This wondrous 1905 image shows Brooklyn Heights looking northwest up what was then known as Columbia Street. The background reveals nearly the entire span of the Brooklyn Bridge. In the upper right corner of the photo is the renowned Hotel Margaret, between Orange and Cranberry Streets, which was built in 1889 as the neighborhood’s “first skyscraper”; unfortunately, it burned down during a 1980 renovation. Continue Reading →
Heights History: A Magnificent 1905 View Looking Up ‘Columbia Street’
Mother’s Day Roses
For all you Brooklyn Heights moms, including Mrs. Fink and my sweetie, it’s your day. Enjoy! Continue Reading →
Rainy Days & Wednesdays…
Wednesday, Montague Street entrance to Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Continue Reading →
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One World Trade Center (Again) Surpasses Empire State Building As New York City’s Tallest Structure
New York couple Michael & Danielle take in the view from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on the day national headlines proclaimed that One World Trade has surpassed the height of the Empire State Building—to once again become New York City’s tallest building. With its unfinished frame, the structure now stands at just over 1,250 feet high.
It will be at least another year before the tower—which broke ground five long years ago in 2006—reaches its full height of 1,776 feet Continue Reading →
Enterprise Over The Heights
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, aboard a NASA 747, appears over the Brooklyn Heights skyline this morning on its way to JFK Aiport, and eventually the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. (Photo: M. Hermann/BHB) Continue Reading →
Brooklyn Heights Promenade Paradise
With temps tickling the mid-70s over the weekend, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was teeming with tourists and locals taking in the consummate view of Lower Manhattan. Wowsah!
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Is Brooklyn Heights Walkable? Part II
It appears your BHB correspondents had the same idea, following our post about The L Magazine naming Brooklyn Heights among New York City’s Most Walkable neighborhoods. With camera in hand, I ambled from end to end along the Heights Promenade, showcasing how “L” got this one right. With Claude Scales’ pics taken across a wide swath of the the nabe, alongside these, we’ve got every color of the rainbow to enjoy in our beautiful locale. Continue Reading →
Is Brooklyn Heights Walkable? You Bet!
I decided to take my own advice as well as test the theory L Magazine proposed, as reported here by Chuck Taylor. I had an errand to run at the Greenmarket, but I decided to go there, with camera, by a circuitous route, down the Promenade and Squibb Hill to Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, then up the hill to Middagh Street, then to Cadman Plaza Park, across to the Greenmarket, then back by way of Remsen Street. The flowering cherry tree in the photo is at the north end of the Promenade. More photos follow the jump. Continue Reading →
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Image Of The Day: Sunny Sunday
Brooklyn Heights Zombie Invasion!
Filming for a New York Lottery commercial continued throughout the afternoon Tuesday March 20, in front of Banana Republic at 133 Montague Street. This morning, Heights resident Rick Elkin shared with BHB that the action was focused on a vehicle with smashed windshield and a felled lamp-post. Ouch! Continue Reading →
Mockingbird
Another harbinger of a spring that has arrived early, this migrant from the South was spotted between Piers 1 and 2, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, resting on a branch of what appears to be sumac, with drupes. Click on photo to enlarge.
Bloomin’ Brooklyn Heights
Early spring-like weather has been propitious for flowering plants, both in gardens and window boxes, around the Heights. The flowers in the photo at left are in front of the residence of garden designer Catherine Fitzsimmons on Joralemon Street between Hicks and Willow Place. More photos and text after the jump. Continue Reading →
A Sentimental Stroll Through Downtown Brooklyn
It wasn’t until I worked for the U.S. Census Bureau between February and August 2010 that I truly discovered Brooklyn. While I had lived in Brooklyn Heights for a decade, my compass always seemed to point toward Manhattan, where I worked and played. [See Photo gallery below the jump]
But with the Census gig, I had the opportunity to discover on a block-by-block (if not door-to-door) basis more than I ever realized was just east of the Heights: Sunset Park, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and—my favorite—Downtown Brooklyn.
Strolling through Fulton Mall every day on the way to the Census office on Flatbush Avenue as it was just beginning mass renewal, the sidewalks were widened, new bus stands and street lights installed, streets were repaved and repositioned for bus traffic only. The age-old Fulton Mall sign came down… Something big was happening here. Continue Reading →
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