New details about last week’s late-night robbers top this week’s police blotter. Continue Reading →
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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/31/10
Greenmarket Expands to Thursdays
With warmer weather comes the addition of a third day of shopping at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Greenmarket. Beginning tomorrow, the Greenmarket will be open on Thursdays, in addition to its year-round days of operation, Tuesdays and Saturdays. The hours will be, as always, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Design Expo Coming To DUMBO in May
Designers will invade DUMBO in May for the BKLYN DESIGNS exhibition, a three-day expo of contemporary accessories and furnishings made in Brooklyn. The center for the event will be St. Ann’s Warehouse and will feature work from 40 local designers, as well as a few panel discussions. A preview of some of the featured work can be found on the official website. The show, which runs from May 7 to May 9, will be $12 for advance tickets and $15 at the door.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/23/10
A cat burglar, a cradle robber and a bank robber top this week’s police blotter. Continue Reading →
Final Week for Matching PS 8 Donations
This week is the last chance to donate to PS 8′s new fundraising campaign challenge, where your donation could either be doubled or tripled. A parent has agreed to make a $20,000 contribution, with one catch: the amount must first be matched by other donors.
Most contributions will be matched 2-to-1, but for first time PS 8 parents who are donating, the rate will be 3-to-1. A secretary at the school said that she couldn’t reveal how much had been raised so far. If you’re looking to make a donation, you can do so at the school’s website.
Community Supported Agriculture Comes to Brooklyn Heights
A brand new community service agriculture program is springing up in Brooklyn Heights this summer. Beginning in June, the Brooklyn Bridge CSA will allow community members to join in a brand-new CSA.
In short, a CSA works by having all members pay a farmer upfront for a season’s worth of his produce, which will be distributed Tuesday evenings from June to November at Congregation Mt. Sinai at 250 Cadman Plaza West. Participation in the CSA will also require two-hour volunteer shifts to distribute food or work on other administrative tasks.
There will be a meeting tonight at Congregation Mt. Sinai at 7:30 p.m. for those interested in meeting the Farmer Fred from Long Island’s Sang Lee Farms, the partner for the Brooklyn Bridge CSA. Continue Reading →
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/16/10
It was a tough week for vehicles in Brooklyn Heights, with several thefts and a burglary topping this week’s police blotter. Continue Reading →
Brooklyn Historical Society Receives $440,000 Grant
The Brooklyn Historical Society was recently awarded a $440,000 grant to digitize materials that cover the period from 1834, the year Brooklyn was incorporated as a city, to 1898, the year it was consolidated into New York City.
The grant, from the Council on Library and Information Resources, will allow the society to survey, catalog and upload material from the BHS library archives, including photos and some 2,000 maps. The material will be made available online for students and history enthusiasts alike.
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/9/10
A bank robbery in DUMBO and a series of thefts in an office building top this week’s police blotter. Continue Reading →
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/2/10
Two robberies on Plymouth Street top this week’s police blotter. Continue Reading →
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 2/25/10
This week’s police blotter features one iPhone robbery and one attempted iPhone robbery that appear to be related. Continue Reading →
BHA Hosts 100th Annual Meeting
More than 100 residents gathered last night for the 100th annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association. The evening broke with tradition by beginning with keynote speaker Michael Van Valkenburg, landscape architect of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Continue Reading →
No Parking on Willow Place
BHB commenter bklyn20 issued this warning about the new temporary parking regulations on Willow Place that start immediately.
Attention anyone who’s parked on Willow Place: The MTA has put “All Cars Will Be Towed” signs up and down the block starting 2/18 — which I believe is today. Don’t know hour when towing begins. I will try to take a photo of the signs and email it in. MTA is digging test pits — related to 1/18 explosions– and the northern end of the block is now a capacious pit of dirt and pipes.
The regulations will be in effect for the next 10 days, through Feb. 28.
Rabid Raccoon Is “Isolated Incident”
The Courier Life reports that Brooklyn’s first rabid raccoon incident occurred last week near the corner of State and Nevins streets.
The Health Department caught and euthanized the raccoon on February 12 after it had displayed odd behavior by interacting with someone’s dog.
The agency is planning to enhance its raccoon surveillance in Brooklyn, looking for additional animals that appear sick or dead, and determine the full extent of the problem. “Right now, it’s an isolated incident,” Slavinski said, adding that the agency does not yet know if the disease is persistent in the borough’s raccoon population.
The diseased raccoon is the first found in Brooklyn since raccoon rabies, a variant of the rabies virus, first appeared in the city in 1992, the doctor said.
Watch BHB publisher Homer Fink’s brush with a crazy raccoon.
Choice Market Opens in DUMBO
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Beginning this morning, a new restaurant in DUMBO will be serving up breakfast and lunch right next to the York Street F station. Choice Market, located at 108 Jay Street, opens at 6 a.m. and stays open until lunch before expanding into dinner service in about two weeks. The space features a ceiling decorated by several local DUMBO artists.
DUMBONYC visited the market this morning and offers a full report including the fact that Choice offers Stumptown Coffee!
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