The Brooklyn Eagle’s Mary Frost reports that relief may be in sight for middle school dilemma facing P.S. 8 parents: Brooklyn Eagle: The city hopes to locate the P.S. 8 extension in a building housing George Westinghouse Information Technology High School and City Polytechnic High School at 105 Tech Place, fronting Tillary Street.
Archive | December, 2011
A Whole Lotta Meh: 30 Henry Street Renderings Released
Brownstoner reports today on the release of the renderings for the proposed new building at 30 Henry Street. News of the new structure broke recently with word that CB2’s landmarks committee has given its OK while the BHA had asked for a more contemporary design after seeing preliminary renderings. Also, the the new complex will […]
Playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space Opens on Broadway
Brooklyn Heights resident/ playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space opens tonight on Broadway at New York City Center Stage I [131 W. 55th Street Manhattan] (buy tickets). The play, recently in previews, stars David Hyde Pierce as Paul Barrow “an obsessive book editor on a major deadline.”
Memorial Service Monday Morning for Brooklyn Heights Woman Killed in Elevator Accident
The New York Times published an obituary of Suzanne Hart, the Brooklyn Heights resident killed in an elevator accident at Y&R in Manhattan last week. Included in the obit is information regarding a memorial service today (12/19):
Holiday Concert Today (12/18) Featuring Sir Duke’s Nutcracker
The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra will play a holiday concert Sunday (12/18) at 3pm at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity at Montague and Clinton Streets. The program will be conducted by Nicholas Armstrong and will feature the Duke Ellington arrangement of the Nutcracker Suite among other selections. In a press release Armstrong says. “Duke Ellington’s […]
Shake Shack Opening This Week Sparks Chatter of Downtown Brooklyn Restaurant Row
BHB reader “Anna” writes: Looks like the Shake Shack on Fulton Mall opening is imminent. Just walked by a little while ago — the “art project wall” is down and the menu is up. Peaked through a tear in the brown paper covering the glass windows and it looks all shiny and 95% read to […]
New Neighbor: Waterfront Wines Opens at One Brooklyn Bridge Park
Waterfront Wines, which signed a lease at One Brooklyn Bridge Park last April, has opened for business at the corner of Furman St and Joralemon St. The wine shop is specializing in smaller-production domestic and international wineries, and has a regular schedule of wine tastings and events. Deliveries will be made both to One BBP […]
Brooklyn Heights Quote of the Week
Even better than “sport[s] some of the best shopping….” David Edelstein, in his New York Magazine review of Roman Polanski’s Carnage (which he describes as “No Exit for anxious breeders”): The action unfolds in the Longstreets’ Brooklyn Heights apartment, from which, Alan notes, glancing out the window at a passing train, “You can see the […]
Brooklyn Heights Girls in City Ballet’s Nutcracker
Today’s Daily News has a story about a group of kids from Brooklyn who have been chosen to play children’s roles in the New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s Nutcracker at Lincoln Center this season. Among those getting special mention, and photos, are Brooklyn Heights residents Elizabeth Haarsgaard, 9, who plays a girl […]
A Present From the MTA
There are no planned diversions affecting subway service on any line serving any of the stations in or near Brooklyn Heights this weekend or the following (Christmas and Chanukah) weekend. Happy holidays!
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