BHB reader “Rich” sends us this photo of a very special rearrangement of Cutting Den’s sign at the Clark Street station. Guess the students are back and school’s back in session!
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Why pay a buck for a bottle when you can have NYC’s finest from a fountain for free? During the heat wave, the City has set up “Water-on-the-Go” stations at convenient spots, including this one on Columbus Plaza near Borough Hall.
Happy 5th Birthday, Self-Absorbed Boomer
Flatbush Gardener photo
BHB contributor Claude Scales is celebrating 5 years of his own blog Self Absorbed Boomer today. Claude’s been an essential cog in the BHB machinery and if you haven’t read his personal take on things Brooklyn and beyond now is a good time to check out SAB.
Happy Fourth Birthday BHB
Four years ago, Qfwfq and I had the nutty idea to start Brooklyn Heights Blog. I’d lived here for about a year and he’d soon follow. We’d worked on other sites together at CBS and we thought it would be fun to create a neighborhood blog here since no one else had launched one. My first post:
Welcome to brooklynheightsblog, the first “serious” blog from the geniuses at The Fink File. While Brooklyn has its share of great bloggers, we found precious little about our ‘hood in one centralized/not spam website. So instead of whining (or not getting off the couch) we decided to launch this blog.
We’re actively looking for “real” folks from our nabe to blog here about a variety of different topics. If you’re “that guy/gal” drop us an email (homer AT thefinkfile.com).
Onward and upward,
Homer Fink
Publisher, Altruist, BROOKLYNITE
We’ve met some great neighbors along the way and we look forward meeting more of you in the coming year.
This year, we’ve been quite fortunate to have been joined by new contributors Heather Quinlan, Julie Kanfer, Caitlin Heikkila as well as Cobble Hill Blog’s Jonah Eller-Isaacs and Jason Shaltz.
BHB wouldn’t have made it through 2007 without our “OGs” Marc Hermann and Claude Scales. Mega-kudos as well to contirbutors Karl Junkersfeld and TK Small as well as Diana Rosenthal who helped us kickstart CHB last year. And we’ll always be grateful to Sarah Portlock, Chief Correspondent Emeritus, for her contribution.
And also a big thanks to our many supporters in the community. But the biggest round of applause goes to you, our readers and regular commenters.
Onward and Upward… for another year!
John “Homer Fink” Loscalzo
Brooklyn Paper on Movie Noise: Not So Bad Now
The Brooklyn Paper writes this week about movie noise from Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View being no big deal — and that BQE traffic is louder.
We didn’t need the BHB Decibel Meter to notice that on July 23rd, the audio at the The Big Lebowski screening was very low in comparison to that of Monsters vs Aliens the week before. The high volume of that event rattled windows and nerves in the North Heights and many residents complained. That prompted the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy to issue a statement promising to manage the volume of the screenings at Pier 1. So far, so good. Kudos to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy for keeping their word to manage the noise.
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New Sign… Same Results
New sign on Atlantic Ave./BQE on-ramp
In a moment of heat inspired insanity, yesterday I went out for a roll around the neighborhood and decided to go down to Pier 6. It was my mission to check out whether any improvement had been made in the pedestrian crosswalk situation since it had been reported on BHB that DOT was aware of the problem and working on a solution. (more…)
ATMs Down at Citibank
If you were considering banking at Citibank this morning, think again, as a hastily-crawled note outside the door proclaimed “No ATMs.” I went in anyway just to test it out, but was shooed off by a security guard. Come Monday morning we may have to do baking the old-fashioned way, by waiting on the teller’s line.
UPDATE: They’re now working.
WA-tuh! WA-tuh! WA-tuh!
BHB photo by C. Scales
Why pay a buck for a bottle when you can have NYC’s finest from a fountain for free? During the heat wave, the City has set up “Water-on-the-Go” stations at convenient spots, including this one on Columbus Plaza near Borough Hall.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Access Denied
By all estimation, Tuesday afternoon June 15, was one of those uniquely beautiful days which should be spent outside, walking/rolling around Brooklyn Heights. Since I had not been down to Pier 1 Park recently, that was my destination after conducting some errands. However, you cannot fully appreciate my rage when I discovered that it is practically impossible for a person in a wheelchair to now get into Pier 1, without making a very dangerous trip along Furman Street in heavy traffic. This is completely unacceptable.
Every Picture Tells a Story
Wonder what the story is behind this one …
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