Marissa Alperin Studio is located at 25 State Street, between Willow Place and Columbia Place, across from Palmetto Playground. This is another in BITV’s series on Heights residents, businesses, and institutions.
Archive | February, 2010
BHB reader and Brooklyn Heights Association board member Martin L. Schneider (photo above) gives us this account of last evening’s opening reception for the “Brooklyn in Prints” exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society:
BHB pal @ejcory tweets this pic adding “Another interesting new retail shop on Atlantic Ave. That strange always vacant storefront next to Floyd.”
BHA/BHS Print Show Opening a Success
BHB photo by C. Scales
A record-setting snowstorm couldn’t stop eager Brooklyn fans from trudging their way to the Brooklyn Historical Society Friday night for the opening of the BHA’S centennial Brooklyn in Prints show. Some 170 storm-clad visitors arrived to pore through bins of images of Brooklyn and peer at a once-in-lifetime exhibition of prize prints showing the borough in virtually all of its manifestations, from revolutionary battleground to today’s lively urban settings. Continue Reading →
Get on the Purim Party Bus with Rabbi Simcha
Rabbi Simcha Weinstein tells us there’s still time to get on the Purim bus tomorrow with Congregation B’nai Avraham and dress up like your favorite New York icon! Full schedule and details here.
New Neighbor: Something at 139 Atlantic
Photo by ejcory
BHB pal @ejcory tweets this pic adding “Another interesting new retail shop on Atlantic Ave. That strange always vacant storefront next to Floyd.”
The store which appears to be called 139 @tlantic promises “fair trade coffee, live entertainment, interesting furniture, contemporary artifacts and a unique atmosphere.”
Peter Hedges Talks The Heights
On Saturday morning, BHB had the opportunity to chat with Boerum Hill resident/Brooklyn Heights based novelist, playwright and filmmaker Peter Hedges. His credits include the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, writer-director of Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life as well as an Academy Award nomination as co-writer of the screenplay for About a Boy. His third novel, The Heights, goes on sale this Thursday (3/4).
The Heights is the story of Tim and Kate Welch and what happens the year Kate goes back to work and Tim, a history teacher at the prestigious Montague Academy, takes a year sabbatical to watch their two young sons. Add a charismatic new neighbor and a newly famous old lover and The Heights proves a smart, witty and thoughtful meditation on family, fidelity and The Magic Kingdom. Continue Reading →
Sam O’Hare’s “The Sandpit”: a Revelation
The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.
Artist Sam O’Hare’s “The Sandpit”, with music composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong, uses “tilt-shift photography” to depict a day in the life of the City. Much of the action is seen from the Promenade and from the Brooklyn Bridge, including scenes of construction work on Brooklyn Bridge Park. It’s best played full screen in HD. Thanks to Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation’s Facebook page for the link.
Snowacaine in Brooklyn Heights
How ’bout that snow… imagine if that was rain!
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 2/25/10
This week’s police blotter features one iPhone robbery and one attempted iPhone robbery that appear to be related. Continue Reading →
John Manbeck Talks Heights History on Brooklyn Independent TV
John Manbeck, Heights resident, writer, and former Borough Historian, talks neighborhood history on Brooklyn Independent Television. This is another in a series of BITV pieces on Heights people, businesses, and institutions.
Ivanov Gets 18 Years for Bombs, Hate Crimes
Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes announced this morning that Ivaylo Ivanov has been officially sentenced to 18 years in prison in connection to possession of a cache of weapons and spray painting swastikas around Brooklyn Heights.
The official press release after the jump. Continue Reading →
New Neighbor: Ozu
Vittles Vamp photo
Nabe blogger Vittles Vamp has a first look at Ozu at 78 Clark Street, opening soon in the old Sea Asian location.
Vittles Vamp: This is the owners’ first foray into the city (or at least into Kings County), with two Sumou Sushi outposts already firmly planted in suburban Long Island. But, this new Japanese-fusion spot promises to take the swank up a notch from its “Giland” brethren in both kitchen and front of house.
BHA Hosts 100th Annual Meeting
More than 100 residents gathered last night for the 100th annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association. The evening broke with tradition by beginning with keynote speaker Michael Van Valkenburg, landscape architect of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Continue Reading →
Open Thread Wednesday 2/24/10
Flickr photo by lumierefl
What’s on your mind? Comment away!
Eagle: Watchtower Officially Bugging Out of Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Eagle reports today that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has decided to move its headquarters out of Brooklyn Heights. The current state of the real estate market will slow the group’s departure, the article says.
The group, while eventually complimented for saving some historic buildings like the Bossert and Standish Arms Hotels in Brooklyn Heights, was characterized by preservationists as part of the “gathering storm” of destruction in the 1950s.
Heights Hero Otis Pearsall told New York Magazine in 1987, “As the Witnesses buy up more and more there is a sense that a critical mass might be reached. When this happens there will be so many Witnesses that Brooklyn Heights will be a less attractive place for regular families to live.”
Now that the end of the Watchtower’s residence in Brooklyn Heights seems to be nearing, do you think this will open the door for more “regular families”? How do you think it will impact the quality of life here?
Checkin’ Out Choice Market
BHB contributor Karl Junkersfeld visits the new Choice Market in DUMBO and reads a few reviews for your viewing pleasure.
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Brooklyn Bugle
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Movie Preview
The Brooklyn Bugle presents Heather Quinlan's If These Knishes Could Talk (work in progress) screening at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema on February 9.
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214/216 Hicks Street Carves Out Space For Larger Tenant
- Lost Dog: Lili, a Shiba Inu
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Morton’s Steakhouse On Adams Street Is Cooked
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Downtown BK’s Historic Offerman Building At Last Gets New Life Via TJ Maxx
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Montague Street, Meet Your New Starbucks
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Le Pain Quotidien Taking Shape
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Damascus Bakery getting some competition
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Downtown Skyscraper District: He Said/He Said On Landmarks Approval
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UPDATE: Shiba Inu “Lili” Is Home!
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