Last night’s disruptive road repair work on Livingston Street may have kept a few of our readers up, but the Department of Transportation promises the worst is behind us. The DOT said today that all road work had been completed on Livingston Street. And although road work will continue on Schermerhorn Street until Friday, the […]
Archive | September, 2009
Flatbush Says Bishop’s Crooks Stink!
The NY Daily News reports today that Flatbush residents have a huge hate-on for the old timey Bishop’s Crooks streetlamps that have been installed in the area in the last few months. Montague Street is lined with the retro streetlamps and more are planned for Brooklyn Heights: NY Daily News: “It’s ridiculous,” said Kent Thomas, […]
Terror on Livingston Street – Will It Return Tonight?
This just in from the BHB Inbox: I live in Livingston at Clinton, and we are right now waiting for a dreadful night of road work, just like the one we had 10 days ago, when the pavement of Livingston was scraped out (by the loudest machines you can imagine) between 9pm and 4am. Yes, […]
Squadron Hosts Conference Calls on Community Issues
State Sen. Daniel Squadron will host a series of conference telephone calls beginning this Wednesday, September 23 at 5:30 P.M., and continuing for the succeeding three Wednesdays, September 30 and October 7 and 14, beginning at the same time, to discuss issues of interest to the community. These calls are a follow-up to his Community […]
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper 9/21/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines, you know … in case you missed ’em: Lance Bass N’Sync with Local Art Show UK’s Daily Mail on Brooklyn Heights: Posh… and Dull! Hate Crime Suspected at First Unitarian New Neighbor: Mini Max Toys and Cuts Angel Face Esthetics Opens on Montague Street Rise of the Machine: […]
BHS to Hold Carpet Sale Fundraiser
The Brooklyn Historical Society, in conjunction with Kea Carpets and Kilims, is holding a sale of antique carpets and tribal kilims this weekend to raise funds for the Society. There will be an opening reception this Thursday evening, September 24, featuring a lecture by Kea owner Susan Gomersall. From the Society’s press release: Join BHS […]
Lance Bass N’Sync with Local Art Show
Last night KiptonART, the organization headed by the Bruce Wayne-like Kipton Cronkite, had many of its artists featured at a BOFFO event at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. In attendance – pop star Lance Bass who stopped by to support artist Mark Johnson. KiptonART Online: Last night was the opening of Objective Affection where five KiptonART […]
UK’s Daily Mail on Brooklyn Heights: Posh… and Dull!
While Brooklyn Heights doesn’t “crave to be on the front of the Daily Mail“, it doesn’t hurt that our humble neighborhood received some ink from one of England’s biggest newspapers today. Well, not so much. While the article touts our borough’s celebrity residents, it’s not so complimentary to the home of Giamatti and Byrne and […]
Hate Crime Suspected at First Unitarian
Courier Life confirms a tip BHB received earlier this week about a possible hate crime at the First Unitarian Church on Monroe Place: Yournabe.com : A possible hate crime stained an otherwise calm weekend in Brooklyn Heights, as a swastika and other scrawl was discovered inside a Monroe Place church. “Very inappropriate statements, and a […]
Yassky Makes Pitchsky to YP4Csky
Gotta love the internets, it’s a series of tubes y’know. Well we found this heartwarming video of NYC Comptroller candidate/ Our man in the NYC Council/ Brooklyn Heights resident David Yassky pitching members of the Young Profressionals United for Change (somehow aka YP4C, shouldn’t it be YPUFC… on second thought maybe not). And please make […]
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