We’ve just been told by Willowtown Association President Ben Bankson that “Ambassadors” for the Citi Bike Share program will be at the Willowtown Spring Fair this Saturday, May 18. According to Mr. Bankson: “Ambassadors” from the city’s new bike-share program to begin Memorial Day will be present at Willowtown’s Spring Fair on Saturday, the 18th, [...]
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
It’s a green light weekend coming, as there are no planned cancellations or diversions directly affecting service at any local stations. The only glitch in service the following week is that, from 11:45 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Tuesday to Friday there will be no service to Manhattan from the Court Street station or from the [...]
Improved Brooklyn Bridge Ramps To Brooklyn Heights Near Completion
A series of choke points providing entry and exits to the Brooklyn Bridge are nearing completion, including a ramp that connects Brooklyn-bound lanes to Cadman Plaza West and Old Fulton Street in Brooklyn Heights. The New York Times reports that three ramps are just about finished, also including one connecting the bridge’s exit from the [...]
Bike Rack Switcheroo: Remsen to Hicks
As the photo shows, racks for the Citi Bike Share program have been placed along the west side of Hicks Street going south from Montague, in front of Heights Cafe, Dellarocco’s, and J McLaughlin. According to BHB Ten 2012 honoree Sahmi Rum, who mourns the loss of parking spaces, the racks were moved from Remsen [...]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
The only planned change directly affecting service at any local station this weekend is that there will be no service from 11:30 p.m. Friday until 5:00 a.m. Monday from Manhattan to Court Street or Jay Street-Metro Tech on the R and (late night) N line, as these trains will be diverted over the Manhattan Bridge [...]
Disdain Over Citibike Stations Turns To Legal Action, Including 150 Joralemon Street
The Citi Bike Share program is now prompting more than simple community disdain. Add a collection of lawsuits against the city and its Department of Transportation—including one by the co-op board of 150 Joralemon Street. Racks there are allegedly getting in the way of garbage collection, “with three other racks in a three-block vicinity offering [...]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
“Take the A Train,” said the Duke, but this weekend, from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5:00 a.m. Monday, you won’t be able to take a Brooklyn bound A or C from Manhattan directly to High Street, as these trains are being diverted over the F line from West 4th Street in Manhattan to Jay Street-Metro [...]
NYC Council Member Letitia James: Bike-Share… Get Used To It
Despite mounting disdain in Brooklyn Heights—and throughout the borough—Citi bike-share is here to stay. At a Town Hall meeting Wednesday in Fort Greene that the New York Times deemed “raucous,” NYC Council Member Letitia James—who helped formulate the program with NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg—told 100+ neighborhood residents, “The public streets belong to all of us. [...]
Manhattan Bound Brooklyn Bridge Lanes Closed This Weekend
This in from Notify NYC: Notification issued 4/26/13 at 12:00 PM. As part of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) project to rehabilitate the Brooklyn Bridge ramps and approaches, a full closure of the Manhattan-bound lanes of the bridge will be required this weekend, from 12:01 AM Saturday, April 27 to 6 AM [...]
Citi Bike Share Prompting Ire—And Vandalism
WINS-AM (1010) reported this morning from Brooklyn Heights that the newly installed Citibank-sponsored bike-share stands in the neighborhood are not only irritating residents—who voiced on-air that they don’t fit in with the historic tenor of the Heights—but have become a target for anti-corporate brouhaha throughout the borough. Brooklyn.Some folks loved the idea of the city’s [...]
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Open Thread Weekend 5/17/13
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Landmarks Says No Go To Willow Street Backyard Pool
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Mystic Whaler Arrives at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Bloomberg Nixes East River July 4th Fireworks—But Squadron & Markowitz Fight For Right To Party
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Brooklyn Bridge Park Prexy Regina Myer Mentioned as Possible City Planning Commissioner
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Willowtown Spring Fair a Lively Event
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Another Chance Saturday To See ‘If These Knishes Could Talk’, BHB Contributor Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Movie
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Brooklyn Heights Promenade Gardens Bake Sale
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Monday’s Resplendent Sunset… Ooh, La La!
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SUNY Downstate Hosts Town Hall Meeting Monday To Discuss LICH ‘Sustainability Plan’
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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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Plymouth Church Hosts 144th-Annual ‘Juneteenth Celebration’ 06/09
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Monday’s Resplendent Sunset… Ooh, La La!
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Brooklyn Bridge Park Prexy Regina Myer Mentioned as Possible City Planning Commissioner
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Landmarks Says No Go To Willow Street Backyard Pool
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Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award
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SUNY Downstate Hosts Town Hall Meeting Monday To Discuss LICH ‘Sustainability Plan’
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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “Blooms and Bugs”: Lots of Blooms, No Bugs, Some Birds
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Mystic Whaler Arrives at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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