Because of a forecast of rain tomorrow morning, the Spring Egg Hunt at Pierrepont Playground has been postponed to Sunday at 10:00 a.m. No word yet on St. Charles Borromeo’s Easter Egg Hunt.
Archive | April, 2011
Reminder: Brooklyn Bridge Park Spring Fling Tomorrow
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s annual Spring Fling will be tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., rain or shine. A schedule of activities is in the linked post.
Weekend Subway Diversions
There will be no 4 or 5 train service at Borough Hall, or anywhere in Brooklyn, or in Manhattan below the Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street station, from midnight tonight (Friday) until 5:00 a.m. Monday. None, nada, zilch. If you want to go to the East Side of Manhattan, the MTA advises you to take the 2 […]
Know Your Brooklyn Heights CSAs
In case you’re one of the four people left in brownstone Brooklyn who has not been sold on the wonders of participating in a CSA, allow me to explain why these three letters are being clumped together, and why they are suddenly, strikingly hip. CSA stands for Community Shared Agriculture—meaning that a community (hi, Brooklyn […]
Take the Dodgers Back!
Homer wants to bring the Dodgers back to Brooklyn. Find out why and discuss it at The Brooklyn Bugle.
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Community Advisory Council to Park on Housing Alternatives: Back to the Drawing Board, Please
At yesterday evening’s meeting at LICH, after almost two hours of discussion, the Community Advisory Council (“CAC”) to Brooklyn Bridge Park passed, by a vote of 13-3 with four abstentions, a resolution urging the Committee on Alternatives to Housing (“CAH”) of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation to instruct Bay Area Economics (“BAE”), the consultants hired […]
Promenade Crash: The Morning After
It’s just another day on the promenade this morning, with German tourists snapping photos and joggers swerving to avoid kids on scooters. But at the Clark St. entrance, the fragments from last night’s crash still remain. As do questions: Who was at the wheel? Why was he or she driving so fast? And was this […]
Photographer Chris Hondros of Brooklyn Heights Killed in Libya
The headlines yesterday were about the death of Restrepo director Tim Hetheringtom in Libya and the injury of Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros. This morning word came that Hondros, 41, who lived in Brooklyn Heights has died.
Car Smashes Into Brooklyn Heights Promenade Fence
Reader “Y” on OTW tipped us off to this: earlier this evening, a car came down Clark Street at what must have been a pretty good clip, crossed Columbia Heights and kept going, smashing through the barricades that have blocked off the Clark Street entrance to the Promenade for lo! so many months, crossed the […]
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