Ah, at last! With temps hitting the upper 60s this Monday, the cafes and restaurants along Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights are thrusting open their doors and setting up outdoor seating… including Caffe Buon Gusto, Teresa’s, Heights Cafe, La Pain Quotidien, Starbucks, Connecticut Muffin, Custom House, Grand Canyon and Armando’s. Hopefully, this is a sign […]
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35 MPH Wind Gusts & 39°F? Spring Sure Ain’t Sprung
“What happened? Yesterday was so beautiful,” noted my neighbor this morning walking together along Montague Street, just before a wind gust came from behind and blew poor Mrs. Hinkle skyward. With temps Thursday morning at 28°F and Northwest winds gusting between 30-35 mph, it’s hard to believe it was 50 degrees on Wednesday—or that Spring […]
Wowsah: Winter Persists With White Wet Blanket
Spring may officially begin on Wednesday, March 20, but 12 days prior you’d never know it. The snowstorm that’s been promised since Wednesday actually delivered formidable accumulation in Brooklyn Heights Friday morning. It’s a beautiful wintry blanket of white, but man, wet and slush-filled. (CT)
Reminder: Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday, 3/10
Make sure you’re standing by every clock in your Brooklyn Heights home Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. We lose an hour, but… let the sun shine! Daylight Saving Time returns, a sure sign that Spring might actually really truly return once more. (Damn the detractors.) (CT)
Great News: Red Hook’s Fairway Market To Reopen 3/1
After Hurricane Sandy devastated Red Hook’s beloved Fairway Market, the entire neighborhood has suffered as many that visited the grocery from the surrounding vicinity also stopped supporting other local businesses that depend on so much traffic from the anchor store. Good news: Fairway is set to reopen March 1, according to the New York Daily […]
Brooklyn Heights in Nemo’s Wake
Brooklyn Heights awoke this morning under a deep blanket of snow, as attested by this photo taken by your correspondent’s wife from our window at about 9:00 a.m. The intrepid Karl Junkersfeld was out and about with his cam, and took the video that follows the jump. Chuck Taylor’s Promenade pics also below.
Here It Comes: Fervent February Blizzard Blows Through Heights
It’s gettin’ it’s gettin’ it’s gettin’ kinda hectic… As the season’s first legitimate snowstorm hankers down over the Heights, the early morning rain turned to snow and sleet by late afternoon. Thanks to increasing wind, those little pellets of ice feel like needles blowing sideways. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for […]
And Nemo Is Its Name-O – Brooklyn Heights Braces for Big Blizzard in Our Backyard
Oy to the vey with this weather. As Brooklyn Heights residents and the rest of Northeast prepare for this weekend’s big snowstorm, we get word the thing has a name — Nemo. But it’s not an “official name” it’s one bestowed upon it by those wacky folks at the Weather Channel:
Flakatastrophe Coming?
(OK, we’ve already used “blizzageddon” and “snowpocalypse.”) Anyway, this is the latest from Notify NYC: The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning for New York City from 6:00 AM Friday, 2/8 to 1 PM Saturday, 2/9. The current forecast calls for 10-14 inches of snow accompanied by strong winds. With visibility expected to […]
Scott Stringer Proposes Brooklyn Bridge Park—On The Other Side Of East River
Manhattan borough president Scott M. Stringer has proposed a beachfront park with kayaking, marshlands and a pedestrian bridge—on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge—in a plan that appears to mimic many of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s amenities. Stringer’s East River Blueway Plan, announced Thursday in his State of the Borough speech, calls for a public […]
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