BHB Newshound "Greg" sent in this photo of construction of the man made beach slated to accompany the Floating Pool Lady. The "beach" opens on July 4. New York Post: The Latest Shore Thing: The beach will be modeled after the successful Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens, with one big exception – […]
Archive | June, 2007
Bandits in Cadman Park
Seems that while our law enforcement officials are busy writing parking tickets, citizens are being yoked at a fever pitch: Brooklyn Paper Police Blotter: A quintet of thugs surrounded a man sitting in Cadman Plaza Park and stole his camera at 2 pm on June 15. The man, who had been relaxing with a friend […]
Run Fink Run?
In his column in this week's Brooklyn Paper, BHB publisher Homer Fink contemplates running for "higher" office: Brooklyn Paper: I Should Run for 'Higher' Office: I’ve gotten to know the mind of the man (and gal) on the street in the Heights pretty well since I started publishing the Brooklyn Heights Blog almost a year […]
BHB on Kyte.tv
We've started a BHB channel on kyte.tv, a website that allows anyone to create a TV channel. You can create "programming" by uploading photos or video to the site or you can record directly from your webcam to kyte. Check out our quick "Welcome" video using some BHB Photo Club pix and then start "producing" […]
Fink in Funk; Scales Stumped
For the second time in a row, BHB Capo di Tutti Capi Homer Fink failed to make the final rounds of the Dick Swizzle Sudden Death Game Show at Magnetic Field, inexplicably naming Broward, not Palm Beach, County as the land of dangling chads. This time he was joined in ignominy by consigliere Claude Scales, […]
Splitting Hairs Over Parking Tickets
Today's Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports on the increase in parking tickets in the Heights: Brooklyn Eagle: Downtown Parking Blitz: According to Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, the problem is that “generally in Downtown Brooklyn and in the areas around it, there is a tremendous amount of parking pressure. Incidents of illegal […]
Getting TAZEd on Montague?
A reader brings to our attention the recent employment of "barkers" to get more people up into TAZE: It's most annoying to have to walk home everyday and get hounded by being asked, "Do you like Turkish food? Why don't you eat here?" They try to interrupt you even when you're on the phone. It's […]
Poplar Precinct Conversion Plan
Brooklyn Eagle: It won’t by NYPD blue, it will be NYPD green, according to Bill Punch, a partner with Maurice Laboz and construction manager. of Regal Investments Inc., the developer of 72 Poplar St. in Brooklyn Heights. Punch was speaking of the gas lighting planned for the front of the former home of the […]
SL Green Nabs 16 Court Street
RTT News: Wednesday morning, SL Green Realty Corp. (SLG) said that it has reached an agreement to acquire, the tallest building in downtown Brooklyn 16 Court Street, for $107.5 million. The acquisition would position the company as Manhattan's largest landlord and as a provider of quality office space in other metro-area submarkets. Built in 1928 […]
Open Thread Wednesday
Oh! What a week! Comment on these stories for OTW: What's coming to Pineapple Street? A "contemporary" building? Does that mean an all glass nightmare? Will the BHA roll over? Scaffolding comes down at 185 Montague, could this be the start of a new trend? Parking tickets up, robberies up. Life sucks get a helmet? […]
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