Former BHA president and retired advertising kingpin Neil Calet lets loose on the city’s plan to allow more tourist helicopters to operate out of the downtown Manhattan heliport, directly across the East River from Brooklyn Heights. The NY Post speculates that could mean an additional 75 tourist flights above Brooklyn Heights per day. Chopper noise […]
Archive | October, 2009
Big Accident on BQE in Brooklyn Heights
This dispatch and photos came in from Matthew Parker this afternoon: Queens bound Traffic has been completely stopped for 45 minutes. Multiple-vehicle collisions, including a mini schoolbus with kids. One oil tanker involved that was punctured and leaking. Several passenger cars also involved. Three ambulances taking away injured drivers and passengers. Some injuries look serious. […]
Fish ‘n’ Chip Paper 10/26/09
Here are some of last week’s headlines, in case you missed ’em: Walentas Looks to Clock Sucker Punch Recession BQE Rehab Progress Report Fake Bomber Acquitted Park Progress: Thirty First Report Matt Damon Films on Fulton Landing 84th Precinct Police Blotter – 10/20/09 Mr. Junkersfeld Talks Brooklyn Bridge Park Finance From Cobble Hill Blog: Jonathan […]
Halloween in Brooklyn Heights
BHB contributor Karl “the Count of the North Heights” Junkersfeld surveys the ghoulish holiday decorations around Brooklyn Heights.
A Beautiful Day at the Howl-o-Ween Parade
Perfect Paws and the Friends of Hillside Dog Park held their annual Howl-o-Ween Doggie Parade today (10/25) on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. BHB publisher Homer “Shaky Cam” Fink was there and caught the parade on video. The Phantom of the Opera was today’s overall winner and Giuseppe the airplane (and his pilot Matthew) won for […]
County of Kings at Public Theater
County of Kings, written and performed by Lemon Andersen, directed by Elise Thoron at The Public Theater through November 8th, is a tour de force coming of age story set primarily in Brooklyn, Kings County. Produced by Spike Lee and the Culture Project (w/Steve Colman, Jayson Jackson, Tom Wirtshaffer), Andersen explodes onstage “car-jacking a sonnet,” […]
Effed at the Nightmare on Court Street
Effed in Park Slope got a taste of our good ol’ fashioned Nightmare on Court Street, the UA Court Street Stadium 12. While we already know that the place is a certified celluloid cesspool – filth, a fire and another fire and “questionable” bag searches – our Park Slope blogger friend hadn’t really experienced the […]
The Great Montague Street Pumpkin, Brooklyn Heights
Ricky’s invades the old Heights Books space on Montague Street for Halloween and this giant pumpkin marks the spot.
Packer Pumpkin Patch Fun
As we approached the Packer Pumpkin Patch on Joralemon Street today, a toddler was begging his Dad to let him stay. His cries of “…but I don’t want to go home” faded away in the distance while we snapped these shots of today’s funrdaiser for the Packer Collegiate Institute.
Martha Stewart Visits Brooklyn Flea and That’s a Good Thing
Our pal PezzKandy caught this pic of Martha Stewart filming her TV show at the Brooklyn Flea in DUMBO today. Reports earlier this week suggested she’d be hitting Saturday’s flea in Fort Greene but we guess yesterday’s weather moved the whole shebang to our neck of the woods today.
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