Archive | April, 2008

Open Thread Wednesday 4/2/08

What's on your mind? Comment away!  Flickr photo by Josh Derr

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Additional Images from Gristedes Blaze in Brooklyn Heights

 The fire broke out just before 6:00 this evening.  No injuries were immediately reported, though the toll taken on the vermin population has yet to be assessed. It is not clear what caused the fire, though to this correspondent's nose, electricity seems to have been the culprit.    Photos by Marc Hermann. 

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Fire at Henry Street Gristedes

p>  Fire broke out late this afternoon at the Henry Street Gristedes in Brooklyn Heights. Store workers tell BHB that the blaze was caused by an electrical malfunction in the deli department. According to NYPD on scene there were no injuries but the store is "trashed".  Workers add that most of the damage to the […]

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BQE Louder Than Ever in North Heights

  Several folks have mentioned to us over the last few months that truck noises from the BQE have reached a new level on annoying.  Of course living near a major highway is by its very nature a noisy endeavor but these sounds, according to witnesses, appear to more than just business as usual.

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Brooklyn Heights House Tour Announced

From our pals at the Brooklyn Heights Association comes word that this year's annual House Tour will take place on Saturday May 10, 2008:

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Church Organist Wants to be Elton

Saturday night's all right for fightin' but Wednesday afternoon is just fine for playing Elton at St. Ann's:  NY Daily News: Each Wednesday at lunchtime, Gregory Eaton sits down to an old pipe organ and taps out what could be described as anything but church music. The organ, an E.M. Skinner pipe organ built in […]

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