The consummate photograph that newspapers around the world are using to illustrate Lower Manhattan’s Monday night blackout from Hurricane Sandy—not surprisingly—was taken from our Brooklyn Heights Promenade. New York-based Associated Press photojournalist Bebeto Matthews took the pic, which has appeared in papers across the U.S., as well as New Zealand, Norway, France, Wales, Saudi Arabia, […]
About Chuck Taylor
Journalist Chuck Taylor worked as a writer and Senior Editor at Billboard magazine for 14 years, has interviewed more than 500 entertainers and music executives, and penned front-page stories for Billboard about Celine Dion, Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, Elton John, Bette Midler, James Taylor, Tony Bennett and many more. He has been interviewed on an array of music and pop culture topics for ABC's “20/20,” “CBS Evening News,” CNN FN, VH1's “Behind the Music,” MTV, BBC and A&E's Biography"; and has been quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, TV Guide, People, Entertainment Weekly and numerous others. He is a voting member of NARAS (Grammy Awards).Author Archive | Chuck Taylor
Brooklyn Heights Cinema Offers Reprieve From Superstorm
The Brooklyn Heights Cinema continues to provide refuge from the storm, as owner Kenn Lowy discusses in a profile in today’s New York Observer. He tells the newspaper, “We all live in the area, I’m 10 minutes away, so why not.” Lowy says he wasn’t about to let Hurricane Sandy shut him down: “We were […]
Darkness On The Edge Of Town: Lower Manhattan At Dusk Tuesday
What a spooky spectacle… There’s not a light to be found across Manhattan, in this panoramic shot taken just before 6 p.m. Tuesday from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (see full-size view here). Below, a closer image focused on Lower Manhattan. ConEd reports 780,000 customers are without service, including 250,000 in Manhattan and 87,000 in Brooklyn. […]
Read It Here: Post Superstorm Sandy News Impacting Brooklyn Heights…
As BHB continues to dig for post-storm news, we’ll update coverage here that impacts or discusses Brooklyn Heights… * 8:30 PM: West Village Halloween Parade postponed for the first time in 39 years. Bloomberg says it may be rescheduled next week… Hurricane Sandy deemed fifth most-costly in U.S. history. Could cost $5B-$10B in insured losses […]
Tuesday: Brooklyn Heights Promenade Is The Place To Be
You’d think it was the first day of spring after a long winter’s haul. Late Tuesday morning, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was swarming with onlookers, checking out the after-effects of Superstorm Sandy, while peering for signs of life on the other side, where Lower Manhattan remains without power for what may be days. While it […]
Notice From Montague Street BID: Clean-Up
The Montague Street BID shares sanitation collection info with Brooklyn Heights’ residents & businesses: “DSNY will be on 12-hour split shifts, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday. We will be picking up refuse and recycling, but encourage citizens to put waste out Tuesday morning to prevent cans blowing in the wind. Crews will also be […]
Montague Street: We Made It Through The Rain
A walk along Montague Street from end to end around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning revealed no broken windows or fallen limbs. The worst damage was a busted lighted sign at TD Bank at the corner of Court Street; and a large overturned planter in front of Teresa’s. All along the corridor, newspaper boxes were tossed […]
Fallen Limb Blocking Hotel St. George 2/3 Subway Entrance
A formidable tree limb is down right in front of the 2/3 entrance at the Hotel St. George on Clark Street, as well as some other fairly significant broken limbs along Clark to the Promenade. In addition, a fallen limb is blocking the Remsen Street Promenade entrance. CBS 2 is reporting that winds reached 65 […]
Eerie Scene: Much Of Lower Manhattan In The Dark Tuesday Morning
An explosion at a Con Edison substation before 9 p.m. Monday has left much of lower Manhattan in the dark and knocked out power to about 310,000 customers. Here’s the eerie scene from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade at 6 a.m. Tuesday, where among the only lights surrounding the Wall Street horizon come from the WTC […]
Cops Close Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Late Monday afternoon, cops ribboned off entrances to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with yellow tape… which promptly blew away. By 5, two strands replaced it, imprinted with “Police Line: Do Not Cross.” That wasn’t enough to stop a fairly constant flow of folks taking a peek at the East River below (as we see in […]
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