Archive | January, 2007

Food Maestro

Food Maestro Lives Up To Hype

As a service to you, our readers, and to the Brooklyn Heights community at large, we present “An Evening at Food Maestro” as told to BHB food critic Mrs. Fink via IM:

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Heights Players Tackle Steinbeck Gem

On Friday February 2 at 8PM the curtain will rise on the Heights Players' presentation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck based Of Mice and Men upon his real life experiences on the road in the 1920s. "Lennie was a real person… He's in an insane asylum in California right now. I worked […]

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Runs Brooklyn/Brooklyn Runs halfway done, Brooklyn Heights shunned

Still no sight of runs brooklyn this side of Court Street: Third, although there are a number of neighborhoods I clearly need to spend more time in, I have run at least once through all of the places listed with the glaring exception of Brooklyn Heights. Admittedly, I haven't yet run in Vinegar Hill or […]

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The Nabe This Week in Brooklyn Paper

Mark Lahm of Henry's End talks about Game Festival The Brooklyn Paper wants Brooklyn Bridge Park to be called Harriet Tubman Park  Heights reporter Christie Rizk has the lowdown on the I Am Legend film shoot this week

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The Heights at Night: Clark Street

photo by World's Worst Photographer in the World on Flickr

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Nabe Menu Site is Dream Come True

Nabe resident/restaurant owner Gianluca Martorelli  had a dream to start a magazine and website featuring menus from the Height's local eateries.  His dream came true when Ready to Order launched in October. Martorelli is profiled in this week's Brooklyn Heights Press.

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Work Started on Love Lane Condos?

Brownstoner reports that it seems work has begun on the conversion of the Love Lane Garage into Sterling Equities Love Lane Condos:

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Well at Least It’s Branded

What are the folks at the nearly totally empty businesses at 60 Henry Street up to while waiting for customers to show up? Creating a website and developing a “brand” of course! We noticed the URL, cornerofcranberry.com,  posted in the window of the newly opened Blue Pig Party Place across from the triple threat now […]

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BHA Governors Slate, Annual Meeting Announced

The Brooklyn Heights Association announced in a mailing this week that 9 current members of their Board of Governors have been nominated for the Class of 2010: Alexandra Bowie, Richard Carlson, Saundra Cornwell, Donald Fraser, Michael McCarthy, Brian McGorry, Jane McGroarty, Diane Miller and Patricia Schuster.  According to BHA by-laws, "any twenty five memberships" can […]

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20 Henry Street on the Block

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports today that after all the drama surrounding the development of 20 Henry Street, the property has been put on the market for $22.5 million. The photo here shows the Landmarks approved four story building proposed to be built upon the building's garden area.  UPDATE: 

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