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Brooklyn Bridge Rehab Update: No Lane Closings This Weekend

by Claude Scales on 02. Sep, 2010 in News, Transportation

This in from the folks at Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation:

Over the upcoming long weekend, the Brooklyn Bridge will not be closed to Manhattan-bound traffic, or operating Brooklyn-bound detours between the hours of 6 am on Friday, September 3 through to 11 pm on Tuesday, September 7.

In addition, a special construction embargo is in effect for the 9/11 ceremony. All non-emergency work on the Brooklyn Bridge and all approach roadway lane closures is suspended from 3 pm on Friday, September 10 through to 11:59 pm on Saturday, September 11, 2010. (more…)

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Atlantic Tunnel’s Bob Diamond Shipping Out

by Heather Quinlan on 02. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

Photo via mcbrooklyn

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that tours of the Atlantic Avenue tunnel are done. Mcbrooklyn adds that the Atlantic Tunnel hero Bob Diamond is leaving Brooklyn, possibly because he can’t fight Borough Hall. Though he found the oldest subway tunnel in the world right underneath Atlantic Avenue, he has been unable to get the ok to tear down the underground wall he believes hides its train. (more…)

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Newsweek Writer with Brooklyn Heights Connection Ponders Downtown Mosque

by Homer Fink on 02. Sep, 2010 in News

Newsweek writer Ben Adler discusses the controversy surrounding the planned mosque near Ground Zero and mentions the influence of churches in his native Park Slope and near St. Ann’s where he went to school:

Newsweek: Perhaps my favorite is Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, its unadorned, modest New England Congregationalist architecture a striking, peaceful counterpoint to the Victorian grandeur of its surrounding neighborhood. Plymouth was the home of the great abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a stop on the Underground Railroad.

And then there is St. Ann’s, the Episcopal congregation that incubated my progressive high school, and still lends its large and riveting, if somewhat worn-out, space to the school for major events. There, in the pews, under the stained-glass windows, were the sources of some of my fondest and most poignant memories of high school: a teacher leading us all in an acoustic rendition of The Wall by Pink Floyd at the annual Christmas assembly, a recent memorial service for a social-studies teacher who mentored me.

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Brooklyn Heights People: Doug Biviano

by Julie Kanfer on 01. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights, Election 10, Government

Doug Biviano

Ask State Assembly Candidate Doug Biviano about himself, and the first thing he’ll say is he’s a P.S. 8 parent who was born and raised in Brooklyn. Then, almost as if to prove it, he’ll ask the waitress at Heights Café to bring him a Brooklyn Brewery beer. (more…)

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Cop Who Denied CPR to Asthmatic Girl is from the 84th Precinct

by Homer Fink on 01. Sep, 2010 in Cobble Hill, News

Today we learn that the scoundrel who smirked, “I don’t do CPR” as 11 year old Briana Ojeda lay dying of an asthma attack Sunday in Cobble Hill, has been identified as NYPD officer Alfonso Mendez from our very own 84th Precinct. He has been suspended and faces termination: (more…)

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Open Thread Wednesday 9/1/10

by Homer Fink on 01. Sep, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

Flickr photo by jessekalim

It’s September already! Comment away!!

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84th Precinct Police Blotter – 8/31/10

by Heather Quinlan on 31. Aug, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

Ladies’ handbags can’t stay still; Equinox fills the void left by Planet Fitness; and a thief makes off with a $700 vibrator. It’s this week’s blotter.

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Freegans at Perelandra – Brilliant Conservationists or Dirty Hippies?

by Homer Fink on 29. Aug, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights

In a Gothamist post linking to the NY Times coverage of the Williamsburg freegans today, one commenter mentions the group of freegans who rummage through the trash at Perelandra every night:

There’s a group that goes to Perelandra on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights every night and goes through their garbage looking for food. It seems that Perelandra being aware of this packs it up in boxes specifically for them and places it in the street. I’ve seen them picking out some good looking stuff but there’s no way I would do it.

So, have you seen them recently? Do they bug you, man? Think they’re saving the world?

Nightline covered this group back in 2007.

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Squeezing Out Sparks: Biviano Debates Millman

by Homer Fink on 29. Aug, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights, Election 10

News Corp’s Community Newspaper Group (the Brooklyn Paper, Courier-Life) hosted a debate last week between the two candidates squaring off for the Democratic nomination in the 52nd NYS Assembly District. Incumbent Joan Millman and challenger/ Brooklyn Heights resident Doug Biviano discussed many local issues, but one topic appears to be gaining traction (operative word: “appears”). The issue: Biviano’s accusation that Millman is “double dipping” from the public coffers – one paycheck for her service as a member of the NY Assembly and the other from her NYC teacher’s pension.

The Brooklyn Paper’s recap of the debate and video after the jump: (more…)

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BHB Wins Signage Change, Parking Clarification at 20 Henry

by Claude Scales on 27. Aug, 2010 in Brooklyn Heights, News, Parking, Video

Thanks to a campaign spearheaded by BHB reader my2cents and taken up by our Karl Junkersfeld (who made the video above), the City has installed new, easily visible signs adjacent to 29 Henry Street, which now make it clear that parking is allowed along part of the block except on Wednesdays, when street cleaning is done there.