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
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. […]
Taxis Collide on Furman
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)
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
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 […]
Christmas Eve Morning Walk Photos, With Tugboats
Yesterday was a good day for a walk, so I did a circuit around the northern part of Brooklyn Heights, including a side trip into Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO, where I did a little last minute Christmas shopping. The photo above–more photos and text follow–is of a wreath on the red door at 33 […]
Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Photo Essay
Aside from the official Brooklyn Bridge Park website, Curbed offers the most thorough wrap-up of pics we’ve seen of BBP’s progress to date in the webbie’s new Camera Obscura feature. The essay from Nathan Kensinger also includes a fine narrative on the 85-acre park’s history and all that is still developing.
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