The residents of 120 Montague Street were happier for having been awakened just after 1:00 this morning when the Fire Department responded to a report of a carbon monoxide alarm. A quick check of the building showed that CO levels had reached exceedingly dangerous levels on the upper floors (over 400 ppm, at one point) […]
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Marc Hermann is a Brooklyn Heights native who works as a photographer and photo editor for the New York Daily News. Starting out as a teenager who would chase the local fire companies to emergency scenes, Marc's first news photos appeared in the Packer Collegiate Institute's school paper, before he made the jump to the Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Eagle, and, finally, the Daily News. "weegee" is a tribute to the moniker of legendary New York press photographer Arthur Fellig,Author Archive | weegee
He Came In Through the Back Room Window
Firefighters and cops descended on 10 Clark St. shortly after 7:00 tonight, following a report of a person stuck on a ledge several stories above the courtyard. They arrived to find this man perched on an air conditioning unit around the 4th floor, apparently having been locked out of his apartment and resorting an unorthodox […]
Just Flu In…Arm’s Sore
City Councilman David Yassky joined his colleagues at City Hall, including Mayor Bloomberg, who got their flu shots from Department of Health personnel in the Blue Room Thursday afternoon. The city has info about the flu and vaccines here. Share this Story: Tweet
Abduction on Joralemon Street
Cops say that a mother having a supervised visit with her identical twin nine-year-old daughters disappeared with the kids from the Catholic Charities building at 191 Joralemon Street earlier tonight. Channel 4 should have a story on at 11. The report from 1010 WINS: Police were searching for twin 9-year-old girls Thursday after they were […]
Veteran Newswoman had Heights Connection
The New York Times published a very nice obituary on Friday for Edith Evans Asbury, who died last week at her Greenwich Village home. Asbury’s career spanned six decades, and brought her face-to-face with some of the most influential people of the 20th century. It is as a relative footnote, then, that we mention a […]
Yassky Proposes Term Limit Referendum
On the eve of a City Council vote on the fate of term limits for elected officials, Brooklyn Heights Councilman David Yassky and two of his colleagues officially remain undecided—but they have a better idea, anyway. Share this Story: Tweet
Bloomberg: Brown Trees? Green Money!
According to the Mayor’s Office, the NYC Waterfalls brought $69 million in revenue to the city—greater than the initial estimate of $55 million—and 1.4 million people came to see them. So they say. “People didn’t buy tickets or pass through a turnstile to experience the Waterfalls, but this exhibition brought people to areas of the […]
Secure Jobs in Economic Crunch: Bank Robber
The Citibank at 181 Montague St. is no stranger to excitement. At around 9:45 this morning, a man in his 50s, wearing a plaid jacket, displayed a firearm, passed a note to a teller, and fled with an unknown amount of currency. Share this Story: Tweet
Gunpoint Robbery on Joralemon
Police are investigating what was dispatched as a robbery at gunpoint that occurred on Joralemon St. near Sidney Pl. within the past hour. A neighborhood resident reports being approached by a white male who wore a Yankees cap, jeans, and a black t-shirt with red lettering. The suspect fled west on Joralemon St. and disappeared […]
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