On the eve of the City Council’s public hearing about the Dock Street DUMBO development project (Thursday at 10 am at City Hall), we asked Councilman David Yassky what he’s doing to rally support against the project and how he’d feel if the city council voted for the project. “I think my arguments are getting […]
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84th Precinct Police Blotter 5/19/09
There was lots of smashed glass and stolen cars last week, and a few stolen cellphones, too. Here’s a round-up: Overnight on May 9, a perp smashed through a glass window at a dentist’s office on Livingston Street, near Nevins Street, causing $5,000 in damage but not stealing anything. The next night, a perp stole […]
Sea Asian Opens at New Location
Sea Asian has made the move from Clark Street to 125 Livingston Street as seen in this photo from BHB Photo Club contributor Kris10cw. Owner John Tjon told Brooklyn Heights Blog last month that the restaurant will still deliver to their customers in Brooklyn Heights. Their phone number remains the same: 718-625-9893.
84th Precinct Police Blotter
The big news this week was the arrest of three suspects in the recent robberies in the Heights, and it was a light week in the neighborhood’s crime otherwise.
An inside look at Brooklyn Fare!
We just got a tour of the new Brooklyn Fare grocery store that opened yesterday at the corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn streets — and, so far, it all looks quite exciting.
Fanfare! Brooklyn Fare opens today
There’s a yet another new grocery store in town — Brooklyn Fare opened today at the corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn streets in Downtown. We’re headed out for a full-scale tour with owner Moe Issa and chef Cesar Ramirez on Thursday, and will report back with lots of photos and how it looks inside. In […]
Update: Concord Market to open this summer
Strike that, reverse it — we just heard from Alap Vora, Concord Market’s general manager, with an update about the store’s construction schedule. “The schedule changed this morning,” Vora said. The new schedule put an opening at the store, which is at the intersection of Tillary and Jay streets, in mid-June to early July — […]
Concord Market to open in May
It’s been a long year without a grocery store for Concord Village residents, but by mid-May, Concord Market will finally open for business. Last July, the Associated supermarket at the corner of Tillary and Jay streets closed amid health department concerns and allegations of general mismanagement. The Concord Village Board of Directors started looking for […]
Designs for 72 Poplar St., and other CB2 land use meeting recaps
Lots of exciting votes came out of tonight’s Community Board 2 Land Use committee meeting. For starters, there are plans to reconfigure 72 Poplar St., the former 84th Precinct station house, into 24 luxury, market-rate rental apartments. The developer — Regal Investments — has revised its 2007 plan and the building’s reconstruction now includes a […]
Boro Hall Takes Energy Conservation “Lightly…”
Pardon us for asking, but wasn’t Brooklyn Borough Hall supposed to go dark for Earth Hour? The photo was taken at 8:45, and at 9:00, nothing had changed. The Brooklyn Bridge, however, did what it was supposed to do.
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