Slice: Deep-Fried Pizza: Yes, that's right. Deep-fried pizza, long the exclusive domain of the Scots, has landed Stateside. Slice noticed it on the menu of the Atlantic ChipShop a little over a month ago. After some pestering on our part, chippie owner Chris Sell allowed me and Matt Jacobs into his kitchen to […]
Archive | October, 2006
Doggie Halloween Parade
This Sunday (10/29), the Hillside Dog Park will stage its annual Dog Halloween Parade Extravaganza at 3:30 PM. It will start on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade at Remsen Street with dogs and owners in costume and will continue up the Promenade to the Hillside Dog Park. Judging of costumes will happen at the entrance of […]
Oscar Winning Couple Headed to Nabe?
Brooklyn Record is deducing from local property sales records that Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon may be headed to Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Record: Tim Robbins Buying in Brooklyn Heights?: First there was Jennifer and Paul, then Michelle and Heath, and now Susan and Tim? Maybe so. According to public real estate filings, The […]
Palmira’s to Host Benefit
Palmira's Italian Restaurant (map) will host UCanspeakup's 2006 Benefit Award Dinner for the Awareness and Prevention Child Abuse on November 9 from 6:30 – 10 PM. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's Appointee and Executive Director of Just Tell Vivian Farmery will be the Keynote Speaker at the event. Sponsorship packages range from $250-$1,000, and tickets […]
Choppers!
Our friend "Standpipe" (not his real name) has been complaining about the mysterious choppers outside his window for months. They don't bother us at the BHB Metroplex as we've been more focused on thugs robbing people on our block and the army of hobos rifling through our garbage bins every morning. However, these flying objects […]
Heights Painter, Curator Subject of D.C. Exhibit
Katherine S. Dreier. (American, 1877-1952). Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp. 1918. Oil on canvas. MoMA New York Times: Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America: Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952) was a painter, collector and patron with a small private fortune, a passion for Modern art and a fashion sense that rivaled Eleanor Roosevelt in dowdiness. Her parents […]
There Go the Judges
New York Daily News: Feds Work to Give Parks Its Old Lot: As downtown Brooklyn leaders battle to push state judges' cars out of a city park, a federal court parking lot is being turned back into open space. Federal court officials closed down most of their parking lot in Walt Whitman Park next to […]
Police Blotter: Thugs Lurk on Cranberry Street
The Brooklyn Papers reports that a 22 year old man was robbed at knifepoint at the corner of Cranberry and Willow Streets on October 13 at 6:30 pm. When the man informed the three knife wielding felons that he had no cash, they forced him to a "nearby ATM" on Henry Street where he withdrew […]
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