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 […]
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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 […]
Free Concert at Brooklyn Bridge Park – Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey – Sat. July 27th at 6 pm
FREE CONCERT | JULY 27 | 6PM | RAIN OR SHINE EMILY WARREN ROEBLING PLAZA UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE featuring Lara Downes, Time for Three, Christian McBride, Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, Arturo O’Farrill, Orchestra Elena & Aram Demirjian St. Ann’s Warehouse, WNYC, and Brooklyn Bridge Park present Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey in Music, […]
Does Brooklyn Heights Have a Record for Sidewalk Shed Duration?
If you count the time a sidewalk shed has been in place at a particular location, not considering that the shed at that location has been replaced several times, I think St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, at Montague and Clinton (photo) may hold the record hands down. I could swear that when I […]
“Movies With A View” Starts Tomorrow Evening With “Past Lives”
This summer’s Movies With A View, presented by Pluto TV, begins tomorrow evening, Thursday, July 11, with Past Lives. This film follows Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, who are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and […]
L&B Spumoni Gardens May Open on Old Fulton in September
The 46 Old Fulton Street location (Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle) of the renowned Gravesend Sicilian pizza restaurant L&B Spumoni Gardens may, according to Mary Frost in the Brooklyn Eagle, open as soon as this September. It was expected to open as long ago as 2020 but, as the Eagle story notes, there have been repeated delays that the owners […]
City Council Legislation May Have Little Effect on Helicopter Noise
In April we noted that the City Council was considering legislation that would ban unnecessary (tourist and charter) helicopter flights, including all such flights to or from the Downtown Heliport directly accross the East River from Brooklyn Heights, and the 34th Street (East Side) Heliport, which generate much traffic that passes above or near the Heights. Now, The […]
Gristedes Penalized for Polluting Air
“Grosstedes” indeed! As reported by The Eagle’s staff, Gristedes, “owned by billionaire mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis,” has been levied a civil penalty of $400,000 and ordered to spend $13.5 million to bring its refrigeration equipment at its twenty New York City stores, including the one facing Henry Street, up to standard. The grocery chain “admitted […]
BQE Single Lane Closures to Continue Through July
We’ve been advised by Anita Navalurkar of the Department of Transportation that single lane closures of the BQE Central, the portion below Brooklyn Heights, will continue through July. One Queens bound lane will be closed unil July 31st from Atlantic Avenue to Washington Street Monday through Friday from 12:01 AM to 5:00 AM; Saturday from […]
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