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Archive | January, 2012
Lost and Found: Have You Seen this Shoe?
BHB reader “Jane” writes to us that her baby threw a shoe out of her stroller somewhere around Montague Street and Henry Tuesday afternoon. Considering our record of reuniting the lost and their owners we figured we’d give it a try. If you found the companion to the shoe pictured below email us (webmaster at […]
Big “Mews”: 9 College Place 25% Sold
This is the best news that Love Lane Mews has offered in some time: The 38-unit condo complex at 9 College Place in Brooklyn Heights is now 25% sold, according to Multi-Channel News. In addition, the city’s Building Department has issued its Final Certificate of Occupancy.
NBC’s Upcoming “Smash” Returns To Lense In The Heights
NBC’s upcoming mid-season replacement “Smash,” must be counting on a ratings boon when it launches Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. The show’s crew returned to film in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO Monday. Seen: lead Katharine McPhee, and episode guests Uma Thurman and Jerry O’Connell. The latter pair was photographed with the “Kill Bill” star playing […]
Will Someone Buy the Heights Cinema Building to Preserve It?
Kate Briquelet’s Brooklyn Paper story quotes Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy as saying he has “received e-mails from people interested in buying the building.” The Brooklyn Paper: “There are a lot of people who want to keep it around,” said Lowy, who hopes to find a new home for the theater if the building […]
Here’s What Happened To Shuttered Heights Veterinary Hospital…
Following the BHB post January 2 that the Heights Veterinary Hospital at 59 Hicks Street closed without warning at year’s end, the Brooklyn Paper now shares the rest of the story. Doc Richard Turoff told writer Natalie O’Neill that the November death of one-time co-worker and friend Bernard Wasserman, who lived above the business, prompted […]
BHS Exhibit Praised on Times Opinion Page
Brooklyn native and New York Times writer Francis X. Clines, in a short essay at the bottom of today’s opinion page, observes: Just as Americans visit the Old World in search of family roots, tourists are showing up at the Brooklyn Historical Society, in hopes of tracking down their grandparents’ neighborhood ties and old houses […]
Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” Sinks At Sundance
Spike Lee’s new Brooklyn-based film “Red Hook Summer,” which had its first public screening at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Sunday, January 22, garnered pretty chilly reviews, at best. The coming-of-age flick about a boy from Atlanta who lands in Brooklyn to spend the summer with his unknown grandfather, was produced by Fort Greene, […]
Modifications to 72 Poplar on CB2 Executive Committee Agenda Tomorrow Evening
The plans of the development company that bought 72 Poplar Street, the former NYPD building (see photo), will be considered at the meeting of the Executive Committee of Community Board 2 tomorrow (Monday, January 23) evening, starting at 6:00, at the Library Learning Center, room 515, of Long Island University, at DeKalb and Hudson Avenues.
Heights Playwright Molly Smith Metzler Profiled In Sunday LA Times
Molly Smith Metzler, a playwright who lives in the Heights with fellow theater scribe Colin McKenna, is featured in a Sunday Los Angeles Times profile January 22. Her play “Elemeno Pea,” opens Feb. 3 at South Coast Repertory. The Tony-winning professional company in Costa Mesa, Calif., is regarded as one of America’s foremost producers of […]
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