Our man with cam gives us views of fireworks, festivities and food on a New Year’s Eve and following morning, spanning Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Heights, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. Continue Reading →
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L Magazine has surveyed Brooklyn’s multitude of blocks, and named its fifty best in various categories. Two blocks completely, and one partially, in the Heights made the cut. The winner in the “Best Block for Historical Significance” class is Montague Terrace (see photo above).
On this day in 1776, what would prove to be the largest battle of the Revolutionary War happened just to the east of Brooklyn Heights, which was then the site of the principal encampment of the Continental Army on Long Island. The battle was originally called the Battle of Long Island, as much of it took place outside the boundaries of what was then Brooklyn, though some contemporary historians have taken to calling it the Battle of Brooklyn, or even the Battle of Brooklyn Heights. In it, the American forces were soundly defeated, with considerable loss of life, though in its aftermath, the surviving Continental troops made an escape that seemed miraculous. Continue Reading →
L Magazine Names Three Brooklyn Heights Blocks Among Borough’s 50 Best
BHB photo by C. Scales
L Magazine has surveyed Brooklyn’s multitude of blocks, and named its fifty best in various categories. Two blocks completely, and one partially, in the Heights made the cut. The winner in the “Best Block for Historical Significance” class is Montague Terrace (see photo above).
It was here, way back in 1776 at the “Battle” of Brooklyn, that George Washington staged the evacuation of his army to Manhattan, allowing it to survive for another day, insuring that we’d one day drive on the right side of the road.
(Despite the snarky quotation marks, there really was a Battle of Brooklyn; indeed, it was the largest battle of the Revolutionary War. What happened in the Heights was its aftermath.) If there had been a category for literary significance, Montague Terrace could have won there, too, having been home to both W.H. Auden, who wrote New Year Letter at One Montague Terrace, and Thomas Wolfe, whose novel, Of Time and the River took shape two doors away at Number Five. Also, of course, Montague Terrace has featured as the gateway to hell, a distinction L bestows on Central Avenue between Moffat and Knollwood Cemetery, in Bushwick. Continue Reading →
Missing Cat
This in from a BHB reader:
Scarlett is a long haired tortoiseshell (tan, brown, caramel, black) female cat, about 6 years old, weighing around 9 pounds. She was last seen at Bergen and Bond Streets in Boerum Hill on 9/21/2010
There is a REWARD for her return.
Please contact Alec at 917.972.0217
or erinbenim@gmail.com
Update: Good news! Scarlett is safe at home. Owner Erin gives this account:
Turns out Scarlett had fallen four stories down a heating duct, and then lurked in the basement duct system silently for 7 days without food or water. We had duct experts and contractors come and look last week, and they couldn’t find her. Finally last night she started to meow, and after taking apart the ducts even more, we got to take her to the emergency room where they proclaimed her merely dehydrated! She got her subcutaneous fluids, a bath, and was sent home where she is purring, meowing, eating ravenously, and sleeping off her trauma. Making it all even more incredible, the duct specialist, Tony, came all the way from Queens AFTER HOURS, refused to accept payment, and then topped it off by driving us to the emergency vet clinic. We’re calling him St. Anthony!
Washington Was Here, 234 Years Ago
BHB photo by C. Scales
Boring? New, Lengthy Tunnel Idea Proposed for BQE
Cobble Hill community activist Roy Sloane has proposed re-routing the BQE through what would be the longest highway tunnel in North America, taking it from the Navy Yard, under parts of Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, and Boerum Hill, to the Prospect Expressway.
YourNabe.com: The extraordinarily ambitious two-and-a-half-mile tunnel is one of several options for replacing the beleaguered highway that is being considered by the state Department of Transportation, but it is already emerging as a favorite. Continue Reading →
Save Our Buses Protest!
Save Our Buses Protest, 06/22/10 photo by Kathryn Kirk
Here’s the official press release from Brooklyn Beep Markowitz on today’s protest regarding cuts to the B51, B39 and other bus routes: Continue Reading →
Neil Freeman’s “Brooklyn Typology”: the Borough as Art
Neil Freeman is an urban planner, artist, and Brooklyn resident. His work appears on his website, fake is the new real. Thanks to Urban Omnibus, we’ve been alerted to a project of Freeman’s that should be of interest to all Brooklynites, including Heights residents. This is his “Brooklyn Typology. ” In Freeman’s words:
Brookyn Typology is an investigation of borough’s population and urban form. It consists of 2100 photographs taken in a sample of blockgroups in Brooklyn, plus detailed Census, historical, and typological data about the residential and housing in area. Together, the interlinked photographs and
data form a portrait of the urban fabric of Brooklyn.
