Seems like the roof repairs free spirit/owner Dr. Austin Moore commissioned for the roof of 194 Columbia Heights back in 2009 aren’t holding up. Two years after promising the neighborhood would be “surprised” by the improvements he planned, there seems to be more problems at the decaying townhouse.
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BHS Features “Map of the Month”
The Brooklyn Historical Society is starting a new feature: “Map of the Month”, which will appear on the BHS blog. This month’s map is from 1655 and shows “Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae” (New Netherland, New England and part of Virginia). It is attributed to Nicholas Visscher, and features a view of […]
A Tale of Two Bridges
Mr. J. takes a long, loving look at two of the great suspension bridges connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan. Video and Karl’s text after the jump.
CVS Site Was Once Henry Miller’s Hellhole
Over the years, Brooklyn Heights has been home to enough writers, actors, musicians, and visual artists to rival its not-too-distant neighbor Greenwich Village as a Bohemian community. Many, including novelist Norman Mailer, playwright Arthur Miller, and sculptor John Rhoden, seem to have liked living here. Horror fiction master H.P. Lovecraft, by contrast, found the neighborhood […]
Remembering Heights Resident Ella Wolfe
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, historian and professor emerita at CUNY Brooklyn College, greets Women’s History Month with a remembrance, in HuffPo, of the woman who taught her Spanish at Bay Ridge High School over half a century ago. Ella Wolfe, born in Ukraine in the late nineteenth century, emigrated to Williamsburg at the age of ten. While […]
BHA, Other Plaintiffs Amend Federal Tobacco Warehouse Complaint, Add Park Corporation as Defendant
The Brooklyn Heights Association and co-plaintiffs Fulton Ferry Landing Association and New York Landmarks Conservancy, responding to the decision of the National Park Service to affirm its earlier ruling and approve the transfer of the Tobacco Warehouse site for development as a new venue for St. Ann’s Warehouse, returned to federal court yesterday with an […]
Riverside Tenants’ Association Receives BHA’s Community Service Award
Naturally, we’ve been kvelling about the Community Service Award the Brooklyn Heights Association gave to BHB at their annual meeting Monday evening. Ours was not, however, the only such award given. The other, very deserving, in our view, recipient was the Riverside Tenants’ Association, honored for its work to preserve the Riverside Apartments, on Columbia […]
Historic Districts Council Conference at St. Francis This Saturday
The Historic Districts Council, which advocates the preservation of historic neighborhoods in New York City, will hold its 17th annual Preservation Conference, “Looking Forward, Looking Back”, this weekend, with the main event, a series of lectures, to be held at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, on Saturday, March 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 […]
BHS to Host “Trivial and Convivial” Pub Night Thursday, March 10
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will present its second of what bids to be a regular event: the “Trivial and Convivial” trivia contest and pub night on Thursday, March 10, starting at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30). Come armed with your knowledge of Brooklyn trivia and with your thirst: […]
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