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Five Acre Farms Founder/CEO Dan Horan In The Running For SlowMoney Entrepreneur Prize

By on April 23, 2013 6:13 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Food, Profiles

Longtime Brooklyn Heights resident Dan Horan, Founder/CEO of Five Acre Farms—who was profiled by BHB in 2011—is a finalist for Slow Money USA’s Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The $50k winner will be announced at the 4th Slow Money National Gathering April 29-30 in Boulder, Colo. Slow Money is a funder of local [...]

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Quote Of The Day: Joe Lhota’s Favorite NYC Destination

By on April 1, 2013 8:40 am in Brooklyn Heights, Profiles, Transportation

Joe Lhota, who departed his post as MTA chairman three months ago to launch a Republican campaign to run City Hall, is the subject of a Q&A in the New York Daily News. The Brooklyn Heights resident and BHB Ten 2012 member is the Bronx-born son of a cop and the grandson of a firefighter [...]

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I’ll Drink To That: Red Gravy’s Cocktail Specialties Perused

By on February 14, 2013 4:22 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Food, Profiles

Serious Eats peruses the cocktail specialties at Red Gravy, Saul Bolton’s acclaimed restaurant at 151 Atlantic Avenue that opened in December. In Eats’ “First Look” column, beverage director Jesse Cason notes: “Italians have thirsts that match their appetite. They believe wine and spirits are integral to their enjoyment of their native cuisine. We like to [...]

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Romance On Brooklyn Heights’ Love Lane

By on February 14, 2013 4:07 pm in Brooklyn Heights, History, Profiles, Streets

In a Valentine’s story titled “Road to Happiness: Brooklyn’s Love Lane lives up to its name,” The New York Daily News offers two neighborhood tales of romance. Jim & Patricia Aliperti share how they met nearly 40 years ago, while George Heusinger talks about his nearly 40-plus-year romance with late partner, William. The Alipertis live [...]

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Lena Dunham Develops New HBO Series, Covers EW

By on February 1, 2013 4:59 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Comedy, News, Profiles

Lena Dunham’s empire continues to blow the lid off pop culture, as she covers the February 8, 2013 Entertainment Weekly with the headline, “How (She) Became the Voice Of A Generation.” Add that to the news that the “Girls” creator and Brooklyn Heights rez will pen a new pilot for HBO based on the upcoming [...]

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‘Truth in Advertising’ Author John Kenney Likes The Heights

By on January 22, 2013 7:42 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Literature, Profiles

Brooklyn Heights’ writer & author John Kenney’s debut novel “Truth in Advertising” was released this week by A-list publisher Simon and Schuster. The book explores the fictional life of a modern day ad pro—after Kenney worked as a copywriter in NYC for 17 years and as a New Yorker magazine contributor since 1999. It was [...]

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MNS Report Reveals Brooklyn Heights’ Lofty Rental Market—Behind W’burg And DUMBO

By on January 17, 2013 8:57 am in Brooklyn Heights, Profiles, Real Estate

A December 2012 Brooklyn Rental Market Report from MNS reveals that apartments have become so expensive in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that they’re pushing folks back to Manhattan—to such neighborhoods as the Financial District, the Upper East Side east of Third Avenue and Harlem. In Brooklyn Heights, meanwhile, the average studio rental came in at $1,973, fourth [...]

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Gothamist Weighs In On Atlantic Avenue’s Red Gravy Restaurant

By on January 12, 2013 3:59 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Food, Profiles

Saul Bolton’s new eatery, Red Gravy, which opened at 151 Atlantic Avenue in December, got props from the Zagat Blog earlier this week. Now Gothamist weighs in, also offering some keen pics and the dinner menu. Gothamist: “Chef Saul Bolton, the talented toque who runs Saul, one of the first Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, has [...]

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Historian & ‘Brooklyn Heights Press’ Editor Henrik Krogius To Retire

By on December 29, 2012 12:39 am in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, News, Profiles, Seniors

Emmy-award winning news producer & 22-year editor of the Brooklyn Heights Press Henrik Krogius has announced his retirement, reports the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. At the helm of the 75-year-old Brooklyn Heights Press and Cobble Hill News weekly, “Krogius chronicled the neighborhood’s change from a insular, Manhattan-oriented world to its present day as part of a [...]

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Goose Barnacle’s David Alperin Talks Turkey About Being A Heights Native

By on December 12, 2012 4:00 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Profiles, Shopping

Fourth-generation Brooklyn Heights resident & owner of Atlantic Avenue’s menswear store/art gallery Goose Barnacle David Alperin, is profiled in Brooklyn Magazine. He tells the pub, “I’m an old-fashioned retailer. I don’t want to lose the fact that I’m a part of this Brooklyn neighborhood.” Brooklyn Mag adds, “Visiting Goose Barnacle is like stepping back into [...]

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