Alternate-Side Parking Returns Sept. 14

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Alternate-Side Parking Returns Sept. 14

By Thomas on August 31, 2009 5:47 pm in Brooklyn Heights, News, Transportation

Just received word that starting September 14, alternate-side parking regulations will go back into effect in the Brooklyn Heights area, following a nine-week suspension as new signs were installed.

The suspension affected the Brooklyn Heights area north of Joralemon Street while the Department of Transportation installed more than 2,000 new, reduced street sweeping regulation signs.

Starting September 8, however, the small area south of Joralemon Street and north of Atlantic Avenue (but not including those two streets) will have alternate-side regulations suspended for their own six to eight week replacement period. Continue Reading →

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Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper 8/31/09

By Homer Fink on August 31, 2009 11:10 am in Brooklyn Heights

Here are some of last week’s BHB headlines you may have missed:

Official BHB Reader Endorsement Poll: The Herd for the 33rd

Markowitz Featured in Good Housekeeping Article

BHB Contributor Talks to Jayson Blair, Life Coach

Area Man is Vanilla Ice Expert

Marty Backs Lopez’s Levin for 33rd

Park Progress: Twenty-Fifth Report, and a Contest Winner

Biviano Accuses Thies of Running Anonymous Blog

84th Precinct Police Blotter – 8/26/09

‘Summer Space’ Returns to Montague Street

Curry Spot in Brooklyn Heights May Be Good

Brooklyn Paper Hates Brooklyn Heights Landmark Lighting Plan

SNL Writer/Brooklyn Heights Resident Simon Rich Names Giamatti a NY Superhero

From Cobble Hill Blog:

Jonathan Adler opens on Atlantic Avenue

Sohn/Smartmom Faceoff: Nobody’s Right if Everybody’s Wrong

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Is Brooklyn Heights Man Engaged to Supermodel?

By Homer Fink on August 31, 2009 10:33 am in Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents

E ntertainment news sources are speculating that Tyra Banks is now engaged to financier/ Brooklyn Heights resident John Utendahl after she was spotted wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring at last night’s Daytime Emmy Awards. Banks’ talk show won a Daytime Emmy last night in the “informative” category.

The pair were recently seen in Brookyn Heights at Peas ‘n’ Pickles on Henry Street stocking up on frozen food.

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Urban Sketcher’s Take on LICH ER

By Claude Scales on August 30, 2009 12:24 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill, Health

While waiting to have his tongue stitched back together, Urban Sketcher Jason Das jotted down these impressions of the LICH emergency room.

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Heights rooftops.

By Claude Scales on August 29, 2009 9:55 pm in Photos

BHB photo by C. Scales

Taken from the LICH parking garage, June, 2009.

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Markowitz Featured in Good Housekeeping Article

By Thomas on August 28, 2009 5:55 pm in Brooklyn Heights

BH resident Valerie Frankel recently set out on a mission to curb her complaining, and chronicled her quest in Good Housekeeping. In her piece, Frankel speaks to Marty Markowitz about how politicians replace words with negative connotations with positive sounding words:

I called Marty Markowitz, president of the great borough of Brooklyn (a.k.a. home), to ask about semantics versus reality. “You can be optimistic and realistic at the same time,” he said. “I know times are tough and people are hurting, but if you’ve got a sour puss, everyone feels sour along with you. Those of us in leadership positions have to reinforce the positive instead of dwelling on the negative.” He encouraged me to count my blessings. Yes, my fridge was broken, but I could afford take-out. I still had a house to keep my broken fridge in.

I tried to channel Marty, to put on a sunshiny puss. But it was a struggle — I mean, a journey. Clearly I had no future in politics.

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“Other” Ken Speaks Out in Council Race

By Homer Fink on August 28, 2009 7:32 am in Brooklyn Heights

NYC Council D-33 candidate Ken Baer is profiled in the Brooklyn Eagle:

Brooklyn Eagle: “I am the only candidate among seven who does not use a car, so I won’t need a special parking permit. I travel by mass transit and favor bicycling,” said Baer. His background includes being the New York State Sierra Club leader, filing eminent domain lawsuits for “Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn” on Atlantic Yards and being an accountant.

