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Brooklynites are invited to celebrate the second anniversary of Housing Works Thrift Shops thriving Brooklyn location at a free and open-to-the-public in-store party on Thursday, January 29 from 7pm to 9pm. (Housing Works members get in at 6pm, a full hour early! Join Housing Works—you’ll do good and save big). Housing Works Brooklyn Thrift Shop is located at 122 Montague Street. Continue Reading →
The virus attacked on Saturday of last week. Nothing could stop it, and I tried. I had spyware protection. I had virus protection. I had firewalls. This Trojan Horse plowed through everything and shut me down for a week. The Geek Squad at Best Buy tried everything— but it was so deeply encrypted, so deeply malicious and maliciously smart, that it resisted every effort to eradicate it. Finally nothing was left but to erase everything from my computer and start over. I have all my files backed up on a flash drive so I wasn’t worried about losing a script or a syllabus, a short story or a novel. Continue Reading →
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The Office of the Kings County Borough President will be holding a public hearing today regarding Two Trees’ Dock Street DUMBO Project. The building has supporters who claim that affordable housing and a middle school make that project worthy while opponents say that the structure will be out of scale with the neighborhood and would block views of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Have an opinion? Want to be heard? It’s put up or shut up time tonight:
What: Brooklyn Beep’s Public Hearing on Dock Street DUMBO
Where: Court Room, Second Floor, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY
When: Today (1/27/09), 4pm – 9pm.
Looks like it’s full speed ahead for David Yassky’s bid for New York City comptroller. The NY Daily News reports that he’s tapped Democratic “fixer” and fellow disciple of Sen. Chuck Schumer Josh Isay as a campaign staffer. Isay, the paper says, is taking “at least some of the blame” for Caroline Kennedy’s botched bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Isay worked on Yvette Clarke’s congressional campaign and was part of the team that killed Yassky’s Washington D.C. dream in 2006.
Seems like the news is slow today, so what’s on your mind? What stories are percolatin’ out there that you’d like us to investigate?
The NY Daily News profiles Brooklyn Heights resident Stevie Jones who spends her weekends helping out at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary:
New York Daily News: Animal Lover…: Now, every Saturday, the Brooklyn Heights resident hops on a 7 a.m. Adirondack Trailways bus from Port Authority for the two-hour ride to the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, a 20-acre oasis, in upstate Willow, near Woodstock, which is home to a menagerie of abused and abandoned farm animals.
Armed with bags of apples, bananas and berries for the goats, and veggie treats for the barn cats, Jones spends the day shoveling out barns, cleaning up cow patties and laying down fresh straw for the pigs in their feeding station.
“I even got to bottle-feed a lamb, which was awesome,” said Jones, 30, who returns home to her two cats the same night. “Once I made time for it, I realized it energizes me.”
The Brooklyn Eagle reports:
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — On Sunday, Jan. 25, beginning at 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, 124 Henry St., a distinguished panel of professionals who served on President Obama’s transition team, will talk about their experiences, provide critical information and take questions from the audience.
Read more here. Further information can be found at the Church’s website or by calling 718-624-3770.
Brooklyn Heights resident/filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film Sin Nombre is being hailed as one of the best flicks at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Members of the Brooklyn Heights Association received this dispatch moments ago regarding the organizations opposition to Two Trees’ Dock Street DUMBO project: Continue Reading →
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McBrooklyn reports that the totally annoying ripping up of Henry Street is all about Verizon installing FIOS in the nabe. For those of you still using rabbit ears, maybe now is the time to prepare yourself for the much-over-hyped flip to Digital TV.
Brownstoner is reporting that Five Guys Burgers and Fries will be moving into the vacated Busy Chef space on Court Street. No word if this is an additional outlet or if the chain would be vacating its Montague Street location.
Update: The Brooklyn Paper follows up on Brownstoner’s report and finds that Five Guys will not be moving into this space. They are, however, looking for other Brooklyn locations. The building’s landlord tells the B’Paper that the store has been rented but would not reveal the tenant’s name.
World renowned novelist Salman Rushdie will lecture in Founders’ Hall of St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, on Monday, March 9 at 12:30 P.M. No topic for his lecture, which is part of the College’s Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series, has been announced. Rushdie, a native of Mumbai, India, is the author of several award-winning novels, including: Midnight’s Children
The lecture is open to the public and free. If you plan to attend, please RSVP @stfranciscollege.edu or call 718-489-5214 or 646-369-8988.
The Brooklyn Paper reported this week that the hotel and condos planned as part of Brooklyn Bridge Park have been put on hold indefinetly. And while that’s good news for folks who wanted an actual PARK, no one seems to have a straight answer on what’s going to happen next.
The New York Post reports on the story today:
Judi Francis, who heads a grass-roots group fighting to keep housing off the parkland, was heartened by the news.
“We knew that once people begin to use this park, there would be bloodshed to take it back for housing,” she said.
Brooklyn Tattoo’s Adam Suerte sends in this photo of pals hanging out at the Montague Street Burger King in the 80′s.
Have a Heights Flashback photo? Send ‘em to us webmaster AT brooklynheightsblog.com
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