Archive | October, 2009

Jack-o-Lantern-a-Palooza on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights

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Lost City photo

Lost City calls the pumpkin-scape at 24 Willow Street  ”Jack-o-Lantern Overload”!  We call it “awesome”.

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Kids’ Halloween Fun in Brooklyn Heights

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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!

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Watchtower Trick or Tracts in the North Heights

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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”.

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Tiger in the Kitchen Cooks Up Chicken Wing Stew

Photo: Tiger in the Kitchen

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.

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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: Continue Reading →

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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.” Continue Reading →

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Heights (Halloween) History: The Gate to Hell

In the 1977 movie The Sentinel, the top rear window of 10 Montague Terrace served as the really spooky Gate to Hell where a blind priest stood on guard for demons and the undead.

The movie does boast some scary moments (Sylvia Miles naked! Arrr!) and any movie featuring Christopher Walken is a-ok in our book.

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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.  Continue Reading →

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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.

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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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Plymouth Church Yankee Fair Announced

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The Plymouth Church Yankee Fair is scheduled for Saturday November 14 from 10am – 4pm.   The full press release and details on all the fun after the jump. Continue Reading →

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Kiddie Korner Covered in The Jewish Week

Kiddie Korner, the new Chabad daycare center on Montague Street, is profiled in The Jewish Week:

The Jewish Week: “We wanted to convey a calm feeling,” says Kiddie Korner Director Shternie Raskin. “We told the architects we were going for a Zen feeling, something that was like a yoga studio.”
While yoga studios have become a dime a dozen in New York, day care centers like Kiddie Korner, where parents can bring children as young as 2 months old, are shockingly rare.

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Village Voice Covers Wild Game Festival at Henry’s End

Every year around this time, Brooklyn Heights mainstay Henry’s End cooks up its  Wild Game Festival.  The Village Voice interviews chef/owner Mark Lahm about what’s on the menu this year:

Village Voice: But you’d be hard-pressed to find much game in New York restaurants, aside from a smattering of wild boar Bolognese sauces, a few plates of bunny here and there, and a special game menu that Picholine has done in the past. But in Brooklyn, Henry’s End chef/owner Mark Lahm is quietly cooking an extensive wintertime game menu, which he’s been running October through March since 1986. Reindeer, bear, turtle, kangaroo, and antelope–if you can eat it, Lahm has served it. Fork in the Road chatted with Lahm about the ins and outs of cooking and serving game.

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Open Thread Wednesday 10/28/09

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BHB Photo Club pic by fkuffel

What’s on your mind? Comment away!

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The Golden Bough[s].

BHB photo by C. Scales

BHB photo by C. Scales

Montague and Clinton Streets, Monday afternoon, October 26.

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