Brooklyn Heights Blog

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It’s ba-aaaaack!  Kernel panic returned to the UA Cinemas at 106 Court St. tonight in an incident nearly identical to one that happened last month. Read more »

Next Wednesday and Thursday, July 29 and 30, a number of Brooklyn Heights shops will participate in the Shop Brooklyn Boutique Fashion Nights.

The shops will remain open to 10 p.m. and each shop will feature discount offerings, a designer and wine and cheese.

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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].

Oenophiles rejoice. The door was open, the bartender was pouring, and customers were enjoying their drinks and conversation at the new Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar, at Henry and Cranberry, on Thursday evening.

Looking for something fun to do, while supporting a good cause? The Junior League of Brooklyn — based here on Pierrepont Street — is hosting a Happy Hour and Food Drive on Thursday, April 30 at Franklin Park, in Crown Heights (which, we will note, is a very cool bar).

The fundraiser is for CHIPS, a soup kitchen and pantry in Park Slope, and will offer happy hour drink specials, free tapas and cupcakes, and music. Bring one canned good for free admission. To RSVP, email jrlrsvp AT gmail.com, and a flyer with more information is attached [pdf].

The fundraiser runs from 6:30 to 10 pm at Franklin Park, 618 Saint Johns Pl., between Franklin and Classon avenues. Take 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Avenue, and walk two blocks north and turn left.

According to this notice posted in the window of the ex-Spicy Pickle, soon-to-be Armando’s reborn location, Community Board 2’s Health, Environment and Social Services Committee invites public comment on the application of Peter Byros Enterprises, Inc. for a Beer/Wine & Liquor license at the Committee’s next meeting, to be held on April 1 at 6:00pm, at Brooklyn Hospital Center, 121 Dekalb Avenue, 3rd Floor, Conference Rooms 3A and 3B.

The annual Dine in Brooklyn week begins on March 23, and five Brooklyn Heights restaurants will be participating.

Between March 23 and April 2, diners can get a three-course meal for $23 at nearly 200 of the borough best’s restaurants. And, some restaurants are offering brunch for $23 per couple, including Café Buon Gusto and Eamonn’s.
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Construction is moving full-steam ahead at the future Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar at 50 Henry St., and owner Mark Lahm said he’s pushing for an April 1 opening date.

The Department of Buildings still has to make final approvals, Lahm said, but he is in the space each day, creating the wine and tapas menu, and sorting out construction and the security system.
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The hip café and music venue Tea Lounge could come to Brooklyn Heights later this year, pending building permit and liquor license approval, its owner told the Brooklyn Heights Blog today.

Jonathan Spiel, who also owns Tea Lounge cafés in Park Slope and Cobble Hill, has his eye on a 4,000-square-foot hotspot at in the St. George Tower building, and hopes to bring in his concoction of a daytime café-turned-full bar and music venue at night to the neighborhood.
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Next Wednesday morning you may wake up with a hangover from an election victory celebration or from drowning your sorrows in Scotch, but by the evening you may be ready to party again, and to learn something in the process. Perhaps something important about the environment, which, depending on the outcome of the election, and your views, may finally be about to receive the attention it deserves, or too much attention, or not enough. If you’re game, you should plan to attend Secret Science Club at the Bell House, 149 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, in Gowanus. This edition of SSC will feature Tyler Volk, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the NYU Environmental Studies Program, whose latest book is CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge. Tyler is also a guitarist and vocalist for The Amygdaloids. Read more »