Mr. J. returns with video from some weekend events and locales: the Danish Christmas Fair; the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, where he watched potter Drew Montgomery at work; the perhaps suddenly chic Cranberry’s; the now-padlocked Tobacco Warehouse; Brooklyn Bridge Park and Jane’s Carousel. He finishes with an extended, annotated clip from Sweet November, a 1968 movie […]
Archive | November, 2011
New Neighbor: ModuleR
ModuleR ( @module_r ), a “customizable design” company, has opened at new store at 141 Atlantic Avenue. Heather Quinlan profiled owner Donald Rattner for BHB last year. Anyone check it out this weekend?
Rosa Rugosa Still in Bloom on Pier 1
A year ago last June the intrepid Karl Junkersfeld toook a stroll around Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park and made the acquaintance of Rosa rugosa. Yesterday morning your correspondent took a similar stroll and found some of the flowers still in bloom, along with the rose hips that look like small tomatoes.
Olivia Wilde and Jason Bateman Movie Shooting in Brooklyn Heights Next Week
If you’re parked in a sweet Tuesday spot on Willow, Cranberry or Henry Street (between Cranberry and Pineapple) you’re outta luck! The Longest Week a film starring Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde will be shooting here Monday and Tuesday which means you have move your vehicle by 5pm Sunday (11/20) or risk being towed. According […]
#OccupyWallStreet Comes to Brooklyn Heights [Video]
Karl Junkersfeld ventured out to Cadman Plaza Park this evening as hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters flooded in after their march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Watch his video after the jump.
Pottery Demonstration at Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Sunday
Accomplished Potter and Brooklyn Heights native Drew Montgomery (photo) will demonstrate his skill at the wheel this Sunday afternoon, November 20, from 2:00 to 4:00, at the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 55 Pierrepont Street (between Henry and Hicks). According to Exchange member Roberta Smith: Drew has taught pottery at the Greenwich House in Manhattan as well […]
Weekend Subway Diversions
This is the penultimate weekend for the no-2-or-3-trains-to-or-from-Brooklyn debacle. What this means: no service at Clark Street or on the 2/3 platform at Borough Hall. Options: for lower Manhattan, the 4, 5 (which, unlike most weekends, will be running to and from Brooklyn), A (but not the C, which won’t be running to or from […]
BHB Hosts Friends & Neighbors At Vineapple Mixer
Last night a bunch of Brooklynites gathered at Vineapple [71 Pineapple Street] to exchange good tidings for a Brooklyn Heights Blog mixer. Your host: Ed In Chief Homer Fink (in blue). Hot topic for the night: the breaking news about Watchtower buying rights to re-route the BQE through Clark Street, veering onto Hicks and under […]
Borough Hall station part of Wall Street protests this afternoon
As part of it’s “Day of Action”, the Occupy Wall Street movement has announced plans for an Occupy the Subways program, starting this afternoon at 3 PM. Their website states: We will start by Occupying Our Blocks! Then throughout the five boroughs, we will gather at 16 central subway hubs and take our own stories […]
Helicopters over the Heights this morning
Because of the Occupy Wall Street activity in Lower Manhattan, Police and Media helicopters are hovering or flying lower over Brooklyn Heights and the East River. Protests are expected to continue throughout the day.
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