Summer's over and that must mean the crowning of the Floyd Summer Bocce league champion. If You Want My Bocce, the team consisting of Adam from our favorite blog about pizza (Slice) and friends, faced off against last year's champs Boccelism (pictured) after a long day of bracket based battle. Adam from Slice writes: I […]
Archive | August, 2006
Nabe Photog Reveals Gargantuan Nature of Yards Project
Brooklyn Heights resident and photographer Jonathan Barkey has created a website showing what he claims are the true proportions of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. He tells Brooklyn Papers, “I was bothered by the fact that Ratner’s renderings make the impact look less because the photos were from so far away…But when you show his […]
Fatal Accident on BQE
A Department of Sanitation worker was killed in an early morning accident on the BQE near Furman Street. Reports say the scene is being cleared now, but delays and closures are expected for the better part of the morning. WABC-TV: The garbage truck driver from the NYC Department of Sanitation lost control of the truck. […]
Love Sails into Brooklyn Heights
The personal ad, if there was one, would have read “retired, widowed doctor/avid sailor seeks partner for adventure and romance.” We have to say there wasn’t a dry eye in the BHB house when we read this wedding announcement in the NY Times today. New York Times: Ann Cary Bailey and Dr. Leon William Hoyer […]
Today’s Open Houses
75 Poplar Street #3D$1.1 Million "Sunlight pours into this lofty 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath duplex in Brooklyn Heights. The dramatic combination living/dining room upper level features a woodburning fireplace, maple floors, a skylight, ceiling heights reaching 15 feet, breathtaking views of the Hudson and iconic NY landmarks and boasts a Waterworks- appointed powder room. The […]
Pols Volley on Yards Project
Brooklyn Papers: Two candidates for the 11th congressional district — which includes parts of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope and Prospect Heights — support Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yard mega-development, two oppose it. Here’s what they said in a debate last week in the offices of The Brooklyn Papers. The 4 candidates for the 11th […]
Bukowski’s Life, Teen’s Strife Open in Heights
Matt Dillon stars in Factotum (rated R), a film based on the more than semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Bukowski. It co-stars Lili Taylor and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei. Anthony Lane writes in the New Yorker: “Factotum” is delivered with aplomb by the Norwegian director Bent Hamer. Together with Jim Stark, he also wrote the screenplay, […]
New Neighbor – Food Maestro
The sign heralds the opening of Food Maestro at the spot formerly known as Chez Henry. Is this venture destined for success or doomed to failure? Discuss. We received this cell phone photo of the restaurant's interior from a reader earlier this week. The interior suggests a French country theme, but isn't "Maestro" more Italian? […]
Warriors Bid Summer Adieu
BBPDC Presents The Warriors: Sol Yurick's mid-60s novel about a Brooklyn gang being framed for murder and chased through the borough by rivals was one of the biggest cult movies of the late 1970s. It's a fitting and absurd choice for the "Movies with a View" finale tonight. Music at 6, movie at sunset.
Brooklyn Heights Don’t Need No Official Flower – BHA
From our "it must me an election year" file… New York Daily News: Bush Gets Vote: The bright red roses of Bay Ridge are in full bloom, as are the lavender hibiscus, the towering yellow sunflowers and the perky marigolds. But yesterday, they all took a backseat to a giant white hydrangea bush, which […]
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