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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

This coming weekend is a big one for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Sunday, the Park will celebrate the 130th anniversary of the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge with a marathon reading of Hart Crane’s epic poem The Bridge at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1 starting at 3:00 p.m. More details here. The [...]

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Key Food Intends To Maintain Clipped Store Hours

In the midst of Hurricane Sandy, the Key Food at 102 Montague Street scaled back its operating hours due to challenges with deliveries and gas. A manager tells BHB that those clipped store hours are here to stay. Before Sandy, the store was open until midnight Monday through Saturdays, and until 11 p.m. on Sunday. [...]

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Montague Street Radio Shack Tuning Out By End Of August

The long-lived Radio Shack at 110 Montague Street is vacating the premises by the end of August, a store manager tells BHB, for the reason one might expect… a marked hike in monthly rent. The RS staffer told us that sales in the neighborhood don’t merit the increase, so the franchise has decided to say [...]

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‘Proper: The Accessory Vault’ Opens At 110 Montague Street

A new boutique has quietly opened at 110 Montague Street, above Radio Shack. “Proper: The Accessory Vault’s” webpage is still under construction, but its wares include jewelry, silver, gold-plated, costume jewelry, body scrubs, candles, mens & womens watches, cufflinks, tie bars and other accessories. More online at Instagram. (CT)

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Housing Works Sale This Saturday

This Saturday from 12-8 will be Housing Works’ “Best of Spring” sale. Huge discounts on trendy thrift-store items means long lines of impatient shoppers on Montague. Want to avoid the riff-raff? A $450 donation will get you in an hour before the store opens, while a $120 donation will get you in 30 minutes before [...]

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Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Expands Greeting Card Offerings

Seeking to cater to a market for high quality hand crafted greeting cards previously served by

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Brooklyn Heights’ Arthur Miller: GQ Deems ‘Back In Style’

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Brooklyn Heights resident Arthur Miller was certainly a stylish gent in his time (1915-2005), and the March 2013 issue of GQ pays homage to a revival of the “Arthur Miller Look.” The men’s fashion mag writes, “This spring, fashion designers rediscovered the playwright so dapper he landed Marilyn Monroe. Miller’s stripped-down, [...]

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Update: Brooklyn Heights’ Montague Street Remains Rousing Retail Success Story

In May 2012, BHB wrote about an appreciable renaissance taking place along the Montague Street retail corridor, during which a dozen new businesses moved in along the avenue over the year preceding. Another snapshot of Brooklyn Heights “Main Street” this week reveals that Montague remains a bustling success story, with restaurants, spas, bodegas, bakeries and [...]

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Sweet Pea CSA Accepting Members For 2013 Vege Season

Brooklyn Heights-based CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) The Sweet Pea is accepting members for the upcoming season, with options for a full or half vegetable share, fruit, egg, flower, meat or cheese share. A typical vegetable share includes 7-8 items per week, with more in the summer and autumn than spring. The organization’s pricing is online, [...]

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Meet Gregory, Key Food’s Main Meat Man

A tall handsome fellow, uh, mannequin named Gregory is greeting (frightening?) shoppers at the Montague Street Key Food, decked in full-on meat manager garb, a black cap and coolio shades. We inquired of a manager there, “Wha? Huh? Why?” regarding the dude’s presence, and were informed that he is a promotional “tool” for a beef [...]

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