The Brooklyn Eagle’s Brad “Mick” Lockwood offers up this video tour of Brooklyn Writers starting in Brooklyn Heights.
Archive | September, 2009
The Homer Fink Show Rewind – David Yassky
In case you missed it last Spring, here’s a special edition of The Homer Fink Show taped at David Yassky’s Blogger Breakfast in May (thanks to Michael DD White for the audio). The NYC Comptroller Democratic run-off is tomorrow.
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper 9/28/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines… in case you missed ’em! Citizens Union Chief Rips Yassky Brooklyn Heights Brownstone Featured in New York Social Diary Millman Sounds Off on Obama vs. Paterson 280 Hicks Street Up for Auction Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Back from Holidays Plymouth Church School Adds Classrooms Park Progress: Twenty Eighth Report, […]
Citizens Union Chief Rips Yassky
A column in this week’s Village Voice deconstructs the David Yassky vs John Liu Democratic run-off race for comptroller. In it, Citizens Union honcho Dick Dadey sounds off about Yassky’s flip-flop on term limits: Village Voice: “He didn’t have any hesitation,” said Dadey. “He indicated to me he would not support overturning the term-limits law […]
Brooklyn Heights Brownstone Featured in New York Social Diary
The Brooklyn Heights brownstone of designer Kathryn Scott and artist Wenda Gu is featured in New York Social Diary: NYSD: They are both organized and thorough to a point that fascinated us. Kathryn physically learned how to do various skills such as carpentry when the house was being renovated (one floor also serves as an […]
“Art under the Bridge” in DUMBO This Weekend
The DUMBO Arts Center presents its thirteenth annual Art under the Bridge festival, beginning tomorrow evening, September 25, and continuing through Sunday, September 27. According to DAC’s press release: The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now […]
Iran Protest on Cadman Plaza
Protesters held placards facing traffic on Cadman Plaza this morning as a crowd gathered in the Park behind to show their opposition to the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
Millman Sounds Off on Obama vs. Paterson
The flap regarding President Obama’s reported desire for our “accidental” Governor David Paterson to step aside in next year’s election continues with our gal in the State Assembly Joan Millman weighing in. Here’s the speculation about the horse trading allegedly going on – Paterson bows out, and Andrew Cuomo runs against Rudy Giuliani, thereby saving […]
280 Hicks Street Up for Auction
Curbed reports today that 280 Hicks Street, owned by the estate of the late Alfie Palmer, will be auctioned off on October 6 by the Kings County Public Administrator [PDF with info here]. Palmer was best know in Brooklyn Heights as the owner of 135 Joralemon Street which after being damaged by fire was dangerously […]
Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Back from Holidays
The Brooklyn Women’s Exchange has re-opened following summer vacation. The Exchange, located at 55 Pierrepont Street, between Henry and Hicks, has just completed an extensive interior redesign: The Exchange is a not-for-profit market for handcrafted goods, many made by local artisans, including children’s clothing, toys, pottery, decorative pillows, soaps and lotions, sachets, and the like, […]
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