anyone. Incoming city council member (and neighborhood son!) Lincoln Restler puts […]
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