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FASCINATING: Just-Released 1940 Census Data Reveals Who Lived In Your Digs

FASCINATING: Just-Released 1940 Census Data Reveals Who Lived In Your Digs

By on April 4, 2012 2:05 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Fun, History, Seniors

Ever wondered who was cooking pot roast on your antique stove in 1940? Who hid that stamp beneath the floorboards when you were gutting your Willow Street coop bedroom? How much that Middagh Street apartment cost to rent 70 years ago? Now’s your chance to find out. In partnership with Archives.com, the U.S. National Archives released Census records from 1940 online on April 2—comprising 3.8 million images scanned from some 4,000 rolls of microfilm.

The website offers access to maps and hand-written info about every known address in all 48 states in the Union, allowing you to find census maps and descriptions to locate an enumeration district, browse census images to locate any household interviewed in the 1940 Census and then save and/or download images. Continue Reading →

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BHA Issues Last Minute Appeal for Pies

By on November 23, 2011 8:48 am in Events, Food, Seniors

This in from the Brooklyn Heights Association:

Dear Friends: In a last minute appeal, we hope that you will consider making (or buying) a pie for the Thanksgiving Dinner served to elderly citizens at Grace Church. It is organized by Heights and Hills, a provider of supportive services to community dwelling older adults in Brooklyn. Continue Reading →

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Brooklyn Heights Resident Lois Osborne Celebrates 99th Birthday

By on October 9, 2011 3:01 pm in Events, Seniors


Monroe Place resident Lois Osborne prepares to blow out the candles at Grace Church this morning. She will be 99 tomorrow, Monday, October 10.

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Accessible Pedestrian Signals coming to Brooklyn

By on September 29, 2011 10:39 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Seniors, Streets, Traffic, Transportation

As reported in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, accessible pedestrian signals will be installed at a number of major intersections throughout Brooklyn to make the streets easier and safer for seniors and people with visual impairments.  Notably, many of these devices will be in the downtown Brooklyn area.  Perhaps of most relevance to the BHB community, there will be an accessible pedestrian signal installed at the corner of Court Street and Montague Street. Continue Reading →

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Local Pols Plead for Senior Center Funds

By on March 7, 2011 5:43 pm in Government, News, Seniors

Local politicians, including Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assembly Member Joan Millman, and City Council Member Stephen Levin, have signed a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo urging that funds for senior centers in New York City, including the St. Charles Jubilee Center at 55 Pierrepont Street, which is threatened with closing, be restored to the budget. The text of the letter follows the jump. Continue Reading →

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Cuomo Budget May Shut St. Charles Senior Center

By on March 4, 2011 11:44 pm in Government, Seniors

The St. Charles Jubilee Senior Center at 55 Pierrepont Street, a gathering place for Brooklyn Heights seniors fo many years, may be forced to close as of April 1 because it has been denied funding under Governor Cuomo’s budget. Continue Reading →

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Heights and Hills Surveying Area Seniors

By on November 21, 2010 11:37 pm in Seniors

Heights and Hills Community Council, an organization “committed to improving the quality of life of older residents of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill”, is conducting a survey of area residents 55 years of age or older to determine what can be done to improve the lives of older residents of these communities. You can take the survey online by going here. As your correspondent, who just took it, can attest, it’s simple and not time-consuming. As the Brooklyn Heights Association notes:

The results of the survey will be invaluable to planners and other public officials as they seek to find effective solutions for the future. The GREATER THE RESPONSE, the greater the impact.

You will not receive any follow-up inquiries or solicitations, and no personal data will be disclosed. If you have any questions, you may contact Anne Perzeszty at anneper@verizon.net or 646-265-7835.

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Heights and Hills: “We Need Pies; Servers”

By on November 17, 2010 10:52 pm in charity, Events, Food, Seniors

This in from Heights & Hills Community Council, and the Brooklyn Heights Association:

Heights and Hills’ annual Thanksgiving Dinner will be held at Grace Church on Thanksgiving Day, serving older adults in our community. Heights and Hills also delivers meals to about 75 neighborhood seniors who are too frail to get out and join the festivities.

The dinner is open to senior citizens regardless of economic status. It is a community effort that is co-sponsored by Heights and Hills, Grace Church and Cobble Hill Health Center with assistance from the 84th Precinct and the Brooklyn Heights community.

Volunteers are needed to bake and bring pies to the Church (on or before Thanksgiving morning), and to help with delivering meals to the homebound, seating and serving the elderly, cleaning up, and socializing with the guests.

If you can donate your time between 10:30 AM and 2 PM, please call (718) 596-8789 to sign up, or for further information.

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Sen. Gillibrand Meets Brooklyn Journalists at Teresa’s; Vows to Fight for Federal Transit Support

By on August 12, 2010 11:24 pm in Election 10, Government, Health, Seniors, Transportation

BHB photo by C. Scales

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), appointed by Governor Paterson to fill the unexpired term of Hillary Clinton, and now facing election on a statewide ballot for the first time, visited Brooklyn today and met with local journalists, including your correspondent and BHS colleague T.K. Small, at Teresa’s. She discussed several issues of interest to Brooklyn voters, including federal support for mass transit, facilitating lending to small businesses, gay and lesbian rights, health care, and government transparency. Continue Reading →

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Pies Needed for Heights and Hill Thanksgiving Feast for Seniors

By on November 23, 2009 10:00 pm in Events, Food, Seniors

jsw_pumpkin_pieThe Heights and Hill Community Council is serving its annual Thanksgiving Feast for Seniors on Thursday at Grace Church, and needs as many apple, pecan or pumpkin pies as possible. Seconds, even thirds, on pie are always in demand. If you can bake a pie, or two, to feed hungry seniors at this event, you will bring them much joy. Please bring your pie or pies to Grace Church, 254 Hicks Street, between Grace Court and Joralemon, during the day on Wednesday or on Thursday morning no later than 11:00. Your generosity and baking talent will be greatly appreciated.

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