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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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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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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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E-Waste Recycling Event May 4 and 5

By on April 16, 2013 11:18 pm in Environment, Events

You may take your no-longer-useful electronic devices for recycling at the First Unitarian Church chapel, on Pierrepont Street between Clinton Street and Monroe Place, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 and from noon to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. A list of items that may be recycled is on the [...]

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Sweet Pea CSA Accepting Members For 2013 Vege Season

By on March 7, 2013 11:11 am in Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Food, Gardening, Shopping

Brooklyn Heights-based CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) The Sweet Pea is accepting members for the upcoming season, with options for a full or half vegetable share, fruit, egg, flower, meat or cheese share. A typical vegetable share includes 7-8 items per week, with more in the summer and autumn than spring. The organization’s pricing is online, [...]

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BBP Hotel & Residential Complex To Be Raised 3 Feet To Protect Against Flooding

By on February 22, 2013 11:53 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Environment

Developers overseeing the planned hotel and residential complex near Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 close to Old Fulton Street want to raise both buildings by at least 3 feet to avoid potential flood damage from a future Hurricane Sandy, which devastated much of the surrounding DUMBO neighborhood. The development, which comprises a mixed use 159-apartment [...]

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No Trash Pick-Up on President’s Day

By on February 17, 2013 11:01 pm in Environment

Tomorrow (Monday, February 18) is the Presidents’ Day holiday, and the Brooklyn Heights Association reminds us that there’s no trash pick-up. Monday recyclable pick-up will resume a week from tomorrow (Monday, February 25). Regular garbage pick-up will be on this Wednesday, February 20.

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