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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 9, 2013 3:30 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Other Brooklyn, Parents

The premier event this weekend is the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual House Tour, to be held on Saturday afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00. More information is here. The photo is by Heights resident and interior designer Judith Angel. On Sunday afternoon, starting at 1:00, the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a lecture and book signing [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 2, 2013 11:43 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Fulton Ferry Historic District, movies, Music

Saturday is Derby Day. So, if the thunder of hoofbeats quickens your pulse, and if you’re not attending a friend’s party or hosting your own, you may want to go to a local TV-equipped bar to enjoy the race. According to ProspectHeightsPatch, Floyd, 131 Atlantic Avenue (between Clinton and Henry), will be serving beer cheese, [...]

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More Photos From My Walks; Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 29, 2013 9:40 pm in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Food, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Maritime, Photos, Sports, Visual Arts

A floral display on a stoop on Henry Street between Joralemon and Remsen. Photos in this post are from several walks over the past two weekends. A colorful row of townhouses on Joralemon between Hicks and Furman. Sand volleyball season has started on Pier 6. South Street Seaport Museum’s schooner Pioneer, seen from Pier 6. [...]

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St. Ann’s Warehouse Again Seeking Approval to Build in Tobacco Warehouse

By on April 18, 2013 11:15 pm in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Government, Landmark Preservation, News

You may recall the lengthy legal battle over the St. Ann’s Warehouse theater’s attempt to build a new performance space inside the 19th century Tobacco Warehouse in the Fulton Ferry Historic District, which led to a court decision holding that the transfer of the Tobacco Warehouse space from Brooklyn Bridge Park had not been done [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 11, 2013 12:08 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Food, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Fun, movies, Music

Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) this weekend will be showing The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling as a motorcycle stunt rider who turns to robbery to support his lover (Eva Mendes) and their child, and Bradley Cooper as the ambitious detective who pursues him. The Cinema is also continuing [...]

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Some Afternoon Walk Photos: Fulton Ferry, DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Brooklyn Heights

By on April 1, 2013 11:34 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Gardening, Photos

This past Saturday I took an afternoon walk to DUMBO to get some Jacques Torres Easter chocolates for my wife and daughter. Although the day was chilly, the sun was bright, and people were using the outdoor tables and chairs on the plaza at Old Fulton street in the Fulton Ferry Historic District. Jacques Torres [...]

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BBP Concessions: Somethings Old; Something Moved; Somethings New; Somethings Gone

By on February 20, 2013 10:09 pm in brooklyn bridge park, DUMBO, Food, Fulton Ferry Historic District

Brooklyn Bridge Park announced a lineup of concessionaires for the Park this coming spring and summer. Returning to Pier 1 will be the Brooklyn Bridge Wine Bar and Blue Marble Ice Cream. Calexico Carne Asada (photo), which was missing last summer, will return, but to a new location, the Main and Plymouth streets entrance to [...]

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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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Taxis Collide on Furman

By on January 11, 2013 6:00 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Ferry Historic District, News, Traffic, Transportation

Two taxis and a charter bus were involved in an accident on Furman St. at Doughty St. around 5:30 p.m. Friday. Both cabbies suffered only minor injuries, but the accident, coupled with the rainy weather, made rush hour traffic on Old Fulton St. more hectic than usual.  (Photo: M. Hermann/BHB)

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on January 9, 2013 11:53 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Fulton Ferry Historic District, movies, Music

This is a pretty quiet weekend for events locally, following the busy holiday season. Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) is showing Promised Land, a Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) film, starring Matt Damon, about the fracking controversy that’s a hot topic in Albany right now. Also at the Cinema [...]

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