BHB pal/neighborhood resident/web guru/ ABC News Radio’s Dan Patterson is Homer’s guest on the latest episode of The New Homer Fink Show. Homer and Dan discuss Walter Cronkite, Twitter, Michael Jackson and Homer’s pal/ financial provocateur Max Keiser. Listen after the jump or download MP3.
Archive | July, 2009
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper: 7/20/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines in case you missed ’em: Only on BHB: Park Progress, with a Bonus Shot from the Karaoke Cruise (Twentieth Report) Mr. Junkersfeld’s Neighborhood and Beyond No parking at Riverside Garage? 84th Precinct: Mid-Year Recap Heights History: The Opinionated Bernard Atkins Will Tim Hortons Make Doughnuts on Premises? The […]
LIRR Excursion Celebrates 175th Anniversary
Next Saturday, July 25, the Long Island Rail Road will celebrate its 175th anniversary with a one day excursion that will depart from LIRR’s Atlantic Avenue station at 8:12 A.M. and return at 8:42 P.M. The special train will travel the entire length of the main line to Greenport, on the North Fork, with stopovers […]
Governors Island Video by Times
The New York Times has produced an informative and picturesque video, narrated by Corey Kilgannon, about Governors Island, now accessable by ferry from Fulton Landing. You can read about Homer and Mrs. Fink’s visit to the Island here.
Park Progress, with a Bonus Shot from the Karaoke Cruise (Twentieth Report)
Friday, July 10,2009. Friday, July 17, 2009. The trucks keep rolling in with more fill material. After the jump, there’s a sea level view of the hill that’s grown near the center of Pier 1.
Mr. Junkersfeld’s Neighborhood and Beyond
Brooklyn Heights own version of D.A. Pennebaker, Karl Junkersfeld is back with more of his unique kind of video vérité. In this first clip he celebrates NYC Restaurant Week. After the jump his epic three part tour of Fort Greene, a must-see for anyone who dreams to venture beyond the boundaries of Brooklyn Heights.
Obama Arrives Under Watchful Eyes
Wondering what the racket was this afternoon? A police helicopter hovered low over the Heights as a flight of Marine Corps choppers, one of them carrying President Obama to his speaking engagement in Manhattan this evening, swooped down over the Buttermilk Channel and landed at the Downtown Heliport. Update: Yesterday I thought the helicopter noise […]
No parking at Riverside Garage?
Updated Thursday at 4:50 pm BHB just got word that the state Division of Housing & Community Renewal has rejected the landlord’s proposal to build a garage at the Riverside Apartments at the westernmost end of Joralemon Street. Ken Fisher, the attorney for landlord Pinnacle Group, told BHB, “While we are disappointed, this is only […]
84th Precinct: Mid-Year Recap
This week, the 84th precinct was closed to reporters, so in lieu of police blotters this week, we thought we’d do a quick analysis of crime trends so far in 2009.
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