This just in from the BHB Inbox: I am curious to see if anyone else has reported a string of tires being slashed in the past 48 hours. 2 of our tires were slashed on Joralemon Street (between Hicks and Willow) between Monday and Tuesday nights. My husband said a woman stopped him last night […]
Archive | June, 2009
BQE Rehab Meeting Recap
Today, the New York State Department of Transportation held two project scoping sessions about the two-decade rehabilitation of the 1.5 mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street, and local community members turned up to express their desires and concerns. The meetings began with a brief introduction regarding the need for […]
This Week’s Community Calendar
(BHB/Sarah Portlock) Transportation dominates the community calendar this week, including tonight’s major public meetings about the upcoming major rehabilitation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and tomorrow’s public comment meeting about the future of Tillary Street. (1) Today, the state Department of Transportation holds two identical three-hour sessions about the major reconstruction project along the triple cantilevered portion […]
Picnic chairs now at Boro Hall
The tables and chairs from the Montague Street pedestrian plaza have finally found a new home. Each day this summer, the street furniture — 25 tables and 80 chairs in total — will be out in front of Borough Hall for the public from 8 am to 6 pm. Per an email from Montague Street […]
You Could Be Armando’s Excecutive Chef
Think you’ve got the “skillz” necessary to be the Executive Chef at the new revamped Armando’s? All you gotta do is answer their Craigslist ad: Craigslist: Executive chef needed for soon to open (currently undergoing gut renovation), high volume Italian restaurant. In operation since 1936 and under the same ownership for the last 28 years. […]
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper 6/22/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines – in case you missed ’em! Only on BHB Busted Again: The Busy Chef Never Rests! Mixed Use: Gallery+Real Estate Park Progress: Piers 1 and 6 (Sixteenth Report) Big BQE Public Meeting Monday 84th Precinct Police Blotter – 6/19/09 Rabbi Raskin recognized as a rising star Open Thread: […]
New Brooklyn Heights Blogger: “Tiger in the Kitchen” Cheryl Tan
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Conversation with Cheryl Tan from Mark Joyella on Vimeo. The BHB’s Mark Joyella interviews Brooklyn blogger and author Cheryl Tan, whose food and photo blog and upcoming book–both titled “A Tiger in the Kitchen”–chronicle her adventures in eating, from Cardemom cookies in Brooklyn Heights, to offbeat eats in Asia, […]
Mixed Use: Gallery+Real Estate
This is Robert E. Franklin, writer, painter, realtor, in the office of Brick Realty on Atlantic Avenue. He stands in front of a photogram by Amy Burchenal. It is part of an exhibit called Cultivated Shadows. The artist describes a photogram as a photographic image made without a camera— by placing objects directly onto the […]
Solstice
A breeze batters branches; the honey locust whispers, ¡Esperanza, esperanza! On the harbor, tugs flit on fathomless errands, and beyond, the dentate skyline no longer bears the memory of Yamasaki’s towers, their image now recumbent in brass at my feet. A squirrel, brazen, fixes me with blank eyes while lithe young women, buttocks bobbing in […]
Park Progress: Piers 1 and 6 (Sixteenth Report)
Friday, June 12, 2009. Friday, June 19, 2009. I’ve decided, for the time being, to feature comparative photos of Pier 6 in this weekly post, since I’ve now found a good vantage point–the roof of the LICH parking garage–from which to shoot it. Comparative photos of the north and south ends of Pier 1 follow […]
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