The Brooklyn Public Library has inked a deal with Simon & Schuster to make the publisher’s complete collection of electronic books available at branch libraries, in which BPL will then get a 2% cut of profits from each book sold. The money raised is being eyed as a way to help fund the more than […]
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-Based InsideClimate News Wins Pulitzer
Brooklyn Heights-based independent nonprofit news agency InsideClimate News—which focuses on climate change and energy issues, has won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The award-winning story is “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” about the “dangers of oil pipelines.” InsideClimate News is based at 16 Court Street, across from […]
Blossoming Pear Trees Cast Decorative White Canopy Over Montague Street
The pear trees have blossomed along Montague Street, providing Brooklyn Heights’ primary business boulevard with a beautiful, vivid canopy of luxurious white. Lovely in the springtime. (CT) Share this Story: Tweet
Work Ensues To Remove Asbestos From Court Street ‘R’ Station Cables
Work began this month within the Court Street R subway station line to remove asbestos from cables along the tracks. It will endure through July 23. That explains why there was no Manhattan-bound service over the weekend—although it doesn’t explain why one of the two elevators in the station was offline. Specifically, “asbestos abatement” in […]
Montague Street’s Taperia Slated For Grand Opening First Week Of May
Spanish tapas & wine bar Taperia at 132 Montague Street, is getting closer to its grand opening. Manager Bobby Cruz told BHB Saturday that the space has just completed building code approvals, with final interior finishes in the works. The goal: Doors opening in the first week of May. The renovation of the space below […]
Baby Brigade! Moms Plan Stroller Rally Saturday Against LICH Closing
Here’s a new twist. Brownstone Brooklyn moms whose kids were born at Long Island College Hospital are planning a stroller a march Saturday, April 13, to protest its planned closing.
Cobble Hill mama Liz Holden tells the New York Daily News, “We are bringing out the baby brigade to save our hospital. We want folks to call the governor’s office. Cuomo can stop this.”
Read more on the Cobble Hill Blog. (Photo: NY Daily News)
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Citizens Defending Libraries Plans Packed Slate Of Public Rallies April 13-20th
Citizens Defending Libraries, the Brooklyn Heights-based organization that is petitioning the city to stop selling public library real estate to private developers, has a full slate of rallies in the coming week. Neighbors forming the group have collected 8893 virtual petition signatures, demanding that the Cadman Plaza Library and its building, in place since 1962, […]
New BHA President Alexandra Bowie On LICH, Library and Living In The Heights
Alexandra Bowie, the newly installed president of the Brooklyn Heights Association (and a Brooklyn Bugle contributor), talks LICH, libraries and other neighborhood issues in a lengthy 2,200+-word Q&A with Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Among highlights: * Mission: BHA’s “most active committees are Traffic, Landmarks and Parks. The issues we work on, traffic, trees, tour buses, rats, […]
Sparring Match: ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Crew Trashing The Heights—Or Not?
There’s a dynamic little sparring match taking place over in the Brownstoner forum. Heights’ Henry Street resident Dean Collins posted a comment & pic grumbling about Wednesday’s pervasive “Boardwalk Empire” shoot, insisting “Hey, ‘Empire’ producers, you left your sh*t in front of my apartment.” His comment reads: “Classless move. Came home to see that the […]
Residential Real Estate 1Q 2013: ‘It Is A Hot Market In Brooklyn Heights’
The Wall Street Journal summarizes a number of 1Q reports on the residential sales market across NYC in a story today titled “Sellers Gaining The Upper Hand.” Summary: Double-digit declines in inventory are driving up median prices, “with large increases reported in Brooklyn. The number of contracts signed during first quarter was up sharply, leading […]
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