The Brooklyn Eagle reports nabe resident Phil Asby an "artist and paralegal" is leading a movement to build a 9/11 memorial on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Both Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Heights Association's Judy Stanton have been "approached" with the idea according to the paper. It adds that Asby has contacted […]
Archive | September, 2006
The Indiana Jones of Brooklyn Heights
The New York Press has an interesting story about a treasure hunter who also manages a building in the nabe. New York Press: Bonanzas Big and Small: James, the 48-year-old manager of my Brooklyn Heights building, is a demolition man by trade. People pay him to go into an apartment that’s being prepped for rehab […]
BHB Blog Roundup
Curbed has a great take on the latest in the Atlantic Yards soap opera (pictured). Brooklyn Record tells baseball fans to take note – the Red Hook Mexican League is en fuego. A baseball related rejected cartoon at NewYorkette. Speaking of sports, Self Absorbed Boomer on why he won't give up on college football.
Mayor Bloomberg Visits P.S. 8
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports: Praising P.S. 8/The Robert Fulton School as a model of what’s going right in New York City public school education, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein officially opened the school year at this transformed elementary school in Brooklyn Heights. As reporters clustered around the tree-lined Middagh Street entrance […]
Nabe’s Fave TV Actor Featured in Eagle
John Doman may be riding high now as one of the stars of HBO's The Wire but this celebrity neighbor most impresses us for his appearance on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That, friends, is the "big time". Our pals at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle caught up with the thesp of Willow […]
Back to School at P.S. 8
WABC-TV was live outside P.S. 8 this morning to mark the beginning of the 2006 – 2007 school year for New York City kids. Today also marks the beginning of Mayor Bloomberg's new system which includes a new management structure (principals no longer report to superintendents) and 12 new charter schools. NY1 also was outside […]
Heights Players Open 51st Season
Neil "Doc" Simon's 31st play, The Dinner Party, is set to open the Heights Players 51st season on Friday (9/8) at the Willow Place Chapel (26 Willow Place). Performances are 8PM Fridays and Saturdays and at 2PM Sundays through September 24. For more information go to the Heights Players website. The company has announced that […]
Terries’ Water Polo Season Starts
Annapolis, MD – In day two of the Navy Invitational, the St. Francis College Men’s Water Polo team evened out their record to 2-2 after wins over Johns Hopkins University and the Navy “B” team. The final scores were St. Francis 12, Johns Hopkins 3 and St. Francis 16, Navy “B” 6. St. Francis Terriers […]
Heights History: Vintage Henry and Cranberry Photo
With the imminent opening of the Blue Pig Party Place at 50 Henry Street, we found this vintage photo of the spot to be quite interesting. Anyone have background on the store that was once there or an idea of the year this photo was taken? Photo via Flickr user vinceconnare
Nabe’s Apocalyptic Visionary Stages Retrospective
New York Times: Joe Coleman Gets a Retrospective at the Tilton Gallery in Manhattan: If P. T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners, they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman. Obsessively depicting a grim moral universe of transgression and retribution, Mr. Coleman paints grotesque images of murderers and victims, […]
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