The New York Times, obviously following the trend started by our Heather Quinlan, writes about the NY accent (“dialect” to you sticklers, OK?) today. More to the point, they write about wanting to lose it as opposed to HQ’s homage to tawking like Fran Drescher:
Archive | November, 2010
Brooklyn Friends School Winter Festival Saturday, December 4
We’ve just received this advisory: Brooklyn Friends School will be having their hugely popular Winter Festival on Saturday, December 4. Get a jump on holiday shopping and have a blast with your children at this Downtown Brooklyn school’s 31st annual holiday extravaganza. Festivities include an “all by hand” craft fair with 45 local artisans; holiday […]
Chowhound Wants to Know: What’s Your Favorite Delivery Meal?
There’s a post on Chowhound that asks: “What’s the best delivery dish in Brooklyn Heights?” So far, it’s received only two responses. I’ve got to credit commenter “BklynBlaise” for mentioning the tripe soup from Teresa’s. Blaise shares my liking for what my Massachusetts-born wife disdainfully calls “speah pahts”, and has also aroused my curiosity to […]
High Street Escalator Protest Gets MTA Promise of Quick Fix
Myfoxny.com has video of the demonstration this evening at the Adams Street entrance to the High Street MTA station, as well as reports on escalator problems elsewhere in the system. According to the text, the MTA today promised to repair the High Street escalator “this week”.
“What Is It Then Between Us?”
The other day, I came across on Gothamist, some illustrations of Brooklyn at the time Walt Whitman walked his city of “ample hills”. I thought it would be neat to go and take some pictures of the same places today. Above is Henry Street, between Cranberry and Orange in 1852 — , from all the […]
Parsons Students Put Interpretive Display on Promenade
Returning from his cross-Brooklyn Bridge walk this morning, your correspondent noticed something new on the fence bordering the Promenade between Orange and Pineapple streets. It was a series of panels, on one side of each showing a portion of the lower Manhattan skyline as seen from the Promenade (see photo above) with helpful labels showing […]
Heights and Hills: “We Need Pies; Servers”
This in from Heights & Hills Community Council, and the Brooklyn Heights Association: Heights and Hills’ annual Thanksgiving Dinner will be held at Grace Church on Thanksgiving Day, serving older adults in our community. Heights and Hills also delivers meals to about 75 neighborhood seniors who are too frail to get out and join the […]
Rally at High Street Station Tomorrow to Demand Escalator Repair
State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblymember Joan Millman, and Councilmember Steve Levin urge Brooklyn residents to rally at the MTA’s A and C line High Street Station, entrance on Adams Street below Sands Street (near 175 Adams Street) tomorrow (Thursday, November 18) at 4:45 p.m. to demand that the MTA make good on its promise to […]
Squadron Assails Borough Car Rental Surcharges by Dollar, Thrifty
Brooklynites, beware! If you rent a car from Dollar or Thrifty and show a driver’s license with a Brooklyn address, even if you pick the car up outside of Brooklyn, you will be charged an extra $55.00 just because of where you live. How sour it is! Surcharges of differing amounts also apply to Bronx […]
St. Ann’s Gets “Conditional” Nod for Tobacco Warehouse
There was no surprise at this afternoon’s meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s board of directors. After a presentation by the Corporation’s president, Regina Myer, that duplicated the one she gave at the community meeting on Monday, and after her briefly summarizing the comments made at that meeting, which she described as being split […]
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