Brooklyn Heights Blog

Pierrepont Playground was packed today following the Annual Brooklyn Heights Halloween Parade.  If you were there, please add your photos to the BHB Photo Club on Flickr and we’ll post a slideshow here soon!

Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee will hold their annual Kids’ Halloween Parade this Saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. at Pierrepont Playground, Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights. More details are available at the BH Playgrounds website.

For a full list of Halloween fun, check out Cobble Hill Blog.

Kiddie Korner, the new Chabad daycare center on Montague Street, is profiled in The Jewish Week:

The Jewish Week: “We wanted to convey a calm feeling,” says Kiddie Korner Director Shternie Raskin. “We told the architects we were going for a Zen feeling, something that was like a yoga studio.”
While yoga studios have become a dime a dozen in New York, day care centers like Kiddie Korner, where parents can bring children as young as 2 months old, are shockingly rare.

Perfect weather predicted for the Howl-o-Ween charity costume parade, which will begin this Sunday, 1pm, at the Remsen Street entrance to the Promenade. Following the procession up the Promenade, there will be costume judging at the corner of Middagh and Columbia Heights at approximately 1:30pm.

If you and your dog will participate in the contest make sure you purchase your tax deductible entrance ticket ($25) at Perfect Paws (corner of Hicks and Pineapple Street), by Saturday afternoon. More info here.

Lots of prizes and goodies for entrants this year, including Visa gift cards, gift certificates from local restaurants, vets, and other stores.  All event proceeds go to animal-related charities.

If you just want to watch the madness, come on down–it’s free to observe. Bring the kids.  It’s a lot of fun.

As the weather gets crisper, your dog obsessed neighbors’ thoughts turn to the annual Howl-o-Ween Doggie Charity Costume Parade and Contest, organized by Perfect Paws and Friends of Hillside Dog Park.

This year, the event will be held on Sunday, October 25th at 1pm, beginning at the Remsen Street entrance to the Promenade.

It’s free to attend the parade, but if you want to enter your dog the cost is $25. All proceeds will be donated to nonprofit animal  causes, including a portion to Friends of Hillside Dog Park, Inc., which is the nonprofit that advocates for Hillside.

To the amazement and bewilderment of tourists and locals alike, the parade will march to the north end of the Promenade then cross the street at the corner of Columbia Heights and Middagh Street where a team of local celebrity judges will review the contestants starting around 2:00pm.

Fun will be had by all, including prizes and doggie bags for contestants. If you’ve participated in the past, you know what a blast it is. If you’ve never joined, come on down and have a good time.  We’ll have the usual contingent of costumed adults and kids, dolled up dogs, and drag queens.

The costumes are always imaginative and usually hysterical. It’s a fun way to spend a few hours on a Sunday afternoon in the Heights.

Following the judging and the prizes, all contestants and their humans are welcome to burn off the stress of competition at Hillside Dog Park.

Tickets are now available at Perfect Paws at 102 Hicks Street, the corner of Pineapple Street. Tel: (718) 852-6200

You must purchase your ticket at least a day before the event to register your dog.

Mini Max Toys and Cuts, a store offering an “eclectic variety of environmentally friendly toys and educational games”  recently opened at 152 Atlantic Avenue.

One of the Mini Max’s owners, Charu Kambo, tells BHB that the store will also be hosting story times, puppet shows, arts & crafts and more fun stuff for kids.  Oh and they offer kid’s haircuts too.

Mini Max Toys and Cuts
152 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11201
718-222-8697

minimaxnyc.com

The Brooklyn Eagle reports on a fun art program for kids at Pierrepont Playground:

Brooklyn Eagle: Creative Arts (for all ages) takes place Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – noon.

Science and Movement on Mondays are recommended for kids ages four and up:

• Science Mondays from 2:30–3:30 p.m.

• Movement Mondays from 3:30–4:30 p.m.

For more info go to bhplaygrounds.org

Know a high school student who loves to write? Borough President Marty Markowitz is hosting the fourth annual “Brooklyn Lit Match” teen writing contest, and the 10 winners will have their work published and the first-place winner will score a new laptop. The contest is part of the annual Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept. 13, and the deadline is June 20.

Per the press release:

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This just in from “Aaron” via the BHB Inbox:

Just wanted to let you know that Sesame Street will be filming tomorrow (6/3 Wednesday) on Columbia Place.  6:30am-9pm the signs say.

The Muppets took Joralemon Street over last September to film their Christmas special.

The Brooklyn Eagle has published a photo by its  nonagenarian photographer, Don Evans,  of a youngster riding his bike on the Promenade.  This following copy accompanied the picture:

CUTE BUT PROHIBITED: A youngster wheels along the Heights Promenade, which is officially reserved for strolling.

Ouch.  See the photo here.