Accordion music, knishes, and egg creams, along with our Heather Quinlan, greeted upwards of 100 guests at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema this evening to see a preview of Heather’s work-in-progress film If These Knishes Could Talk. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was on hand to give a short talk on the Brooklyn accent, which he, naturally, considers the true American speech (never mind those people who say the real McCoy is found in Buffalo). He also described how one of the best kosher delis in Brooklyn has passed from Jewish to Italian to Egyptian Muslim hands, while remaining kosher. Marty was treated to a birthday knish with candles. Continue Reading →
Knishes Preview at Brooklyn Heights Cinema a Success
That’s Our Girl: Neighbor Björk Performs In Queens To Support “Biophilia”
Brooklyn Heights resident Björk has launched a combination concert & performance art event in support of her new album “Biophilia,” at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. If you missed her opening set Friday, she will encore Monday 2/6, Thursday 2/9, Sunday 2/12 and Wednesday 2/15. Continue Reading →
Heights Neighbor Björk Releases “App Album” “Biophilia”
Warbling Icelandic recording artist and Brooklyn Heights neighbor Björk, who bought a pad on Henry Street with filmmaker hubby Matthew Barney in 2009, has released new album “Brooklynphilia.” No, wait, that’s not right: It’s “Biophilia.” She appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” January 31 to rap about the project and perform tracks.
According to USA Today, the recording is—historically—the “first app album,” in collaboration with Apple. Continue Reading →
Heights Playwright Molly Smith Metzler Profiled In Sunday LA Times
Molly Smith Metzler, a playwright who lives in the Heights with fellow theater scribe Colin McKenna, is featured in a Sunday Los Angeles Times profile January 22. Her play “Elemeno Pea,” opens Feb. 3 at South Coast Repertory. The Tony-winning professional company in Costa Mesa, Calif., is regarded as one of America’s foremost producers of new works. Continue Reading →
Brooklyn Heights Artist & Gardener Ford Rogers Displays Paintings At Noodle Pudding
Brooklyn Heights-based artist, gardener, musician, author, sculpturist and overall creative guru Ford Rogers is whetting the artistic appetites of visitors at popular Italian eatery Noodle Pudding—at 38 Henry Street—with a dozen of his original paintings on display through February. Continue Reading →
Welcome to Brooklyn Heights: Actress Amy Ryan and Writer Eric Slovin
The NY Observer reports that actress Amy Ryan (The Office, The Wire) and her former SNL writer husband Eric Slovin are moving to Brooklyn Heights.
Slovin is the writing partner of former Pierrepont Street resident, now Cobble Hillbilly, Simon Rich. So when they’re not crossing the Atlantic Avenue DMZ to visit him, perhaps Ryan and Slovin will be dropping in to see her Win Win co-star Paul Giamatti who lives a mere stone’s throw away from their new Hicks Street digs. Continue Reading →
Brooklyn Heights’ Rabbi Simcha Says No Gelt, No Glory

Sometimes it just feels like life is all nun and shin but no gimel. This is especially true during heated games of dreidel during Chanukah. Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (@rabbisimcha) of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights shares his double secret super dreidel powers: Continue Reading →
Playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space Opens on Broadway
Brooklyn Heights resident/ playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space opens tonight on Broadway at New York City Center Stage I [131 W. 55th Street Manhattan] (buy tickets). The play, recently in previews, stars David Hyde Pierce as Paul Barrow “an obsessive book editor on a major deadline.” Continue Reading →
WCBS 880 Interviews Brooklyn Heights Resident/Author Valerie Frankel
Brooklyn Heights resident/author/BHB pal/ Snookie’s ghost writer Valerie Frankel plugs her new book It’s Hard Not to Hate You in an interview with WCBS 880′s Pat Farnack. Listen after the jump. Continue Reading →
Heights Carver McMahon Cuts Kardashian for Midori Bash
At a pre-Halloween party sponsored by Midori, our acclaimed local pumpkin carver Hugh McMahon, who, it seems, can also apply his talent to other vegetables, produced a pumpkin likeness of Brooklyn Bridge Park fan Kim Kardashian.
Wall Street Journal Online: It took three hours to create the gourd, which weighed 125 pounds and stood three-and-a-half feet tall. “I did Heidi Klum a little quicker,” said Mr. McMahon, a Brooklyn Heights resident who this year alone has carved Anderson Cooper into a pumpkin and Susan Sarandon into a watermelon. “In [Kim's] case, it’s getting the eyebrows right. They’re very pronounced. I hope it’s voluptuous. I think it is.”
Happy 50th Birthday to Phantom Tollbooth, the Book with Brooklyn Heights Roots
As a few commenters have noted, Norton Juster’s classic The Phantom Tollbooth is celebrating its 50th birthday this week. Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer shared an apartment in Brooklyn Heights where the book was written: Continue Reading →
It’s Halloween, Time for the Brooklyn Heights Pumpkin Carving Guy Story
The Brooklyn Eagle covers the artistic stylings of world renowned pumpkin carver guy/Brooklyn Heights resident Hugh McMahon:
Brooklyn Eagle: An uncanny likeness of celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse — with the addition of an eerie orange glow — emerged from the X-acto knife held by “pumpkin carver to the stars,” Hugh McMahon. The pumpkin was destined for a tribute to Lagasse at the New York City Food & Wine Festival at the Chelsea Market.
“I’ve been on his program four or five times,” McMahon nonchalantly told the Brooklyn Eagle. “It gets very busy this time of year — the orders are pouring in. Last year I carved for Heidi Klum’s Halloween party. This year it’s Red Bull and something for the Nets. They’re talking about a logo.”
Cruisin’ with Hart Crane on Sands Street
Ephemeral New York takes a look at the seedy history of Sands Street and mentions how much one time Brooklyn Heights resident/author Hart Crane sure liked to “cruise” the strip: Continue Reading →
NYT: Fight Breaks Out Over Mailer’s Columbia Heights Apartment
The New York Times reports today on a lawsuit over the sale of the late Norman Mailer’s 142 Columbia Heights co-op: Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday One Time Brooklyn Heights Resident Arthur Miller
The Brooklyn Eagle marks the occasion of what would have been former Brooklyn Heights resident Arthur Miller’s 96th birthday with a great article detailing the highlights of his life here.
Brooklyn Eagle: During his time in Brooklyn Heights, Miller “never gravitated toward a society of writers.” He was far more likely to explore the livelier neighborhoods just beyond the Heights. “I loved walking along the waterfront,” he recalled. “When I got interested in the longshoremen, I spent a lot of time in Red Hook around Columbia Street. There was a movement at the time to rid the union of racketeers … I knew a newly graduated lawyer involved in that struggle. There were lots of murders, bodies dropping into the river in concrete slabs. He called me. He thought I could get some publicity in the papers. Then I became a supernumerary of that movement.” Miller’s experience in Red Hook gave him the background for A View from the Bridge and the young lawyer furnished part of the characterization of Alfieri.
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