Our pals at Gotham Sidewalks host their “Writers and Religion in Old Brooklyn Heights” tour tomorrow at 12:30 pm. For more info check their website. Writers & Religion in Old Brooklyn Heights Explore this community’s controversial past through inspiring 19th church architecture, and the equally moving words of resident writers like Walt Whitman, W.E.B. Dubois, […]
Archive | October, 2009
Henry Street Cobblestones – Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t
During the “neckdown” construction project on Henry Street, Karl “Add Urban Archeologist to my Resume” Junkersfeld caught a glimpse of old timey cobblestones that have been hidden under asphalt at Henry and Cranberry for decades.
Reminder: Howl-o-Ween Doggie Costume Parade this Sunday @1pm
Perfect weather predicted for the Howl-o-Ween charity costume parade, which will begin this Sunday, 1pm, at the Remsen Street entrance to the Promenade. Following the procession up the Promenade, there will be costume judging at the corner of Middagh and Columbia Heights at approximately 1:30pm. If you and your dog will participate in the contest make […]
Take Your Man To The Doctor Kicks Off
Today Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham kicked off the eighth year of the ‘Take Your Man To The Doctor” health care campaign. There are 400,ooo Brooklynites without health insurance, men being twice as likely as women to be uninsured. Markowitz asked Brooklynites to take the men in their life, whether […]
Walentas Looks to Clock Sucker Punch Recession
Two Trees has listed the super-fantastic Clocktower apartment at One Main Street in Dumbo for sale at $25 million dollars. Recession? Feh! Check out the apartment in all its glory at clocktowerny.com . The New York Times wrote about this 3,000 sq foot triplex earlier this year.
BQE Rehab Progress Report
Plans are underway for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, and much progress has been made since the public scoping meetings back in June. At last night’s Technical Advisory Committee meeting, project manager Peter King discussed some of the proposals for what could happen along the BQE.
Fake Bomber Acquitted
Robert Lopez, the former Cadman Plaza Towers maintainence man who was busted for carrying a fake dynamite alarm clock, has been acquitted: New York Times: Ending a bench trial, the judge, Acting Justice Vincent M. Del Giudice of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, scoffed at prosecutors’ argument that the worker, Robert Lopez, intentionally caused a […]
Park Progress: Thirty First Report
Earlier this year, a reader suggested that it would be helpful, from time to time, to compare the most recent image with the earliest one. Here is the photo of the north end of Pier 1 taken from the east tower of the Brooklyn Bridge on February 27, 2009: BHB photo by C. Scales Here’s […]
Talkin’ North Heights Improvement with Mr. Junkersfeld
Not everything in the North Heights is gloomy as this video from Karl “Robert Moses Ain’t Nuthin’ but a Causeway Now” Junkersfeld shows.
Watchtower Buys More Upstate Land, Not Buggin’ Out of Brooklyn Heights…Yet
The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, whose massive landgrab and destruction of many brownstones in Brooklyn Heights was a catalyst of the landmark district movement here over 40 years ago, has purchased more land in upstate Walkill, N.Y. A spokesperson for the religious group, who in the eyes of many […]
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