This in from Judy Stanton of the Brooklyn Heights Association: The latest word from our Sanitation garage superintendent is that he’s sending out garbage trucks tonight and tomorrow throughout the Heights, and he expects to collect all garbage EXCEPT FOR RECYCLABLES before the snow starts tomorrow afternoon. Regarding recyclables: FINALLY, the DSNY plans to resume […]
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BHA: Garbage Pickup Resumes Tonight
The Brooklyn Heights Association gives us the following news: This is the word from the superintendent in charge of the Sanitation Department (DSNY) garage that services Brooklyn Heights (as well as the other neighborhoods sharing our Community Board district), and his information is more specific to us than anything you might be hearing on 311 […]
Choppers, MTA, Park, Albany Reform Dominate Squadron’s Community Meeting
About thirty local residents, your correspondent included, braved biting winds and a fierce flurry to get to 55 Pierrepont Street for last night’s community meeting, hosted by State Senator Daniel Squadron. On our arrival, the Senator’s Chief of Staff, John Raskin, treated us to Oreos and milk as tokens of regret for Sen. Squadron’s unavoidable […]
Promenade Gardeners Hold Bake Sale Saturday
The Promenade gardeners, who have been busy the past few weeks planting bulbs for daffodils and tulips that will bloom in the spring, are having a bake sale this Saturday, December 4, from 11:00 a.m. “until the last crumb”. The sale will take place on the Promenade at the Montague Street entrance. The rain date […]
Your Help Needed Now For Promenade Gardens to Bloom in Spring
Jonathan Landsman, the Promenade gardener, makes this appeal: Every Tuesday at 9:30 AM from now until Dec 14 volunteers meet on the Promenade to work in the gardens until noon. We meet at the Montague Street flagpole. Primarily we are digging and planting beds with the thousands of tulips that make our famous spring display […]
BBP promotes E-Waste Recycling Event
While it might not be spring cleaning time yet, Brooklyn Heights residents have a chance to get rid of some clutter and help the environment. Brooklyn Bridge Park, in association with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, will hold its first electronic waste recycling event on Saturday, October 2nd from 10am – 4pm. The event […]
NYTimes Digs into Tunnel Issue
(edited by Qfwfq) The N.Y. Times catches on to the BQE tunnel idea, speaks with vocal local yokel and Judi Francis‘ beau Roy Sloane: A fourth tunnel idea that would skip Brooklyn Heights entirely has been put forward by a local graphic designer, Roy Sloane. He would bore an almost three-mile tube straight under the […]
Refresh with Water-on-the-Go
If you haven’t had enough water with all of the rain over the past few days, head down to Washington Street at the corner of Prospect Street today for a little refresher. The New York Department of Environmental Protection has set up water bottle refill stations all over the city, including right here in our […]
Park Officials Apologize for Noise: Give Schedule for Summer Events
The Brooklyn Heights Association has forwarded communications from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation. An open letter addressed to “Dear Neighbors”, on letterhead of the Conservancy, but co-signed by Regina Myer, President of the BBPDC, and Nancy Webster, Executive Director of the Conservancy, includes the following: We wanted to let […]
Petunias
A showy display of pink and purple blossoms is found by the Montague Street entrance to the Promenade. Thanks go to Jonathan Landsman and the Promenade Partners. (Thanks also to AAR for answering your horticulturally challenged correspondent’s question: “What kind of flowers are these?”)
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