Yournabe.com runs two dueling Op-Ed pieces this week about landmarking. On the “con” side is Carroll Gardens resident Michael Cassidy, on the “pro” side is Brooklyn Heights Association Executive Director Judy Stanton: Yournabe.com: When the push began for a historic district, Robert Moses was on his urban renewal program and was sweeping away townhouses on the […]
Archive | June, 2010
Eagle: Renderings of 75 Clinton Residential Conversion Released
Rawlings Architects have released renderings of 75 Clinton Street, which is being converted from commercial to residential use: Brooklyn Eagle: “We wanted to break down the façade to a more residential scale,” he said. “We believe this is a much more handsome building.” The new façade will have a European terra cotta cladding in a […]
Area Man’s Japanese Slot Machines Covered by NY Times
The NY Times reports on folks who love collecting pachislos – Japanese slot machines – and one of them lives in Brooklyn Heights: NY Times: AT first glance, it looks as if Eddie Cramer is operating a casino out of his modest one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights, or at least one as Ziggy Stardust might […]
Tree Down on Hicks Street… Been There for Days
A BHB tipster writes in about a downed tree in the North Heights: [The tree is] on Hicks between Poplar and the BQE service road. We woke up to it on Friday a.m. and it has been there since. We’ve called 311 and it also has been reported to the Parks Dept. As you can […]
BQE Reconstruction Meeting: No Destruction of North Heights, Willowtown
Wednesday night’s BQE EIS Stakeholder’s Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting at St. Francis College put many North Heights and Willowtown residents at ease as two scenarios that would have destroyed their homes were ruled out. The declaration, made by NYSDOT Planning and Program Manager Peter King, came 35 minutes into the meeting which was well attended by […]
Live Blogging BQE EIS Meeting
7pm : NYSDOT’s Peter King intros. Asks public to hold comments to end – let Stakeholder Advisory Committee ask questions as things go along. Saying it’s still a process and we “don’t haves project yet.” Adds that the BQE is old but healthy and “unlike me” it can be rejuvenated. King is confident that “at […]
Phil Zinkewicz, Actor, Singer, Writer, 40 Year Heights Resident, Dies at 64
I was very saddened to see this item: The Brooklyn Eagle: Philip Zinkewicz, a 40-year resident of Brooklyn Heights known popularly for his acting and singing, but also a financial journalist, died at his Heights home on May 28. The cause was cancer, said his daughter Julianne Johnson. He would have been 65 on July […]
BQE Stakeholders Meeting Tonight at 6:30
There will be a BQE stakeholders meeting at 6:30 this evening at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen St. Up for discussion will be the recent plans that involve widening the BQE and possibly condemning neighborhood buildings. Who out there is going?
Brooklyn Heights Poet Daniela Gioseffi Outs Emily Dickinson as “Wild” Heterosexual
Poet, novelist, literary critic, and Montague Street resident Daniela Gioseffi has had an eventful career. The most recent anthology of her works, Blood Autumn, won the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. She started the Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk which, in this year’s incarnation, included actor and poetry enthusiast Bill Murray. She is […]
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