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BHB Contributor Talks to Jayson Blair, Life Coach

By Homer Fink on August 27, 2009 4:06 pm in Brooklyn Heights

Sure BHB contributor/Annoying Husband Mark Joyella got tons of attention last week due to the website his wife has dedicated to him. However, amongst all that hullabaloo, he found the time to interview the infamous journalist turned life coach Jayson Blair for his Coach Reporter podcast. It’s a fascinating listen. Check it our here.

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Area Man is Vanilla Ice Expert

By Homer Fink on August 27, 2009 11:53 am in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

BHB pal/Brooklyn Heights resident Chuck Taylor is going to be on the Biography Channel discussing a great icon of history — Vanilla Ice:

Chuck Taylor Blog: In February, I blah blah blahed about Vanilla Ice for A&E’s “Biography.” It’s confirmed that I’m appearing as a media talking head in the episode, which is at last airing on the Biography Channel Thursday, Aug. 27 at 9 p.m., with an encore four hours later, Friday, Aug. 28 at 1 a.m. Hope you can tune in, cool cats.

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Official BHB Reader Endorsement Poll: The Herd for the 33rd

By Homer Fink on August 27, 2009 11:14 am in Brooklyn Heights, Election09

The Democratic primary for the 33rd NYC Council District is September 15. On September 14, we will announce the BHB Reader’s Candidate based upon the results of this poll. This is a new poll, so if you voted in our previous “unofficial” one, you’ll need to vote one more time.

BHB, the Brooklyn Bugle and Cobble Hill Blog’s editorial board never endorses candidates. Sure we may stir the pot a little but the act of endorsing a candidate is the sole domain of you, our readers. Vote away! Continue Reading →

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Marty Backs Lopez’s Levin for 33rd

By Homer Fink on August 27, 2009 10:23 am in Election09

Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz endorsed Vito Lopez staffer Steve Levin as his pick of the Herd for the 33rd yesterday:

Brooklyn Paper: In thinly veiled language, Markowitz made it clear that he endorsed Levin because he is the only candidate who supports the city’s plan for the Broadway Triangle, which opponents say is flawed because the city gave a no-bid contract to two Lopez-linked non-profits.

“I know Steve’s opponents think process is more important than results … but he understands that results are the most important thing,” said Markowitz.

How does this make “the people” feel? Well there’s only one guy who can sum up what some folks in Brooklyn are feeling – Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder:

Atlantic Yards Report: One of the enduring (and simplified) debates regarding the legacies of urbanist Jane Jacobs and master builder/power broker Robert Moses is the balance between results and process.

You can’t make an omelet, Moses liked to say, without breaking eggs, and Moses was notably callous about the impact of his major projects on the people living in the way. On the other hand, neighborhood activists invoking Jacobs have used process to gum up any change, even when it might be wise and even though Jacobs did believe in certain big projects, like public transit.

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Park Progress: Twenty-Fifth Report, and a Contest Winner

By Claude Scales on August 26, 2009 5:31 pm in Brooklyn Heights, News

Your correspondent has returned from vacation, and resumed his photographic rounds.

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North end, Pier 1, Friday, August 14, 2009.

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North end, Pier 1, Tuesday, August 25, 2009. In my previous report, I proposed a contest to name the hill that has been constructed on the north end of Pier 1, which begins near the bottom of this photo, with its sinuous route traced by a road or walkway leading up to a summit near the photo’s center. One reader, “Willowtown”, proposed calling it “Regina Ridge” in honor of Regina Myer, President of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation. Another, “Rochdalian”, suggested “Whitman Hill”. (A third advocated naming it for a Whitman poem.) I’ve decided to combine the two proposals and submit that the whole structure be named “Regina Ridge”, but that its summit be called “Whitman Peak”.

More photos and text follow the jump. Continue Reading →

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Biviano Accuses Thies of Running Anonymous Blog

By Thomas on August 26, 2009 3:16 pm in Brooklyn Heights

In recent weeks a new blog, Real Reform Brooklyn, has sprung up and posted critiques of candidates for the 33rd District City Council seat, primarily Jo Anne Simon and Steve Levin.