Two of the “blockgroups” included in “Brooklyn Typology” are in the Heights: tract 3.01, blockgroup 1, consisting of the area bounded by Pineapple Street on the north, Hicks Street on the east, Pierrepont Street on the south, and Willow Street on the west; and tract 5, blockgroup 2 bounded by Pierrepont on the north, Clinton Street on the east, Joralemon Street on the south, and Henry Street on the west. Continue Reading →
Mr. Junkersfeld’s Neighborhood and Beyond
Brooklyn Heights own version of D.A. Pennebaker, Karl Junkersfeld is back with more of his unique kind of video vérité. In this first clip he celebrates NYC Restaurant Week.
After the jump his epic three part tour of Fort Greene, a must-see for anyone who dreams to venture beyond the boundaries of Brooklyn Heights. Continue Reading →
Swizzle Hits Big Bell House Stage
Former Magnetic Field mainstay Dick Swizzle will be hosting his Sudden Death Game Show Tuesday night (6/16) on the big stage at the Bell House [149 7th Street].
TMBG Free Concert in Prospect Park July 11
According to The Brooklyn Paper, They Might Be Giants will be playing a free show in Prospect Park on July 11. Read more at CHB.
Spring at Tres Belle
Tres Belle petite medi-spa, relocated recently from 43 Clark St. (inside the Eastern Athletic club) to new digs in Boerum Hill at 105 Bond Street and offers a range of therapeutic treatments including laser hair removal, microdermabrasion, facials and more. Read more at CHB.
Bloomberg: Federal Stimulus $$ to Fund Bridge Renovation
According to today’s Brooklyn Paper:
With $261 million of federal transportation funding from the so-called “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” headed to New York City, Hizzoner said on Monday that he would use the cash to complete major shovel-ready projects including long-planned renovations of the Brooklyn Bridge — while redeploying the city money that had been allotted for the jobs to other infrastructure projects.
Other Brooklyn projects that the Mayor said will benefit include the improvement of the Flatbush Avenue streetscape between Tillary Street and Hanson Place, and reconstruction of the Coney Island Boardwalk.
Hope Floats
Melanie Hope Greenberg — 32-year Brooklyn Heights resident and a longtime author/illustrator of children’s books — is on tour, and if her fans at PS 58 are any indication, she’s a rock star.
Greenberg — who was named to The BHB 10 last year — gets inspiration for her books from the neighborhood around her, and for her latest book, “Mermaids on Parade,” focuses on the annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.
And so there she was, on Tuesday morning in the snow, reading her book to first and second graders at PS 58 in Carroll Gardens, who couldn’t stop squealing with delight whenever they saw pictures of the boardwalk or the Cyclone. Continue Reading →
Marty’s Funny… Funny How?
(Note: This article is meant to be read with a nice glass of chianti and maybe a calzone…a little Sinatra music wouldn’t hurt.)
Okay, I’m gonna try and avoid as many Goodfellas/Sopranos/Godfather references here as I can, but what is up with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and “this thing of ours?”
As reported yesterday in the New York Daily News, Marty, his predecessor Howard Golden and Federal Judge Jack Weinstein, (the Kosher Nostra), gave a Carroll Gardens (Red Hook) restaurant owner (mobster), a pass for paying tribute to a made member of the Gambino Crime Family.
Joseph Chirico, owner of Marco Polo (or as we say in Brooklyn, Marco Polo’s) Italian Restaurant, was facing up to a year “away at school” for forking over $1,500 to the Family. However, the Kosher Nostra flipped for Chirico! Can the calamari be THAT good? Continue Reading →
Two Trees Caught “Red Handed”
Cobble Hill Association President Jeff Strabone has foiled Two Trees’ attempt to disguise height-limit-busting cabana penthouses at 194 Atlantic Avenue as “stair bulkheads”. Read more at Cobble Hill Blog.
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Open Thread: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Fun, Food & Wine at Brooklyn Heights’ Willowtown Fair
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Fun at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Heights’ Downtown Neighbor Reclaims Residential Rights
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
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Brooklyn Heights Rallies For Montague Street Retail Corridor
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Montague Street Revitalization Continues With Launch Of Ruby And Jenna
- Image Of The Day: Hiccup, Belch… Mother’s Day 2012 Post-Mortem
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Subway Service Alerts: This Weekend and The Following Week
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Brooklyn Heights Cinema At 70 Henry Street To Be Razed, After All
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