The BQE reconstruction controversy was all over local TV and print news today. BHA Executive Director Judy Stanton spoke with WABC-TV in the video above. WCBS-TV also ran the story interviewing many Brooklyn Heights residents including Democratic NYS Assembly candidate Doug Biviano. That report may be seen here.
Archive | June, 2010
BHB’s Heather Quinlan on Channel 12 at 5:30 Today
Above is our Karl Junkersfeld’s video of Heather interviewing passersby on Henry street today. Tune in! It’s on Time Warner channel 156.
Squadron: Condemnation “must not be on the table” in BQE Reconstruction
This in from State Senator Daniel Squadron (photo above at Pier 6 opening), whose district includes Brooklyn Heights: The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is in desperate need of a major rehabilitation. It will be a long process, and it is currently in the early stages. I commend the State Department of Transportation for the openness it has […]
Brooklyn Heights History: the Low Family and the China Trade
Will Van Dorp, of Tugster: a Waterblog, has an interesting post about the Heights, focusing on Abiel Abbot Low, who came here from Salem, Massachusetts, owned clipper ships in the China trade, and lived in a large townhouse on Pierrepont Place, next to the Montague Street entrance to the Promenade. The adjoining townhouse to the […]
Morrone Lecture on Walking Tours, Historic Preservation Rescheduled for Tomorrow Evening
The lecture on walking tours and their effect on the historic preservation movement by noted architectural historian Francis Morrone, originally scheduled for April at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), has been rescheduled for tomorrow evening, Wednesday, June 16, beginning at 7:00. From the BHS: Join us at BHS and hear […]
NY Post on NYSDOT Plan to Smash Heights
The NY Post picks up on BQE EIS controversy today. While the BHA’s Judy Stanton says the group believes that plan will not go forward, one long time neighborhood resident is concerned: NY Post: Steve Kann, who has lived on Willow Street for more than five decades, said it would be a big mistake for […]
BQE Proposal: Hey BHA, Time to Do Some Shouting
“[We have] been too dignified and respectable. Let us now get up and do some shouting.” – Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis at the first BHA meeting 100 years ago In response to BHA President Jane McGroarty’s comments regarding the NYSDOT’s “fully compliant” BQE rehab project scenario – which in following Federal guidelines would need to take […]
Reminder: New York Accents at Noon
So yours truly will be standing with this sign on Clark and Henry today from 12-1 to shoot footage for my film about the New York accent, “If These Knishes Could Talk.” News 12 just emailed and told me they’ll be filming the “event” (as it were) around noon as well, so please swing by […]
Will CVS Self-Serve Kiosks Make Life Worth Living Again?
Just went to buy some Sharpies at CVS and saw a crowd gathered near the registers. Was it an early-morning irate customer? Possible elderly shoplifter? No! The answer was even better—self-serve kiosks. Sure, it’ll take months for people to figure it out, and some never will. But if given a choice, kiosk wins with me […]
BQE Rehab Update: Some Perspective from the BHA
There’s been much discussion over the past several days about plans to widen the BQE. BHA President Jane McGroarty had this to say on the subject: As part of NYS Department of Transportation’s study to rehabilitate the triple Cantilever portion of I-278, the DOT is taking a preliminary look at a number of options that […]
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