Archive | April, 2008

Brooklyn Heights Blog is Back

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We had some hosting issues over the weekend but now we’re back.  More posts later but we think this South Park clip says it all for us right now.

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Happy 60th Birthday Sahadi’s

Sahadi’s on [187-189 Atlantic Avenue] is celebrating its 60th birthday.  The Brooklyn Eagle has a great retrospective.

Flickr photo by Rachael Ash

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Condos 1, Park Defense Fund 0

Brooklyn Bridge Park will have condos, so shut your piehole the State Supreme Court says:

Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn Bridge Park Goes Forward: Brooklyn Bridge Park cleared another hurdle this week, as the State Supreme Court ruled against opponents of the open space and luxury housing development, unanimously upholding the state’s inclusion of private housing inside the park’s footprint.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund had filed the lawsuit to force the state to revise its plans for the 85-acre parkland and commercial development along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront by eliminating the controversial condominiums and hotel slated for the park.

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Suit Alleges Anti-Kid Bias at Brooklyn Heights Brown Harris Stevens

The Brooklyn Heights branch of Brown Harris Stevens has been hit with a class-action lawsuit accusing the brokerage firm with housing discrimination. The complaint is being made Jamie Katz and his wife Dr. Lisa Nocera who say that the firm steered them away from certain rental properties because they have a child. The suit is seeking to have Brown Harris Stevens to train their agents to comply with current Fair Housing laws and according to the New York Times “unspecified” damages. Continue Reading →

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Nabe Filmmaker Featured at Film Fest

The Brooklyn Paper reports that Brooklyn Heights filmmaker Doan Hoang’s Oh Saigon has been named Best Feature Documentary at this year’s 42nd annual Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Hoang’s family and their journey from Vietnam to the United States. It will be screened on May 9 a the Brooklyn Museum.

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Korres on Montague Opening Soon… Really

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the long awaited unveiling of the Korres store on Montague Street will happen on May 15. It will be a “soft” opening a spokesperson for the natural cosmetics company tells the paper. A sign in the window of 140 Montague Street had promised that the popular chain would be opening “in April”.

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Lost and Found: Michael’s iPod

We started BHB for hyper-local news just like this. Won’t you help “Michael” find his lost iPod? Posters have been placed all over the neighborhood so we’re figuring he’s gotta be plotzing over this. And this being Brooklyn and us being neurotic, we understand.

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Columbia Place Cherry Blossoms

BHB Photo Club pic by fkuffel via Flickr

BHB Photo Club pic by fkuffel via Flickr

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Fatality at Problem Intersection.

Police say a 69-year-old woman was killed just after noon today when she was struck by a commercial vehicle at the intersection of Adams St. and Joralemon St. Her identity has not yet been released, and the NYPD is conducting an investigation into the circumstances of the accident. This intersection is notorious for being the scene of accidents, due to its high volume of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and, according to some, made more dangerous when the timing of the traffic lights is changed by the DOT.

Update: Police have identified the victim as Dolly Shirzada of Pierrepont St.

Update: NY1 video after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Yo Nanny, There’s a Posse After You

Our favorite vigilante site Mommy blog, I Saw Your Nanny, has this wonderful tattletale nugget today:

ISYN: This afternoon, (4/23) at Cadman Plaza park in Brooklyn Heights at around 4PM. A little boy between two and a half and three, light brown hair and hazel eyes, rosy cheeks, wearing army green and navy striped t shirt, light blue and white kind of train engineer striped pants and navy blue shoes. I think he said his name was Devon — I can’t be sure. He was wandering on his own in the woods toward Cadman Plaza West and on the pavement by the war memorial at the north part of the park for quite a while with no supervision. A woman walking her dogs asked me if he was with me as I got my own kid strapped in the stroller to leave the park. It took a good five minutes for his nanny, a thick, dark skinned black woman, possibly with braids, in a black t-shirt over a white t-shirt with black pants or jeans, to appear. And he might have been wandering alone for a good five minutes or so before that. She finally came up from somewhere on a bench in the middle of the astroturf area all the way up to where he had wandered by the war memorial and took him away without making eye contact with me.

Whatever happend to the no snitchin’ movement?

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Open Thread Wednesday 4/23/08

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What’s on your mind this week? Lots of things to talk about on BHB including:

Bye Bye Brooklyn Tattoo

Montague Street Goes Green

A walk through Brooklyn Heights

No computers, no cell phones at Tazza

Packer Student Behind Silent Rave

And from around the web:

The Brooklyn Literary 100 [New York Observer]

Montague Lights in daylight [McBrooklyn]

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Solar Lights at Night

BHB pic by Qfwfq

Those moon-like objects are Solar Lanterns placed along Montague Street today in honor of Earth Day by Montague BID.

BHB pic by Qfwfq

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Bye Bye Brooklyn Tattoo – Let’s Party!

As Brooklyn Heights says goodbye to our pals at Brooklyn Tattoo, Cobble Hill welcomes them.  And there’s a party! Details at Cobble Hill Blog. Read more

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30 Orange Street – Deal or No Deal?

Brownstoner ponders the per square foot cost of the townhouse for sale at 30 Orange Street:

Brownstoner: House of the Day: After 10 weeks on the market, the four-story brick house at 30 Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights just had its price reduced from $3,100,000 to $2,900,000. At first glance, this appears cheap for the neighborhood, until you realize that the house is only 30 feet deep. As a result, the square-foot count is only 2,400, putting the price-per-square-foot at about $1,200. We just posted a decent comp yesterday: The 2,344-square-foot brick house at 38 Cranberry recently closed for $2,700,000.

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Existential Brooklyn Heights

Not since Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett has there been such an existential use of YouTube: Continue Reading →

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