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New BHA President Alexandra Bowie On LICH, Library and Living In The Heights

By on April 12, 2013 11:25 am in Brooklyn Heights, News, Reader Profiles, Streets

Alexandra Bowie, the newly installed president of the Brooklyn Heights Association (and a Brooklyn Bugle contributor), talks LICH, libraries and other neighborhood issues in a lengthy 2,200+-word Q&A with Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Among highlights: * Mission: BHA’s “most active committees are Traffic, Landmarks and Parks. The issues we work on, traffic, trees, tour buses, rats, [...]

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Renowned Heights’ Resident Amity Shlaes Publishes New Bio On Calvin Coolidge

By on March 4, 2013 4:14 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Literature, News, Reader Profiles

Renowned author, columnist & Brooklyn Heights rez Amity Shlaes, whose 2007 book “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” was widely acclaimed, has just published “Coolidge,” a chronicle of the life of 30th president Calvin Coolidge. She tells webbie Woman Around Town, “Our ignorance of Coolidge hurts more than our understanding of [...]

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BHB Reader Profile: Lauren Jonik

By on December 12, 2012 4:23 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Photography, Reader Profiles

Lauren Jonik, a BHB reader and sometime commenter, has an exhibit of her photographs on display at Vineapple, 71 Pineapple Street (between Henry and Hicks). The exhibit will be in place until the end of December. Jonik, a native of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, loves her adopted home, Brooklyn Heights, and delights in photographing its many architectural [...]

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