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Lost City calls the pumpkin-scape at 24 Willow Street ”Jack-o-Lantern Overload”! We call it “awesome”.
Archive | October, 2009
Kids’ Halloween Fun in Brooklyn Heights
Pierrepont Playground was packed today following the Annual Brooklyn Heights Halloween Parade. If you were there, please add your photos to the BHB Photo Club on Flickr and we’ll post a slideshow here soon!
Watchtower Trick or Tracts in the North Heights
Sure the folks over at the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society aka Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t “celebrate” Halloween but they took to the streets of the North Heights this morning to “Trick or Tract”.
We’ve discussed the unneighborliness of Watchtower knocking in the Heights before and this morning’s doorbell ringing was no exception. While it was amusing to hear a woman on the intercom who sounded like Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein it was still an unnecessary violation of my personal space. So, Watchtower folks we’re sorry you’re bummed the world is ending soon but next time just Tweet us your “good news”.
Tiger in the Kitchen Cooks Up Chicken Wing Stew
Photo: Tiger in the Kitchen
Brooklyn Heights resident and food blogger Cheryl “Tiger in the Kitchen” Tan recently posted a recipe for Chicken Wing Stew. We haven’t cooked it up yet (ahem… paging Mrs. Fink) but if Ms. Tan’s photos of the dish are any indication it looks outrageously good. Find the recipe here.
Mr. Junkersfeld’s Brooklyn Heights Video Time Machine by Way of The Nabeguy Collection
Mr. Junkersfeld files this companion dispatch to go along with his latest film: (more…)
Police: No crime wave in Brooklyn Heights
In light of last night’s incident, police officials wanted to reassure Brooklyn Heights residents that there were no reported robberies last night and that there is no crime wave in the Heights.
“There are no crime patterns that are affecting Brooklyn Heights,” an official tells Brooklyn Heights Blog. ”Our worst crime pattern is probably a graffiti pattern.” (more…)
Heights (Halloween) History: The Gate to Hell
In the 1977 movie The Sentinel
The movie does boast some scary moments (Sylvia Miles naked! Arrr!) and any movie featuring Christopher Walken is a-ok in our book.
Please be advised
Neighbors: Please be advised at approximately 9:00 p.m. tonight as I was walking home on Hicks between Montague and Joralemon I was accosted by a gang of four boys, approximately 14-15 years of age. (more…)
Kids’ Halloween Parade Saturday
Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee will hold their annual Kids’ Halloween Parade this Saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. at Pierrepont Playground, Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights. More details are available at the BH Playgrounds website.
For a full list of Halloween fun, check out Cobble Hill Blog.
BHA to Meet with EDC Tomorrow About Tourist Choppers
The Brooklyn Heights Association will meet with the Economic Development Corporation tomorrow to discuss banning tourist helicopter flights over Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Brooklyn Bridge Park. BHA Executive Direct Judy Stanton tells the Brooklyn Paper that chopper noise is so bad that it’s hard to hold a “face to face conversation.”
Brooklyn Paper: But the BHA has an ally in Councilman David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights), who urged EDC not to relocate the non-essential tourist rides to the East Side heliport in the wake of August’s fatal helicopter collision in the Hudson. The anti-copter campaign is making a lot of noise, but EDC spokesman David Lombino said that the BHA is misinformed, saying that the number of flights out of the West 30th Street Heliport this year was half of what it was last year. Also, calls regarding helicopter noise to 311 have decreased, according to Nicholas Sbordone, spokesman for the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Then again, Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman offered one explanation for the drop-off: The operators don’t take calls about helicopter noise because such noise can’t be logged without an actual street address, he said.
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