Archive | July, 2008

Kuntzman Responds to BHB…On Gothamist

My name is Homer Fink and I wear the Scarlet Letter of being a BLOGGER. Or so says Gersh Kuntzman, Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Paper and my special friend, on Gothamist today.  Responding to our story last week about what we knew and when we knew it about the Busted Chef caper and how we […]

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Hang Ten

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Brooklyn Heights Gossip Girl Alert

Gossip Girl will be all up in the nabe today, reportedly filming at Packer and other spots.  This makes us happy because the show RULES and it gives us another chance to talk about Chuck Bass.  Y’know he’s the greatest TV character since Frank Burns on M*A*S*H:

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Pop Up Park Makes People Happy

In today’s New York Post, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy President Mariana Koval says that Brooklyn Bridge Park will be “to the 21st Century what Central Park was to the city in the 19th Century.”  Everyone seems really jazzed about the glimpse we’re getting of the BBP of the future this summer via the “Pop Up […]

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John Catsimatidis’ Myrtle Avenue Stalemate or Do You Really Think This Guy Can Be Mayor?

Gristedes supermarket king pin John Catsimatidis’ Myrtle Avenue condo/supermarket project is stalled according to a report in today’s NY Daily News.  Apparently, Catsimatidis was so confident at one point in the inevitability of the project’s completion that he demolished the neighborhood’s only supermarket to make way for construction.  We found this passage in the Daily […]

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Theft at 132 Montague, Tenants On Guard

Residents at 132 Montague Street came upon this notice posted in their building this morning: Attention Tenants: There was a burglary in Apt. 6 on Saturday, 7/26/2008 during the early hours of the morning. I was sleeping through it all, as was my roommate. We heard nothing. My Toshiba laptop and my wallet were stolen. […]

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Nice View

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The Busted Chef Chronicles Part 3: We May Be Dumb, But We’re Not Stupid

The Busy Chef E-mail File and What We Told The Brooklyn Paper a Year Ago That They Didn’t Print A little over a year ago, BHB began receiving information from people claiming to have ties with accused fraudster Dan “Busted Chef” Kaufman. They spun tales of someone who was capable of lying to your face […]

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Nabe to Ikea Shuttle: You Stink!

The Brooklyn Eagle reports on neighborhood frustration over the Red Hook Ikea shuttle bunging up traffic on Joralemon Street: Brooklyn Eagle: Ikea Shuttles…: Congestion on Joralemon Street has increased in any case since the experimental elimination of left turns from Adams Street onto Tillary Street. Traffic that would normally make a left turn onto Tillary […]

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Adopt a Pet Sunday at Montague Piazza

Our pal Chelsea Mauldin of Montague BID sends this dispatch regarding this Sunday’s FINAL Montague Street Piazza: A quick update regarding our upcoming — and final — Summer Space Sunday. Once again, Montague Street businesses will be offering free outdoor yoga (11 am, in front of Yoga People, 160 Montague) and free kids’ arts activities (3 pm, […]

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