Lethem to Speak at St. Francis Next Thursday

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Lethem to Speak at St. Francis Next Thursday

By Claude Scales on October 31, 2008 11:51 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events

This in from St. Francis College:

St. Francis College is proud to announce the start of the Walt Whitman Writers Series, a new literary program that brings top contemporary authors to campus to share their work and writing experiences with students, faculty and the entire Brooklyn community. The inaugural speaker will be acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem, a Brooklyn native who has penned The New York Times Best Seller The Fortress of Solitude, as well as the highly praised Motherless Brooklyn and his most recent novel, You Don’t Love Me Yet. The event, Thursday November 6 at 4:00pm will include a reading and talk by Lethem as well as a question & answer session.

Admission is free. Please RSVP on St. Francis’ website.

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CO2: It’s a Gas at Secret Science Club Next Wednesday.

By Claude Scales on October 31, 2008 11:34 pm in Events, Fun, Nightlife

Next Wednesday morning you may wake up with a hangover from an election victory celebration or from drowning your sorrows in Scotch, but by the evening you may be ready to party again, and to learn something in the process. Perhaps something important about the environment, which, depending on the outcome of the election, and your views, may finally be about to receive the attention it deserves, or too much attention, or not enough. If you’re game, you should plan to attend Secret Science Club at the Bell House, 149 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, in Gowanus. This edition of SSC will feature Tyler Volk, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the NYU Environmental Studies Program, whose latest book is CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge. Tyler is also a guitarist and vocalist for The Amygdaloids. Continue Reading →

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Hooters? Not Likely

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 5:17 pm in Food, Government

We’ve heard that some people on the Internets have mentioned a “rumor” started by “someone who posted a sign” at 60 Henry regarding a Hooters moving into that space. First, let’s just all calm down and remember the whole “Cigar Bar” hoax of 2007 (and its lame follow up Penelope’s Playspace) at that same location. Add to that the fact that Community Board 2 has not received notification for any establishment seeking to serve alcohol at 60 Henry. Not to mention that there’s no LPC application asking to hang, say, a giant HOOTERS SIGN at that location. We’ve contacted Hooters PR and are awaiting a response on this story as well.

However we are grateful this “rumor” gives us the license to use this awesome clip from South Park.

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French Navy Ship Visits Brooklyn.

By Claude Scales on October 31, 2008 4:59 pm in Maritime, News

The French missile tracking ship Monge, named for the 18th-19th century mathematician Gaspard Monge, is docked at Pier 7 near Columbia Street just south of Atlantic Avenue. Need to brush up on conversational French? Drop in to Montero’s or other Atlantic Avenue watering holes this weekend.

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Some Crime is Up in the 84th; Still Not the Bad Old Days

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 2:23 pm in crime, News

With comments like this one on BHB:

I am worried for my safety as well in the evenings. I used to feel totally comfortable walking all over the neighborhood and I don’t now – I feel like a target. Is there anyone on this board that can speak to what the local police are doing to heighten their patrol?

We wondered if crime is really on the rise in Brooklyn Heights and the 84th Precinct. According to CompStat numbers covering the period of 10/20 – 10/26, the answer is yes…sorta. Continue Reading →

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Recycle Electronics Tomorrow in Cobble Hill

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 2:09 pm in Events

Homer’s cousin/CHA Prexy Jeff “Hussein” Strabone and the Cobble Hill Association are hosting an electronics recycling event tomorrow (11/1) in Cobble Hill. Details at CHB.

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Hidden Heights History Halloween

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 12:35 pm in Brooklyn Heights

Take a walk around Brooklyn Heights this Halloween with a new point of view using our “Hidden Heights History” map:

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BHA Urges Members to Help Save LICH

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 10:00 am in Government, Health, News

The Brooklyn Heights Association is urging its members to mobilize and urge government officials to stop Continuum Partners, managers of Long Island College Hospital, from cutting services at the facility.

NYS SD25 candidates Daniel Squadron and John Chromczak discussed the issue at BHB’s The Great Debate on Tuesday night and our own TK Small and Claude Scales discussed it on Brooklyn Independent Television a few weeks ago.

The BHA’s email to its membership and a sample letter to officials after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Happy Halloween… Now Vote!

By Homer Fink on October 31, 2008 8:31 am in Brooklyn Heights

BHB Photo Club pic by fkuffel via Flicrk

BHB Photo Club pic by fkuffel via Flickr

Speaking of voting, please take our BHB Voter Poll. It will determine who the BHB Community endorses in the NYS SD25 contest as well as the Presidential race. Vote here now. Thanks!

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Brooklyn Women’s Exchange “Holiday Thursdays” Events

By Claude Scales on October 31, 2008 12:27 am in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Kids

Starting next Thursday, November 6, the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, a not-for-profit, volunteer organization that provides a marketplace for locally handmade craft goods, including infants’ and children’s clothing, toys, housewares and gifts, and books by local authors or about local subjects, will host its annual “Holiday Thursdays”, during which artists, craftspeople and authors will be present to demonstrate their techniques or crafts, or read from and sign their books. The Exchange is located at 55 Pierrepont Street, between Henry and Hicks. The schedule of events is as follows:

Thursday, November 6:
11:30-6:30. Artist Deborah O’Connor will create a silhouette of your child in minutes. Please call 718-624-3435 for an appointment.
1:00-3:00. Fine needleworker Betty Anderson will demonstrate the art of cross-stitch and display her pillows. Continue Reading →

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The Great Debate Replay

By Homer Fink on October 30, 2008 7:58 am in Election08

BHB Photo by Marc Hermann

For those of you who couldn’t make it out to BHB’s NYS SD 25 debate aka The Great Debate: Squadron vs. Chromczak on Tuesday night, you can view it in its entirety after the jump.

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Heights Couple Stage Tempest

By Claude Scales on October 30, 2008 12:38 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

Montague Street resident Judith Jarosz, Artistic Director of Theater 1010, has produced and directs a new version of Shakespeare’s final play, the dark-edged comedy The Tempest. Her husband, David Fuller, plays the leading role of Prospero (perhaps you’ve seen him on the street with his magnificently tended beard and moustache–see the cast video above). Reviews of the play are here; one reviewer greatly preferred Fuller’s Prospero to that of Mandy Patinkin.

The play runs through November 16. Theater 1010 is located at 1010 Park Avenue, between 84th and 85th Streets, in Manhattan. Tickets, all of which are $20.00, may be purchased through Theatermania or by calling Theater 1010 at 212-288-3246 x300.

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Un-Term Limited Millman Slapskys Yassky

By Homer Fink on October 29, 2008 3:59 pm in Government

It’s days like this that we have to really give a big High Five to our special friend Gersh Kuntzman errr The Politicker errr Politicrasher who is totally NOT Gersh at the Brooklyn Paper. Witness this deconstruction of reaction to City Councilman David Yassky’s two step on term limits:

Brooklyn Paper: They lyin…: Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D–Carroll Gardens) also attacked Yassky’s integrity.

“What he did was not the progressive thing,” said Millman. “It outraged people. And his explanation was convoluted and torturous. If you put forth an amendment, you need to gather support for it. And if it fails, you should vote against the bill. I certainly would have voted against changing term limits.”

(A cynic would point out that as a member of the Assembly, the only term limit that a Democrat like Millman faces is death, but why be cynical in a story about a topic so pure as David Yassky’s term-limit vote?)

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