Archive | March, 2012

Downtown BK Skyline Reaches For New Heights

The long-stalled Downtown City Point Towers retail and residential complex in Downtown Brooklyn is aiming for the clouds. The Brooklyn Paper got an exclusive look this week at new mock-ups presented to Community Board 2, showing two potential horizon-altering skyscrapers at the site of the former Albee Square Mall, on the Flatbush Avenue Extension between […]

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Ed Randall Addresses PS8 Tuesday

The PS8 Men’s Club presents “Baseball Night at PS 8 with WFAN’s sports expert Ed Randall” on Tuesday March 27, from 7-9 p.m. in the PS8 Auditorium, 37 Hicks Street. Come on out and listen to Ed Randall offer an exclusive Hot Stove Report about the upcoming baseball season. Want to know about the Mets […]

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Spring Blossom Blast Inundates Montague Street

Spring continues to burst forward with a rare March gusto in Brooklyn Heights. Adam Goodkind sent in snaps of the trees blossoming along Montague Street Friday. See more below the jump.

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The Walking Dead…

Fifty zombies were on the march today in Columbus Park in search of fresh…lottery tickets?   The undead were shooting a commercial for the New York Lottery.  No word on whether any sank their teeth into the winning numbers for tonights $290 Million jackpot.

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Mr. J.’s Dine in Brooklyn Halftime Report

Today (Friday, March 23) marks the halfway point of the Dine in Brooklyn event (also see here), in which local restaurants are offering three course dinners for $25.00 and lunches for $20.12 (Geddit?). Karl, bringing his cam and a friend, sampled the offerings at River Cafe and Baluchi’s. Video after the jump.

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Subway Service Alerts

From 12:01 a.m. Saturday until 5:00 a.m. Monday, there will be no Manhattan bound service at High street, as A and C trains are being re-routed over the F tracks from Jay Street-Metro Tech to West 4th Street. Also, during the same time, there will be no Manhattan bound service on the R/N line at […]

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Seller Of Record-Breaking 212 Columbia Heights Relocates To One Brooklyn Bridge Park

Former literary agent Nina Lorez Collins—who recently sold her Brooklyn Heights home at 212 Columbia Heights for a (then) record-crushing $11 million—has lapped up a 3,482 square foot “townhouse-style” condo with private pocket terrace at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Two days after closing the sale of her 7,000sf Columbia Heights townhouse, the publishing honcho paid […]

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See Spring Plants at Pier 1 With Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Handy Guide

Brooklyn Bridge Park has created a guide to plants growing on Pier 1 (the pier accessed from the foot of Old Fulton Street). Each year the vernal equinox heralds the start of the spring season. At Brooklyn Bridge Park, springtime is celebrated by the returning blossoms found in planting beds, along the edges of lawns […]

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Accident Jams Eastbound BQE at Brooklyn Bridge

If you’re hearing a lot of horn-honking coming from the BQE, Notify NYC explains why: Due to a motor vehicle accident, all eastbound lanes of the Brooklyn Queens Expy are temporarily closed at the Brooklyn Bridge (BK). Expect extensive delays and consider alternate routes. Update: the easbound lanes have been re-opened but, says Notify NYC, […]

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NYC ‘Sanitary Inspection Grades’ For All Dining Establishments In 11201

While the debate continues over the intrinsic worth of New York City’s Bloomberg-mandated Health Code Ratings for all public dining establishments, there’s potential value in considering a restaurant bearing a big “D” in its front window. I happened upon the online results of the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene’s Sanitary Inspection Grades for […]

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