Update: there will be a complete LICH update at the Cobble Hill Association’s Fall Meeting this Monday, October 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Cobble Hill Health Center, 380 Henry Street. More details here. According to Crain’s New York Business, SUNY Downstate Medical Center has sent layoff notices to 500 workers at Long Island College Hospital. […]
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#SaveLICH Activities This Week
This dispatch just in from Mickey Green and the NYS Nurses Association:
Brooklyn Law School Presents Forum of Present and Former City Council Members Tuesday Evening, October 29
Next Tuesday evening, October 29, from 6:00 to 7:30 Brooklyn Law School will present a panel discussion, “Good Council: Representing Brooklyn,” featuring the incumbent, Stepehen Levin, and three former–Ken Fisher, The Hon. Abraham Gerges, and David Yassky–City Council Members representing the 33rd District, which includes Brooklyn Heights and nearby neighborhoods. Join us for an insider’s […]
Levin Hosts Participatory Budgeting Meeting Tuesday
Want to be in on planning how City Council Member Steve Levin, who represents the 33rd Council District that includes Brooklyn Heights and nearby neighborhoods, spends a budget of $1 million? He’s scheduled a Neighborhood Assembly this Tuesday evening, October 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street (between Court and […]
DUMBO Post Office Is A Mess
A BHB reader sent us this photo of the United States Post Office outlet at 84 Front Street in DUMBO. It shows a floor littered with envelopes, labels and other postal detritus. “What a waste and a shame,” our tipster says. She’s not the first person to notice how utterly unkempt the outpost is, as […]
Joe Lhota’s Mayoral Campaign Goes To The Dark Side
Brooklyn Heights resident/mayoral candidate/ bicycle outlaw Joe Lhota has unleashed a new very dark campaign ad. The spot warns that a DiBlasio administration would reduce the number of cops on the street and return New York City to the bad old days of the 1970s. Like this? Probably more like this 70s: But while Lhota, […]
BHA, Other Community Groups And De Blasio Now #SaveLICH ‘Intervenors’
The Brooklyn Eagle reports on the latest round in the SaveLICH saga. Kings County Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest granted Public Advocate/ mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio a seat at the “intervenor” table in determining the next operator of Long Island College Hospital. He joins the Brooklyn Heights Association, the Cobble Hill Association, the Riverside […]
Brooklyn Heights Cinema Offers Discount to Furloughed Federal Workers
Kenn Lowy, owner of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) says he is offering a discount for furloughed federal government employees for the duration of the present government shutdown. If you show your federal employee ID, admission is $10. (The discount doesn’t apply to Friday afternoon matinee showings, for which the […]
Laws? Who Needs ‘Em! Joe Lhota Rides A CitiBike With The NY Daily News
While we were celebrating Toddler Fink’s birthday and 22 glorious years with Mrs. Fink last week, we somehow missed this brilliant piece of journalism from NY Daily News reporter Justin Rocket Silverman. The intrepid reporter, who we will now refer to as NOT KUNTZMAN, rode CitiBikes with GOP mayoral candidate/Brooklyn Heights resident Joe Lhota. This, […]
Squadron Squished By Tish In Public Advocate Run Off
NYC Councilmember Tish James soundly defeated NYS Senator Daniel Squadron in today’s runoff election for Public Advocate.
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