The former Taco Madre location at 118 Montague Street is being quickly prepared to become Tenda Asian Bistro. On our stroll home from the Atlantic Antic this afternoon we noticed a sign in the window which not only promises a swift opening but also that it will thrill residents with its "world famous chef". A […]
Archive | September, 2006
Today’s Open Houses
7 Columbia Place (map)Townhouse$2.1 Million Broker: Sotheby's Open House today 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM This wonderful 1830's clapboard house is situated on a quiet, tree-lined block steps from the Brooklyn waterfront. An unusual center staircase makes for beautifully proportioned rooms. Four bedrooms, 6 fireplaces, a front porch & west facing garden are among the best features […]
Atlantic Antic Today
Brooklyn Record: On Sunday, September 17th, car traffic will vanish on one of Brooklyn's busiest stretches of road. Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods will ring out the summer with a huge celebration — it's time for Atlantic Antic. The street festival, which will be celebrating its 33rd year, runs for a mile and a half along Atlantic […]
Haven Opens in Heights
Opening today at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema I & II is the R-rated thriller, Haven (trailer; watch the first 8 minutes). It stars Bill Paxton as a crooked businessman laundering his ill-gotten gains in the Cayman Islands and Orlando Bloom as a star crossed lover. The Associated Press' Christy Lemire writes: White-collar criminals and […]
Brooklyn Book Festival Saturday
Brooklyn Borough Hall plays host to the first annual Brooklyn Book Festival this Saturday (9/16). Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz says the festival "will celebrate Brooklyn’s international reputation as an enclave of hip, multi-ethnic writers who represent some of the greatest names in literature today." Brooklyn authors attending include music writer Nelson George (Hip Hop America), […]
Curtains for Food Maestro?
Food Maestro located at the doomed 60 Henry Street location has been closed in the evenings on our walk home from the subway and in the morning on our way to work. Has it been open at all this week? Mrs. Fink mentioned a sad sign in the window over the weekend reading simply, "close […]
Soprano Dishes Love Advice to Nabe Blogger
Glamour magazine dating blogger/Brooklyn Heights resident Alyssa Shelasky bares her soul each day via her blog "See Alyssa Date" (watch her video). This week she's given very special advice from her friend/Soprano's star the very recently divorced Jamie Lynn Sigler. How did Shelasky meet the TV actress? "We met thru friends in New York, and […]
Heights History: Brooklyn Heights Historic District
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Brooklyn Heights residents persuaded “Power Broker” Robert Moses to re-route his plans to ram the BQE through the heart of the neighborhood and to halt bulldozing Willowtown in the name of progress. The woman who led the resistance against Moses on his Willowtown proposal was Mrs. Darwin James, […]
Primary Day – A Comedy of Manners
While BHB is not in the business of endorsing any political candidates, the Connor vs. Diamondstone State Senate Democratic nomination faceoff has been quite nasty. Just ask our mailbox or our pals at Brooklyn Papers who refused to endorse either candidate. This fact is not lost on Nicole Brydson at the New York Observer. NY […]
Evening, 9/11, Five Years Later
A beautiful view from the Promenade, we never wanted. And so we pray.
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