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Magic! DUMBO Post Office Is Cleaned Up After BHB Reader’s Photo Of Its Disarray

By on October 22, 2013 10:28 pm in DUMBO

Last week, a BHB reader sent us a photo of the DUMBO Post Office in total disarray. Envelopes, mailing slips and other paper were strewn all over the place. Well, it looks like the USPS are either fans of the BHB or just thatontopofit as our tipster now informs us that the place is now [...]

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Karl’s Weekend Preview

By on September 27, 2013 11:30 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Events, Food, Fun, Shopping, Visual Arts

Mr. J. gives us views (video after the jump) of some of the art installations you can see in this year’s DUMBO Arts Festival (photo), and footage of a previous Willowtown Fair and Atlantic Antic as previews for Cafe Iris’s Willowtown Bazaar and this year’s Atlantic Antic. All three of these events are this weekend: [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on September 26, 2013 12:57 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, movies, Music, Photography, Visual Arts

The DUMBO Arts Festival, “a three day [Friday, September 27 through Sunday, September 29] celebration of art, music & performance,” is this weekend. A preview, in the form of Michael Clyde Johnson’s “Untitled Benches, Tables (Cube for Children)” (2013), a work that “invites interaction” (as in the photo), has been in the Brooklyn Bridge Park [...]

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Empire Stores Redevelopment Plan Revealed

By on September 6, 2013 12:16 am in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Landmark Preservation

It was announced last week that Midtown Equities had been chosen as the developer for the adaptive re-use of the historic Empire Stores warehouse buildings, which extend along Water Street between Dock and Main streets in DUMBO. There was, however, no immediate announcement of which of the anonymous “team” entries revealed in June was the [...]

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Developers For John Street Condos Announced

By on August 4, 2013 9:08 am in brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Real Estate

Our man with a cam Karl Junkersfeld reports on the developers chosen for DUMBO’s John Street condos. And yes, he talks about the controversy over housing in the park.

Read the full story at The Brooklyn Bugle.

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 31, 2013 11:55 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Nature, Parents, Theater

There’s action for naturophiles at Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend. On Saturday, August 3, starting at 9:30 a.m., on Pier 1, there will be a Birds, Bugs, and Bees tour, and on Sunday, August 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. there will be Seining the River Wild near the Main Street entrance to the Park [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 19, 2013 1:00 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, Fun, Kids, Literature, movies, Music, Nature

Saturday is the annual City of Water Day, and Brooklyn Bridge Park has several events planned to celebrate it. There will be kayaking from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. between piers 1 and 2. From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Pier 6 there will be a Wildlife Theater performance that should appeal to kids, A [...]

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Test Version–Not Open to Public–of East River Floating Pool to Arrive Next Month

By on July 12, 2013 11:50 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, News

Remember our post two years ago about a proposal to build a floating swimming pool that would use filtered East River water and be located off the DUMBO section of Brooklyn Bridge Park? If you’re like me, you thought,”Great idea, but good luck making it happen.” Now it seems the promoters of the idea, led [...]

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4th of July Photos: Celebrations in Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 5, 2013 10:46 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, Fireworks, Fun, Maritime, Photos, Sports

Despite the heat and humidity, many people were out enjoying the holiday. The Picnic Peninsula, near the landward side of Pier 5, was crowded. Every grill was in use. There were plenty of customers lined up for ice cream at the Ample Hills Creamery concession, Pier 5. The Hudson River sloop Clearwater was docked at [...]

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Waterfowl at Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on June 30, 2013 11:34 pm in brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Nature, Photos

Brooklyn Bridge Park has become an attraction for migratory birds. Several American black ducks have settled, at least temporarily, along the stream that follows the landward side of Pier 1. Over the past few weekends, I’ve seen them every time I’ve crossed a footbridge over that stream. In the photo above, one appears to be [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 20, 2013 12:35 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Celebrity Residents, DUMBO, Events, Fun, Gardening, Kids, movies, Music, Nature, Parents

On Saturday (June 22) from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a book launch and talk by Philip F. Napoli, author of Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City’s Vietnam Veterans. In BHS’s words: Join us for a discussion from the author and a remarkable group [...]

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