After four nights shrouded in darkness following Hurricane Sandy, Con Edison reports that power has been restored to much of the Lower East Side and East Village and parts of Chelsea. But Battery Park and the Wall Street area remain without electricity. The utility said it expects to have power back in the bulk of […]
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Sanitation Collection: Nope, Not Yet
As garbage collection crews try to catch up in Brooklyn Heights, it’s not only blue recycling bags and stacks of newspapers and magazines that continue to pile up along many of the residential streets of the neighborhood… Black garbages bags are lined up in equal numbers. Sanitation crews in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill were […]
Local Grocery Stores Begin Restocking Perishables Friday
Grocery stores in Brooklyn Heights were restocking perishable items as of Friday morning, as trucks began making their way back to the neighborhood at 7 a.m. Key Food management at 102 Montague Street told BHB early this morning that fresh fruits, milk, bread and meat are returning to the shelves, with night crews working overtime […]
BK Bus Service To Manhattan… Thursday’s Messy Mayhem
The MTA and New York City Department of Transportation have established three routes for bus bridge service and bus priority lanes from three Brooklyn locations to Midtown Manhattan. Starting at 6 a.m., and operating 24 hours a day until further notice, shuttle buses will travel to and from subway stations at Atlantic Avenue, Jay Street […]
Watch Manhattan Go Dark Monday Night In A Matter Of Seconds…
Gothamist has posted five time-lapse videos showing the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the city, including the one below taken in Brooklyn Heights as Lower Manhattan goes dark within seconds at the :08 mark.
Heights Provides Consummate Media Image Of Lower NY’s Blackout
The consummate photograph that newspapers around the world are using to illustrate Lower Manhattan’s Monday night blackout from Hurricane Sandy—not surprisingly—was taken from our Brooklyn Heights Promenade. New York-based Associated Press photojournalist Bebeto Matthews took the pic, which has appeared in papers across the U.S., as well as New Zealand, Norway, France, Wales, Saudi Arabia, […]
VIDEO: #BrooklynSandy in Brooklyn Heights Continued
Karl Junkersfeld files this follow up to his report from earlier today. Footage from Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO. Watch it after the jump.
Darkness On The Edge Of Town: Lower Manhattan At Dusk Tuesday
What a spooky spectacle… There’s not a light to be found across Manhattan, in this panoramic shot taken just before 6 p.m. Tuesday from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (see full-size view here). Below, a closer image focused on Lower Manhattan. ConEd reports 780,000 customers are without service, including 250,000 in Manhattan and 87,000 in Brooklyn. […]
Note from NY State Senator Squadron
Our man in the New York State Senate, Daniel Squadron, has issued this dispatch to his constituency, which includes Brooklyn Heights. His correspondence includes a great deal of useful information…
Read It Here: Post Superstorm Sandy News Impacting Brooklyn Heights…
As BHB continues to dig for post-storm news, we’ll update coverage here that impacts or discusses Brooklyn Heights… * 8:30 PM: West Village Halloween Parade postponed for the first time in 39 years. Bloomberg says it may be rescheduled next week… Hurricane Sandy deemed fifth most-costly in U.S. history. Could cost $5B-$10B in insured losses […]
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