Your friends ask you what that castle building is on Clark Street and if you’re a smarty pants you know that it was once known as the Leverich Towers Hotel. It’s now a residence hall for Jehovah’s Witnesses but in its heyday it played host to the Brooklyn Dodgers (they stayed there during homestands), housed […]
Archive | August, 2006
Jack the Horse Friendly, Needs Coaxing
Having dinner at Jack the Horse Tavern is like having dinner at a really good friend's house — they're great people, it's just their cooking is uneven. What's a friend to do? Do you not go back? But even though the meal can be questionable you always go home having had more fun than not. […]
Blue Pig Party Room Coming
Big sign in the window at the site formerly known as Cafe El Cubanito at 50 Henry Street heralds the arrival of the Blue Pig Party Room. One curmudgeon on the street muttered to us, "What? A Starbucks would be too easy?" Anyone have more info? BHB review: Blue Pig Sweetens Henry Street
Preservation Project Needs Your Photos
The New York Preservation Archive Project is building an online database of photos from New York City's past. Prominently featured will be Brooklyn Heights. Gothamist: Calling All Preservation Nerds: And, yes, the Project needs your help with images of Brooklyn Heights community meetings from the early 1940s (when a failed BQE plan would have cut […]
Nabe’s Fave Irish Actor Enjoys Edinburgh Film Fest
Brooklyn Heights' favorite Irish actor, Gabriel Byrne, is in Scotland this week to take in the Edinburgh Film Festival. While there, Byrne accepted the Bank of Scotland Herald Angels Award for Aussie director Ray Lawrence's film Jindabyne, in which he stars. He also got his freak on with fellow thesps John Hurt, Charlize Theron and […]
‘Heights Dreams for Red Hook Pizzaman
BrooklynPapers.com: A Slice of Red Hook: Nearby on Coffey Street between Conover and Ferris streets, Vitale is putting up two new $1.2-million brick carriage-house-style office buildings that he will build to look like they could’ve been on the spot 110 years ago if Red Hook had ever been as wealthy as, say, Brooklyn Heights. “Why […]
Reality Check on BBP
NY Sun: Hillary and the Park: "…The effect of the lawsuit is to delay construction of a park that would benefit the neighborhood. Given the laws of supply and demand, the addition of 1,210 new units of housing, of any sort, even luxury housing, will take some of the pressure off in the Brooklyn housing […]
Today’s Open Houses
62 Montague Street, #7ABE$1.65 Million "Beautiful, bright, 2000 sq. foot expansive 3 bedroom + separate office… ideal for your new family home! This mint condition apt is on an upper floor of a lovely prewar building, only steps away from the famous Brooklyn Heights Promenade. With 3 exposures, there are city and harbor views available […]
Some History of Love Lane
The excellent blog Ephemeral New York has a post on Brooklyn Heights’ perhaps most charmingly named thouroughfare. It quotes an 1894 New York Times article: The oldest residents can remember a time when there was a cool and shady path leading down “Lover’s Lane,” where plump, rosy-cheeked Dutch maidens, with their sweethearts, meandered on summer […]
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