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. [...]
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 [...]
‘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)
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 [...]
Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Expands Greeting Card Offerings
Seeking to cater to a market for high quality hand crafted greeting cards previously served by
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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The Brooklyn Bugle
- Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award
- Actor Sean Penn Testifies For Release Of Imprisoned Brooklyn Heights Man
- Adam Yauch To Be Honored At 2013 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
- Open Thread: Brooklyn’s Front Page May 2013
- Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” by Walter Stahr
Cobble Hill Blog
- Summer Cobble Hill Park Concert Series Dates Announced
- NYT: ‘The Bare, Mysterious, Lonely Pole Of Cobble Hill’
- Fairway Market Contributes $30k to Non-Profit ‘ReStore Red Hook’
- Wanna Own A Piece Of The Brooklyn Bridge? Urban Folk Art Gallery Offers Its Paint!
- New Red Hook Eatery ‘RES’ Offers Artist In Residency For Budding Chefs
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Open Thread Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Landmarks Says No Go To Willow Street Backyard Pool
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‘Sing For Hope’ Public Pianos Return June 1, Including BBP’s Pier 1
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Monday’s Resplendent Sunset… Ooh, La La!
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Fairway Market Contributes $30k to Non-Profit ‘ReStore Red Hook’
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Actor Sean Penn Testifies For Release Of Imprisoned Brooklyn Heights Man
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SUNY Downstate Hosts Town Hall Meeting Monday To Discuss LICH ‘Sustainability Plan’
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The Mysterious Expansion Of 116 Montague Street
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Comedy Troupe Dinner For One Hosting Theater Workshop—With Paul Giamatti’s Assi$tance
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‘Sing For Hope’ Public Pianos Return June 1, Including BBP’s Pier 1
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Montague Street BID’s Annual Meeting: Thursday, June 18
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Purple Irises and Serviceberries
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
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Citi Bike Share Program: CB2 Member Claims DOT Told It Not To Vote Yea Or Nay
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
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The Mysterious Expansion Of 116 Montague Street
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Open Thread Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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