Archive | June, 2008

Bloomberg’s Mysak on Brooklyn Heights, Suburbs and Stuff

Bloomberg’s Joe Mysak writes about the suburbs not being dead yet and manages to shoehorn in a Brooklyn Heights reference:

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NY Daily News: Folks Freaking Over B’Law Parking

As we reported earlier this week, Brooklyn Law students have been invited back to the Columbus Park parking lot (aka the “judge’s lot”) after years of being banned due to a student-guard confrontation.  The NY Daily News gets community reaction to the plan and it ain’t pretty:

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Music at the Bridge Schedule Announced

Music at the Bridge, a free summer concert series presented by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation,  will kick off this year on July 9 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park’s Tobacco Warehouse.   This year’s shows are “curated’ by several Brooklyn tastemakers including the […]

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Cascade Commences

Olafur Eliasson’s artificial waterfall positioned below the Promenade was operating this morning, well ahead of its scheduled June 26 debut. Above is a view from near the foot of Remsen Street, complete with rainbow.

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Brooklyn Heights Residents Notice Shrinking Packages

The NY Daily News comes to Brooklyn Heights to uncover the latest wrinkle in the food price explosion — shrinking packages: NY Daily News: Food packages…: “Edy’s [ice cream] got smaller!” said Alison Koeppel, 58, as she picked up a cold container in a Brooklyn Heights Key Food supermarket. “They’re ripping us off once again.” […]

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Waterfall: On! (Sorta)

The Brooklyn Heights side of the NYC Waterfalls project was tested today. Olafur Eliasson’s public art project goes live next Thursday. BHB Photo Club pic by Talkagan

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Open Thread Wednesday 6/18/08

What’s on your mind? Any news or upcoming events you’d like to share? Comment away! Flick photo by The Peach Tree

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Brooklyn Law Students Get New Parking Spaces

From the BHB Inbox comes news that Brooklyn Law students will now have access to the “judge’s” parking lot at Columbus Park. Access to students had been cut off several years ago due to “an angry confrontation” between a student and a parking lot guard. The following email from a BHB reader and the original […]

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What Hurts Today?

Even in hot weather, I take one hot bath a week in order to soften the calluses on my feet so I can razor them off and sand them down. As soon as my left hand hit the water, the bruise I knew Pickering had inflicted – along with a superficial bite – bloomed into […]

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Love Lane Mews: One Partner Buys Out the Other

Brownstoner reports today that the Zucker Group has paid its partner in the Love Lane Mews condo project, Sterling Equities, $10 million for the “parcels that compromise” the project.

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