The Financial Times House & Home section ran a thoughtful story last week that compared and contrasted residential buying in New York City versus London. It began, “New York and London remain the grandes dames of the property world. The super-rich still want to park their money in these two ‘old world’ metropolises.” Further down, […]
Archive | March, 2012
Mockingbird
Another harbinger of a spring that has arrived early, this migrant from the South was spotted between Piers 1 and 2, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, resting on a branch of what appears to be sumac, with drupes. Click on photo to enlarge.
Reminder: Dine in Brooklyn Starts Monday, 3/19
Dine in Brooklyn, the week long event in which several local restaurants, as well as others around the Borough, are participating, starts today. Three course dinners are available at $25, and lunches at $20.12. Reserve now; tables are going fast. More details are here and here.
Pierrepont Playground Spring Egg Hunt Saturday, April 7
The Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee will hold its annual Spring Egg Hunt at Pierrepont Playground (Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights) on Saturday, April 7, starting at 10:00 a.m. Heather White, of the Playground Committee, says: The Spring Egg Hunt is an annual tradition for many families, organized and funded by the all volunteer BHPC, and […]
Bloomin’ Brooklyn Heights
Early spring-like weather has been propitious for flowering plants, both in gardens and window boxes, around the Heights. The flowers in the photo at left are in front of the residence of garden designer Catherine Fitzsimmons on Joralemon Street between Hicks and Willow Place. More photos and text after the jump.
Take A Look At Me (Then &) Now: 156 Henry Street, From Bohack To CVS
The sweet red brick building at 156 Henry Street at the intersection of Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights holds a modicum of mystery. Despite hours of research, I could find little info on when it was built or why it stands alone as a quaint two-story structure among so many multi-story apartment buildings on all […]
84th Precinct Community Council Meeting Tuesday Evening
The 84th Precinct Community Council will meet this coming Tuesday, March 20, starting at 7:00 p.m., at the Hopkins Center, 155 Dean Street (between Hoyt and Bond streets), in Boerum Hill. On the agenda are: a special guest presentation by the NYPD Gang Division; presentation of the Cop of the Month award; a Transit Police […]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 4/5: Signs Of Progress?
Since your BHB correspondent’s credentials are in crafting sentences and not engineering, I’m hard-pressed to explain exactly what’s going on in Brooklyn Bridge Park around the areas of Pier 4 and 5 (north of 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park condos, just south of Montague Street). But over the past week, trucks and crews have been pushing […]
Unjustified Arborcide, or Mercy Killing?
On Tuesday, I saw a large pile of logs piled next to the curb in front of 146 and 148 Hicks Street. I later received an e-mail from a reader who lives in a nearby building, saying that a healthy tree behind 148 Hicks was being taken down for no apparent reason. The reader described […]
Quote Of The Day: ‘BH Is Too Small, Too Old For High-End Specialty Shops’
An intriguing comment comes from a BHB reader, remarking on the March 15 Blog post, “Is Sephora Coming To Brooklyn Heights?” Amid frequent discussions that blanket the Brooklyn Heights Blog about chain retailers vs. local shops, AEB writes: I sometimes feel we’re all in the grip of a mass delusion that BH will become the […]
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