I recently met up with Inger Yancey, architect and founder of Brooklyn Green Roofs, a company that designs and installs green roofs atop city homes and offices. Green roofs not only bring a bit of nature back to the city, but create more energy-efficient buildings as well. More information after the jump!
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Promenade Pruning Demo Friday at Noon
This just in from the Promenade Gardner, Jonathan Landsman: Congratulations, Brooklyn Heights, the garden at the Montague Street entrance to the Promenade won Parks Department’s Garden of the Month last April! This season, to keep the garden excellent, I’ll be putting some finishing touches on that garden’s shrubs. On Friday at noon I’ll prune the […]
Tree Stalker Nabbed
A man described as “one seriously disturbed individual” was recently caught after police and local bloggers followed his trail of torn branches. The assailant was identified as Steve Maynard, a Prospect Heights resident who had been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation, then released only to vandalize the trees on Livingston St. from Flatbush Ave. to […]
Flowers in the Hole!
Clark Street Restaurant’s Harry Sgantzos showed off his green thumb, bringing a heartwarming ending to the saga of the Clark and Henry hole in the ground.
Con Ed Called: We’re Back In Business
Con Edison just made a friendly automated phone call alerting Heights residents that the full power has been restored. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming in the A/C.
Power Reductions Continue
This just in from Con Edison via the BHA: CON EDISON REDUCES VOLTAGE IN ADDITIONAL BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS NEW YORK – Because of problems on electrical cables supplying power to eight Brooklyn neighborhoods, Con Edison has reduced voltage by 8 percent to that area. The neighborhoods are Vinegar Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Red […]
Running the Heights!
With the nice weather finally upon us, it’s prime time to explore the beauty of Brooklyn Heights and squeeze in a workout at the same time: go for a run! As a BHB contributor and avid runner, I pose to my fellow pavement pounders a thread to share routes short and long, intense and easy, […]
Wind-Driven Arboricide Continues
While the tree carnage of ten days ago was spectacular, brisk winds tonight claimed another victim. BHB friend Martin L. Schneider, perhaps channeling Edward Bulwer-Lytton, sends the following, along with the photo above: It was a dark and stormy night. And this was the shocking scene on Monroe Place at the Clark Street corner around […]
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