This is obviously an old photo, as it includes two now defunct restaurants; one of which is still mourned by your correspondent and by many others. The thing I want to point out, though, is the blue object on the sidewalk between a trash barrel and the back end of the motor scooter. Like the […]
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Community Board 2 Wants Your Views on City Funding Priorities
Brooklyn Community Board 2, which represents Community District 2, that includes Brooklyn Heights, along with all 59 community boards in the City, is conducting a survey of residents’ views on funding priorities. The results of these surveys will be used by each community board to produce a Community District Needs Statement which will be presented to the mayor, […]
If you didn’t love yours, time for a redo—go and see The PROM
Whether we were a Prom King, a Solid Gold Dancer or a Wallflower, we can’t look away from our prom. You can go home again, though, with the Heights Players. Their kick off show of the season—beginning September 6th and running weekends through September 22nd– is The Prom. Four fading stars. One girl’s prom dream. […]
From the Team Behind Henry’s End: Jules, a Pizzeria, Coming to Henry Street
When Fifty Henry Wine Bar closed last December, the neighborhood was promised that the “closure marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter” and that “a fresh and new dining experience” was coming. Finally, that time has come! In a couple of weeks or so, Jules, a pizzeria, will be opening at 50 Henry […]
Kids’ Crafts Event at Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Wednesday
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 14, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 137 Montague Street, will host an event in which kids of all ages (those under seven must be accompanied by an adult) can learn to make beaded friendship bracelets. There is a suggested donation of five dollars; registration is not required.
The Party Will Go On At Alice’s Tea Cup
Mad For Chicken may have flown the coop, but Alice’s Tea Cup won’t go down the rabbit hole; at least not anytime soon. As reported by Eater, the chain of whimsical tea-and-pastries shops, which has locations on the Upper East and West sides and in Brooklyn Heights, at 43 Hicks Street (corner of Middagh), and which was near […]
Another Brooklyn Heights Residence Vandalized
Update: Mary Frost, in the Eagle, has more information, including the responses by City Councilmember Lincoln Restler and by the Brooklyn Heights Association. As reported by ABC7, an apartment building on Orange Street that is home to Columbia University’s Chief Operating Officer, Cas Holloway, was vandalized with red triangles painted on the door and each side of the doorway, and red […]
Arrest Made in Vandalism of Hicks Street Residence of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak
As we noted on June 12, vandals attacked the entrance to the Mansion House apartment building, 145 Hicks Street, home of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak. “The front of the building was defaced with red paint, inverted red triangles were painted on the doors, and [there was] hung up a banner that said ‘Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White-Supremacist […]
Charlie Mitchell, Named New York’s Best Chef, Leaving Brooklyn Heights for Manhattan
Charlie Mitchell (photo), whom the James Beard Foundation named Best Chef In New York, is leaving Clover Hill, 20 Columbia Place, the restaurant that, under his direction, earned Brooklyn Heights its first Michelin Star. According to Eater he will go to Saga, at 70 Pine Street in Manhattan’s Financial District. Since Michelin Stars are awarded to restaurants, not to individual chefs, we presume […]
Atlantic Avenue Safety Improvements Finally Coming, Thanks to Advocates and Electeds
The long awaited and fiercely advocated-for safety improvements are finally coming to Atlantic Avenue, according to a report by Mary Frost in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The neighborhood has seen horribly tragic accidents on Atlantic Avenue, the latest taking the life of Katherine Harris, 31, last year. Harris was crossing Atlantic Avenue at Clinton Street, when […]
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