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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 15, 2013 11:59 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Comedy, DUMBO, Election 12, Election 13, Events, Gardening, Government, Kids, Maritime, Nature, Obituaries, podcast, Red Hook, Religion, schools, Shopping

This coming weekend is a big one for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Sunday, the Park will celebrate the 130th anniversary of the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge with a marathon reading of Hart Crane’s epic poem The Bridge at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1 starting at 3:00 p.m. More details here. The [...]

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Mid-Week Walk Photos: Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on May 5, 2013 1:18 am in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Nature, Photos, Sports, Traffic

Late Wednesday afternoon I took a walk north along the Promenade, across the pedestrian bridge to Pier 1, south along the Brooklyn Bridge Park walkway to Pier 5, then up Joralemon to home on Montague. Cherry blossoms provided a splash of color at the Promenade’s north end. Brilliant green ferns on the Pier 1, Brooklyn [...]

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Heights Promenade: One Good Perennial Deserves Another

By on April 27, 2013 8:56 am in Brooklyn Heights, Fun, Gardening, Nature

Just as the spectacular spray of yellow daffodils has peaked along the Promenade, the enduring warm weather has allowed a kaleidoscope of colors from the other plentiful perennial—tulips—to burst into bloom. Vivid reds, warm whites, pretty pinks and prismatic purples are now abounding all along the walkway. Ooh, la la! (CT)

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EHS Volunteers Tidy Up Cadman Plaza Park For Earth Day

By on April 26, 2013 4:15 pm in Brooklyn Heights, charity, Education, Environment, Nature

Those damn water-balloon dropping neighborhood college kids! No, wait… those lovely, responsible pillars of tomorrow’s society. Yeah, that’s it… Educational Housing Services (EHS) roused 40 area students to help tidy Brooklyn Heights’ Cadman Plaza Park last Sunday, April 21, Earth Day eve. Volunteers represented neighborhood institutes Baruch College, Berkeley College, John Jay College, Long Island [...]

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Brooklyn Heights In Bloom: Tweets Of Fauna, Flora and Fun In The Neighborhood This Weekend

By on April 21, 2013 1:34 pm in Nature

Sure, Saturday was 4/20 duuuude but for those who don’t “celebrate” that “holiday” there was still plenty of mindbending excitement in Brooklyn Heights this weekend. Or at least a lot of photos of trees and the promenade.

Check ‘em out after the jump.

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Mid-day Walk Photos

By on April 14, 2013 12:22 am in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, Gardening, Maritime, Nature, Photos

Having slept in for a while this morning, I got a somewhat later start than usual on my Saturday walk, heading out shortly before noontime. As I walked, I noticed that the Forsythia, which were just beginning to bloom last week, and pear blossoms, which were not to be seen then, were profuse along Hicks [...]

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Take A Look At Me Now: Holly Jolly Heights

By on April 11, 2013 12:40 am in Brooklyn Heights, Gardening, Nature

This little Holly bush near the Montague Street entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, survived the brutal winter—as seen in February and now. This week, it is surrounded by a cluster of festive daffodils. Good things come to those who wait, indeed. (CT)

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Brooklyn Greenway Aims To Connect 14-Mile Pedestrian & Bike Path Along Waterfront

By on April 9, 2013 6:07 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Nature, News, Red Hook, Transportation

The Department of Transportation is moving forward with a plan to construct a greenway along the Brooklyn waterfront that would link the borough all the way from Bay Ridge to Greenpoint—including Brooklyn Heights along Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Wall Street Journal reports that construction is scheduled to begin this summer in Red Hook. The completed [...]

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Morning Walk Photos

By on March 4, 2013 12:46 pm in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Maritime, Nature

My morning walks, these days mostly confined to Saturday mornings because of my work schedule, usually follow the same route: from Montague on to the Promenade, down one block to Remsen, across to Hicks, down to Joralemon, then down the hill, past One Brooklyn Bridge Park and on to Pier 5. I then walk around [...]

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More Morning Walk Photos

By on February 17, 2013 12:10 am in brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Nature, Photos

The communications tower atop the new One World Trade Center is taking shape, as it approaches its maximum height of 1,776 feet. Note the copper-patina bluish green spire of 40 Wall Street directly in front of it. This was taken from Pier 5, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Duck paddling in the water next to Pier 5. [...]

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