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From Poppa Fink’s archives comes this promo shot of former NYC Commissioner of Public Events/ Knicks star Bud Palmer BBQing atop a building somewhere in Brooklyn Heights circa 1971.   The address of the BUG photo lab is stamped on the back of the picture: 195 Montague Street.  According to Pops, the shot was used in Brooklyn Union Gas pamphlets.   Palmer, who earned an honorary salary of $1 per year working for the city paid the bills as an ABC sportscaster and spokesperson. Anyone have an idea on where this was shot?

Brooklyn Heights in 2009 will be about preserving the neighborhood’s landmarks and property values, and it’s fair to say everything the community hoped and wished for in 2008 did not always go as planned, Brooklyn Heights Association President Tom van den Bout told a packed crowd last night.

“I hereby officially call for a ‘do-over’ [of 2008],” van den Bout said. “Not that last year was a total disaster, but let’s just say it did not quite go as planned.” [PDF of the minutes from the meeting]

We spoke with van den Bout after the meeting last night to get his full thoughts on what lay ahead: Read more »

Photo by Andrew Porter

Borough President Marty Markowitz compared the task of evaluating the Dock Street rezoning proposal to a root canal last night at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting — yes, a root canal.

Making a decision was tough, he said, but he understood that “it had to be done, like a root canal.”

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Our award winning live blog from the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual Meeting.

7:32pm TK Small in the house. First BHB Ten member sighting.

BHB Chief Correspondent Sarah Portlock is staying away from me and Qfwfq … she’ll have a real update later… Read more »

After BHB reported on the planned expansion of 116 Montague Street, currently home to Sleepy’s,   images from the owner’s original-LPC-rejected plans surfaced in online reports.

BHB has obtained the updated, LPC approved  elevations from John S. Newman, of Lindsay Newman Arch & Design .

New, better, improved? What do you think? [Larger image via PDF here]

Borough President Marty Markowitz has filed his letter of support for the contentious Dock Street residential project in DUMBO, following a public hearing he held on Jan. 28.

We will have a copy of Marty’s letter for you soon, but in the meantime, the New York Times City Room blog writes: Read more »

An hour and half before our flight, my bag already checked through for Newark, it was time to crate my trembling, skittish yellow gallows-dog. She began the simple process by refusing to be weighed. I lifted her onto the metal scale and fed her a cookie while the digital read-out settled at 72 pounds. I wrote a hefty check, cursing my mother for not breeding dachshunds, opened the crate door, took her by the collar and led her to it. She bolted out of her collar. OK, I thought, we’ve had our titular show of resistance and now she’ll go in. Read more »

Work may appear to have quieted down at the construction site at 20 Henry Street, raising some eyebrows — but that’s not to say nothing’s happening, a spokeswoman for the developer said on Wednesday.

We received a tip that the work at the building — a conversion of the legendary Peak Mints candy factory to luxury condos — has stopped, pending financing concerns. Read more »