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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 5, 2014 10:39 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Kids, movies, Music, Parents, Photos, Poetry, Shopping, Theater

PS 8′s annual Paddlewheeler Block Party is this Saturday, June 7, from noon to 4:00 p.m. on Poplar Street between Henry and Hicks streets. It’s your, and your kids’, chance to meet Elsa the Snow Queen and Anna from Frozen. There will be a bouncy castle, a magic show, face and hair painting, an obstacle [...]

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Never Mind the Chill: Spring is Here!

By on March 27, 2014 4:34 pm in Gardening, Photos

Crocuses (or, if you wish, crocae, or are they croci?) are coming into bloom by the Montague Street entrance to the Promenade (click to enlarge).

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Morning Walk Photos: Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on February 15, 2014 2:35 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Nature, Photos, Weather

The robin is supposed to be a harbinger of spring. “If only!” this one seems to be saying to himself. As I started my morning walk, a few little snowflakes were falling, but as I headed down into Squibb Park and across the bouncy bridge to Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park the flakes got [...]

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A Friendly Face on the Promenade

By on February 6, 2014 2:56 pm in Photos, Visual Arts

Coming up onto the Promenade from the Remsen Street entrance, I was greeted by this welcoming figure (double click on image twice to enlarge). I believe this is a snow woman (see semi-profile photo after the jump). Either that or a snowman with long hair.

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Winter Walk Photos

By on January 25, 2014 10:42 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Photos, Red Hook, Weather

These photos were taken on walks yeterday (Friday) afternoon and this (Saturday) morning. The first was taken from Cadman Plaza East, looking west across Cadman Plaza Park, with lower Manhattan in the background. More photos and text follow the jump. Snowboarding on the slope between Washington Street and the Brooklyn Bridge on-ramp. The Manhattan Bridge [...]

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Fog In Brooklyn Heights

By on January 10, 2014 4:50 pm in Photos, Weather

A view looking north along the Promenade, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. (Another photo after the jump.) Looking out from the Promenade, with Pier 3 in the foreground and the lower Manhattan skyline beyond.

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Let it Snow, Redux

By on December 24, 2013 12:44 am in Gardening, Photos, Weather

Saturday a week ago we had some snow; the following day, before it melted, your correspondent got this photo of some hardy ornamental kale, to which an ornament was attached, outside Dellarocca’s on Hicks Street near Montague. Today’s (Tuesday, December 24) forecast is for snow showers, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and continuing until 7:00 p.m. [...]

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Photos From a Night Walk Through Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on December 17, 2013 12:31 am in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Maritime, Photos

These photos were taken on the evening of Tuesday, December 10. The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931), as seen from Pier 1, was illuminated in blue, in honor of Human Rights Day and Human Rights Watch. Ducks paddling in the spiral cove inland from Pier 2. Pier 5, lit up at night, [...]

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Let it Snow…

By on December 14, 2013 10:59 am in Photos, Weather

This is the view of Pierrepont Place from your correspondent’s window this morning. The precipitation prognostication is that this turns to sleet, then rain, later today or this evening, making for a sloppy, slushy Sunday.

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Autumn in Brooklyn Bridge Park and Brooklyn Heights

By on November 25, 2013 12:06 am in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Gardening, Nature, Photos

Autumn is officially with us for almost another month, but it feels like, to quote a Joni Mitchell song, “winter’s closing in.” I’ve collected here some photos I’ve taken on walks over the past month, mostly in Brooklyn Bridge Park and along the Promenade, showing foliage nearing or at its peak fall dress. Above is [...]

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Obscured By Clouds

By on November 17, 2013 10:11 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Photos, Weather

As seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a low lying cloudbank cut off the upper stories of lower Manhattan buildings, and brought to mind a Pink Floyd album.

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Some Autumn Color at Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on October 18, 2013 12:02 am in brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Nature, Photos

After taking the tour of Pier 5 and the construction zone on Sunday, I headed north to Pier 1. While fall foliage is at its peak upstate, the warmer temperatures here mean it comes later. Still, there were some hints of fall evident along the way, beginning with these staghorn sumac leaves and drupes. The [...]

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A Tour of Pier 5 and Unfinished Parts of Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on October 15, 2013 1:14 pm in Architecture, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Maritime, Photos

Sunday at noon I joined a group of architecture and park enthusiasts for a tour of the completed Pier 5 and the still under construction uplands of Piers 4 and 3. We were led to Pier 5 by Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Senior Project Manager, Leigh Trucks (photo). More photos and text after the jump. As [...]

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The Sights that can be Seen from Brooklyn Heights

By on September 29, 2013 11:30 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Maritime, Photos

This morning I set out early for my walk along the Promenade down to Pier 1 and back. The combination of low, scudding clouds and a sun still low to the eastern horizon created some interesting lighting effects on lower Manhattan buildings. In the photo above (more photos and text after the jump) the top [...]

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Views from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade at Twilight

By on September 3, 2013 2:42 pm in Architecture, Brooklyn Heights, Maritime, Photos

A few evenings ago, your correspondent took a stroll along the Promenade, starting shortly after sunset. A sloop was sailing in the harbor. (More photos and text after the jump.) Shortly after, the South Street Seaport Museum’s historic schooner Pioneer rounded the tip of Manhattan, heading out on an evening cruise. Holding her torch aloft, [...]

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The Watchtower Sign (and Time & Temp) are Back!

By on September 3, 2013 12:05 am in News, Photos

Red-faced update: When I saw the phoro of a similar looking Watchtower building without any sign mounted on its roof, I thought it was this building. It wasn’t, and the sign was there all along. I did wonder how they took it down and put it up again so fast, and why. Thanks to reader [...]

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