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SUNY Downstate Hosts Town Hall Meeting Monday To Discuss LICH ‘Sustainability Plan’

By on May 20, 2013 12:30 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Government, Health, News

A town hall meeting is taking place today to discuss a sustainability plan for SUNY Downstate, the hospital that controls the fate of Long Island College Hospital. The meeting was held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Alumni Auditorium in Brooklyn. The public was allowed to offer comments of no [...]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “Blooms and Bugs”: Lots of Blooms, No Bugs, Some Birds

By on May 20, 2013 11:20 am in brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Gardening, Nature

As we noted before, this was a big weekend for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Your correspondent chose to register for the early Sunday morning “Blooms and Bugs” tour around Pier 1. The tour leader was Matthew Wills (photo), who publishes the blog Backyard and Beyond. Matthew began by noting that we weren’t likely to [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 2, 2013 11:43 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Fulton Ferry Historic District, movies, Music

Saturday is Derby Day. So, if the thunder of hoofbeats quickens your pulse, and if you’re not attending a friend’s party or hosting your own, you may want to go to a local TV-equipped bar to enjoy the race. According to ProspectHeightsPatch, Floyd, 131 Atlantic Avenue (between Clinton and Henry), will be serving beer cheese, [...]

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Mental Health Film Festival @ St. Francis Sunday

By on April 30, 2013 10:01 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Health, movies

This coming Sunday, May 5, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Community Access and the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Inc. will present a Mental Health Film Festival at St. Francis College, 182 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Court). Films to be shown include Rethink BPD, a documentary about Amanda Wang (photo), a [...]

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NYC’s Recyclable Universe Expands

By on April 28, 2013 9:59 pm in Environment, Government

The Brooklyn Heights Association reminds us that New York City’s list of recyclable materials has been expanded to include all “rigid plastics,” a category that includes: plastic bottles, jugs & jars, rigid plastic caps & lids, rigid plastic food containers (yogurt, deli, hummus, dairy tubs, cookie tray inserts, “clamshell” containers, other plastic take-out containers) rigid [...]

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EHS Volunteers Tidy Up Cadman Plaza Park For Earth Day

By on April 26, 2013 4:15 pm in Brooklyn Heights, charity, Education, Environment, Nature

Those damn water-balloon dropping neighborhood college kids! No, wait… those lovely, responsible pillars of tomorrow’s society. Yeah, that’s it… Educational Housing Services (EHS) roused 40 area students to help tidy Brooklyn Heights’ Cadman Plaza Park last Sunday, April 21, Earth Day eve. Volunteers represented neighborhood institutes Baruch College, Berkeley College, John Jay College, Long Island [...]

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Encouraging News on the #SaveLICH Front

By on April 25, 2013 10:51 pm in Cobble Hill, Government, Health, News

Today the City Council passed a resolution (approved by its Health Committee yesterday) that, according to the Eagle, “calls on the State University of New York and the State Department of Health to work with stakeholders to find a new owner for [Long Island College Hospital] the 150-year old Cobble Hill institution.” While the resolution [...]

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Five Acre Farms Founder/CEO Dan Horan In The Running For SlowMoney Entrepreneur Prize

By on April 23, 2013 6:13 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Food, Profiles

Longtime Brooklyn Heights resident Dan Horan, Founder/CEO of Five Acre Farms—who was profiled by BHB in 2011—is a finalist for Slow Money USA’s Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The $50k winner will be announced at the 4th Slow Money National Gathering April 29-30 in Boulder, Colo. Slow Money is a funder of local [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 18, 2013 10:43 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Steel Magnolias, which will be playing Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at 26 Willow Place. On Saturday at noon, at the same location, Heights Players Theater for Children will present The Wizard of Oz, a “participation [...]

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Reminder: 3 Brooklyn Heights CSAs Accepting Applicants For Summer Season

By on April 18, 2013 10:38 am in Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Food, Gardening, News

Deadlines are approaching for the upcoming season at three CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) serving Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn Bridge CSA @ Congregation Mt. Sinai, 250 Cadman Plaza West; Sweet Pea CSA @ First Unitarian Universalist Church, 50 Monroe Place; and the Cobble Hill CSA @ Brooklyn Heights’ Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, 157 [...]

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