Sunday night, around 7:45 pm, the skies over Brooklyn Heights lit up with fireworks celebrating the end of the Deepavali Festival held at the South Street Seaport. The yearly event was expected to draw 100,000 people according to reports, making it the biggest Diwali celebration in the world. The Hindu holiday, is known as the […]
Archive | October, 2007
Best Brooklyn Heights Dentist Open Thread
They're your pearly whites, who do you trust with them? Have you been going to the same nabe dentist since you were a kid? Have you found one so good that you've switched from your tony Manhattan dentist? What does it take for someone to be YOUR dentist? Discuss below… thanks!
Kids Halloween Parade Time!
From bhplaygrounds.org: Halloween Parade The Annual Brooklyn Heights Halloween Parade will take place on: Saturday, October 27th, 2007 – 10:00 AM Place: Pierrepont Playground Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Streets (on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade) Bring your little ghouls and goblins to join in the fun and show off their best costumes! A bake sale will […]
After Heights Hairdresser’s Death, His Wife Gives Birth
David Sagiv worked as a hairdresser at Irene Dinov on Montague Street since the early 1990s. He was killed two weeks ago in a car accident. The New York Daily News reports today that his wife, Jelena, gave birth to a baby girl days after his death. The story adds that a fund has been […]
A Heights Artist: Mark Crawford
The images in this post are © 2007 by Mark Crawford, and are posted here with his permission. Mark Crawford, who has made the Heights his home since 1993, is a painter whose art defies easy classification. Much of his work, like Garden Charade (shown above) seems to fit within the abstract expressionist canon, but […]
Car Fire at Cadman Plaza
Josh Derr writes on Flickr: This car hit the guards at the Cadman plaza exit and burst into flames. It happened around 5:00pm today just as I was getting ready to leave the office. I have two questions: 1) What happened? (I didn't see any other vehicles involved in the accident, though it looked like […]
Mailer’s Wife Profiled
NY Magazine: The Model Wife: Norris Church Mailer, 58, artist, writer, one-time model, strikingly beautiful red-headed wife of the more famous Norman Mailer, is 5ft 10in and an English size 2. It’s not her size of choice – just the consequences of having been diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, and having undergone seven operations. […]
Soul Food Comes to G&T Space
Harlem eatery Amy Ruth's will be opening a location in the former home of Gage and Tollner in Downtown Brooklyn. At the BHB Metroplex, we're excited as we're told that the spot is a favorite of singer John Legend. Not only that, but there's a chicken and waffle dish named after Rev. Al Sharpton (we […]
NY Times on Five Guys Burgers and Fries
NY Times: Dining Briefs: Five Guys asserts that it cooks its burger ($3.59 to $6.19) to a juicy well done. The reality is drier than that, but the ultimate shortcoming of the patties (regular burgers come with two, stacked atop one another; small burgers are single-patty affairs) isn’t their firmness or near-dryness, but that they […]
Frosh Rep Clark Earns “D” Rating
Word out today that the 11th District's freshman U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke, a Democrat, has been given a "D" rating by two Congressional watchdog groups: Courier Life: Black Caucus…: The “D” grade comes from two Congressional watchdog groups, the CBC Monitor and the Black Agenda Report, which issue bi-annual report cards of Congressional Black Caucus […]
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