Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Tobacco Warehouse must remain a public, multi-use facility and maintain its current mix of indoor/outdoor space, says The Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Council in a report provided exclusively to BHB. The BBPCC, a coalition of neighborhood groups and supporters of the park, states that, “the Tobacco Warehouse should remain a stabilized, architectural […]
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A Stroll Down Fulton Street
Homer’s pal/Brooklyn Heights resident/ Celine Dion expert / journalist/ biographer/ census worker Chuck “the Smoking Nun” Taylor takes a walk down Fulton Street and contemplates. He also Photoshops a few pictures (above) to look like Superfly-era snapshots: Smoking Nun: Its gentrification is an ongoing work in progress, but for now it is still inundated with […]
Got a Question About Brooklyn History?
Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger is a featured guest on WNYC radio this week. As Phoebe Neidl reports in today’s Brooklyn Daily Eagle: [T]his summer, the station is devoting a week to each borough, with the borough historian answering questions from listeners online at wnyc.org. This week Brooklyn is in the spotlight, and anyone can […]
Feds Grabbing 20 Henry Parking Spots
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Mary Frost reports that federal law enforcement officials, evidently tipped off by our coverage of the “stealth no parking zone” next to 20 Henry Street, have been using the spaces there. The Brooklyn Heights Association’s Judy Stanton took strong exception to this, as Frost’s article notes.
Karl Junkersfeld Gives His 2 Cents on 20 Henry Parking Flap to WCBS-TV
WCBS-TV (@wcbstv) jumps on a story originally reported here by the BHB community — the 20 Henry Street parking flap. Our Karl Junkersfeld was interviewed today by the station’s John Slattery. BHB commenter My2Cents drew attention to the ticket and tow meets obscured sign situation when he posted signs earlier this month near the […]
20 Henry Street Ticket Imbroglio – the Video
Karl Junkersfeld enlists the help of Cranberry’s Jim Montemarano in saving one car from being towed in front of 20 Henry Street. BHB reader “My2Cents” had posted signs warning unwitting motorists that they would be towed from the No Parking zone after the normal DOT sign was obscured by scaffolding around the old Peaks Mason Mints […]
Former Brooklyn Heights Resident Talks St. George Hotel, Mobsters and Music
My old pal and Brooklyn Heights native Binky Phillips writes about playing with his band The Planets at the old (and mobbed up…allegedly) Coventry Club in Sunnyside, Queens. While telling that story of rocking out in my old stomping grounds, Binky remembers seeing a show at the St. George Hotel:
The Brooklyn Heights Roots of Chicago, the Band
Chicago is a band unsurprisingly identified with its eponymous city, but its perhaps most influential member, Robert Lamm, grew up in Brooklyn Heights and received his earliest musical training as a member of the Grace Church youth choir (as did pop balladeer Harry Chapin). Lamm, whose parents divorced when he was fifteen, after which he […]
Mr. Junkersfeld to the Rescue of Historic Brownstone
This morning while walking on Pierrepont Place, BHB’s Karl Junkersfeld noticed that there was flooding at historic No. 2 Pierrepont Place. He enlisted the help of a passerby to call 311 and alert them of the situation. A neighbor called the owners. Our Claude Scales adds: This afternoon I looked out my window and saw […]
Levin: Hey Macy’s Bring the Fireworks Back to East River!
Bring the Fireworks Back! from Heather Quinlan on Vimeo. Last year, Macy’s had their 4th of July fireworks on the Hudson to commemorate Henry Hudson’s voyage. Unfortunately, they liked it so much they decided to keep them there. So for the second 4th in a row, a large number of New Yorkers will only be […]
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