The Brooklyn Historical Society, Clinton and Pierrepont Streets, will present “Listening to Women: Documenting Women’s Lives through Oral History”, a six week non-credit course taught by Sady Sullivan, oral historian at BHS. This seminar will introduce the practice of Oral History as an historical methodology, a unique narrative genre, and a tool in the reconciliation […]
Archive | February, 2009
American Idol’s Date in Brooklyn Heights
American Idol Taylor Hicks and contest winner Julie Courtney hit Brooklyn Heights last week as part of Live with Regis and Kelly’s “Dating with the Stars”. Fast forward to the 4:18 mark and see Mr. Soul Patrol and friend yuck it up on the Promenade and at the River Cafe.
BHA: Brooklyn Heights Sidewalks Crooked and Dangerous
The Brooklyn Heights Association’s Winter 2009 Newsletter [PDF] offers updates on many neighborhood issues including LICH, the group’s annual meeting and vibrations coming from the BQE cantilever. However this item, quoted below, is what struck us as the most interesting – the treacherous and uneven sidewalks of Brooklyn Heights: BHB Winter 2009 Newsletter: The New […]
Isn’t it Ironic: Folding Bed Biz Folds
Judging from this photo from Chuck Taylor, it looks like the Montague Street outlet of Jennifer Convertibles has gone the way of Spicy Pickle.
NYT Features Hicks Street Family Apartment
The New York Times writes about the apartment of Hicks Street residents Kimberly Oliver and Stuart Sclater-Booth: NYT: Habitats: Luckily, friends were giving up their apartment in a town house on Hicks Street, in one of the quaintest parts of Brooklyn Heights. (The cross streets have names like Cranberry and Orange.) The red-brick building was […]
Gardening in Brooklyn Heights
Casa Cara features a second floor terrace garden tended by Elke of Brooklyn Heights: Casa Cara: A true gardener like Elke, whose outdoor space is a 15′x25′ terrace behind her second-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights, doesn’t let a few obstacles stop her. No car? No worries. She does her plant-shopping on foot at the Borough […]
One Word…Plastics
Recent high winds have left the otherwise bare branches of many Heights trees festooned with plastic bags and other trash blown out of trash cans or off the ground. An especially large example can be seen streaming from this tree adjacent to the southern end of the Promenade, at the foot of Remsen Street.
Spicy Pickle For Rent
The Spicy Pickle on Montague Street abruptly closed on Friday. On Saturday, a For Rent sign was already in the window of the location.
We Want…a Shrubbery!
We don’t know if the Knights Who Say “Ni!” have visited Remsen Street between Henry and Hicks lately, but this lovely shrubbery has been sitting in the middle of the sidewalk on the south side of the street for some days now, no doubt guarding travelers against a defect in the paving stone.
Squadron to Host “Community Convention” March 15
State Senator Daniel Squadron, whose district includes the Heights and nearby Brooklyn neighborhoods as well as lower Manhattan, is hosting a “Community Convention” on Sunday, March 15, from 3:00 to 6:00pm, at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, just west of Greenwich. In Squadron’s words: As part of my plan to make our […]
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