The mainstream media has been talking smack all week about HBO’s “Girls” creator Lena Dunham moving (back) to Brooklyn Heights, taking up residence at the Mansion House on Hicks Street. That’s prompting quite a bit of analysis about the historic neighborhood versus the uber-hipster vibe of Dunham’s character Hannah on the dramedy series—including The New […]
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HBO ‘Girls’ Creator Lena Dunham: You Can Come Home Again
Lena Dunham, creator, producer, director, writer & star of HBO’s freshman hit “Girls,” who grew up in Brooklyn Heights—and as we reported was planning a return to the nabe—purchased her Heights 1-bedroom, 800 sf digs on Hicks Street in mid-March, according to a frisky Q&A in The New York Times Sunday magazine and a post […]
Scotland On Sunday’s In-Depth Interview with Heights Resident Paul Giamatti
Scotland On Sunday featured an in-depth, nearly 2,000-word interview today, with our fave local celeb and nabe Paul Giamatti. The story opens, “He has made a career out of playing life’s unlikeable oddballs—the needy losers and the creeps—but Paul Giamatti is fine with that. (His) identity is unusual for a Hollywood star: He’s an abrasive […]
Actor/Comic Jerry Brooks Buys Digs At One Brooklyn Bridge Park
Actor and stand-up comedian Jerry Brooks—better known as J.B. Smoove—has closed on an 843-square-foot, 1-bedroom condo at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. The loft-style unit, for which he paid $524,398, includes a home office. The deal was brokered by MNS. Brooks is perhaps best known for playing Leon on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
BHB’s Heather Quinlan’s Knish Flick Covered on CBS This Morning
BHB contributor/filmmaker/Brooklyn Heights resident Heather Quinlan was a guest on CBS This Morning earlier this week discussing her upcoming documentary If These Knishes Could Talk. The package, as we say in the biz, ponders “are Americans losing their accents?” Watch the report after the jump.
Fox 5 NY: Parks Department “Looking into” Plan to Name Park After Adam Yauch
Fox 5 NY’s Heather Brown filed a report this evening confirming that the NYC Parks Department is “looking into” naming a park after Beastie Boy/Brooklyn Heights native Adam “MCA” Yauch who died of cancer earlier this month. Yesterday, we reported that the BHB community’s effort and Facebook page to rename Squibb Park after the musician […]
Adam Yauch Park Closer to Reality: On State Street In Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Heights Blog community’s effort (ignited by “She’s Crafty”) to rename Squibb Park to Adam Yauch Park went viral today. Our Facebook page now has more than 1,300 “Likes” and the idea has been covered by the Hollywood Reporter, Gothamist and 1010WINS Radio, to name a few. But a funny thing happened on the […]
Heights’ Resident Lena Dunham’s HBO ‘Girls’ Renewed For Second Season
HBO’s sad-sack series “Girls,” created, produced, directed, written by and starring Brooklyn Heights resident Lena Dunham, has been renewed for a 10-episode second season. The show revolves around the lives of four 20-somethings navigating love, life and careers in New York City post-college. Judd Apatow is an executive producer. “Girls” debuted April 15 on the […]
Let’s Make It Happen: Rename Squibb Park to Adam Yauch Park
READ IMPORTANT UPDATE HERE. Commenter “She’s Crafty” suggested in a comment on BHB that Squibb Park be renamed Adam Yauch Park to honor the Brooklyn Heights native and Beastie Boy MC who died earlier this month at the age of 47. We couldn’t agree more. We hope you do too. A Facebook page has been […]
Babs Returns To Brooklyn Roots With October Barclays Concert
Barbra Streisand’s Brooklyn roots are certainly no secret. She was born & raised in the borough and graduated in 1959 from Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush. However, she has not performed publicly in BK since then, some 53 years ago… until now. As the mainstream press has proclaimed, Babs, now 70, is returning home […]
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