Oh My Pasta! has gone limp. After opening about nine months ago, on September 3, 2011, the Italian eatery at 142 Montague Street has shuttered. The locally run restaurant was owned & operated by Marco Lasala, a native Italian from Barletta in southern Italy, who had moved to Brooklyn Heights, serving a menu of family […]
Archive | May, 2012
Brooklyn Bridge Park Signage Added Along Promenade
Friday morning, signage was installed along portions of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade railing, with descriptors of the Piers within view. Pier 5, for instance, at the south end, offers the architect, features of the area and (just for a giggle?), a completion date of Late Fall 2012.
Mr. J Shows He’s the “J” in Cajun.
A little rain couldn’t keep Karl and his cam away from the Zydeco Dance Party tonight on Pier 1. Watch his video after the jump to see the way to dance the two-step and hear some swampland sounds by Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew. Will Brooklyn Bridge Park Prexy Regina Myer get on the dance […]
Comedy of Errors Postponed Until Saturday by Flooding
We’ve gotten word from the good folks at Theater 2020 that they’ve had to cancel tonight’s and Friday’s performances of A Comedy of Errors because of flooding in the undercroft space at Assumption Church where they’re performing. They expect to be back on stage this Saturday evening, May 26, at 8:00. After that, they have […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
In town for the long Memorial Day weekend? There’s lots to do. After a week off, Theater 2020’s production of Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors resumes this Saturday evening, May 26, at 8:00; there will also be a Sunday matinee at 3:00. Your correspondent heartily recommends this show. More details are here. On Saturday, Sunday, […]
Actor/Comic Jerry Brooks Buys Digs At One Brooklyn Bridge Park
Actor and stand-up comedian Jerry Brooks—better known as J.B. Smoove—has closed on an 843-square-foot, 1-bedroom condo at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. The loft-style unit, for which he paid $524,398, includes a home office. The deal was brokered by MNS. Brooks is perhaps best known for playing Leon on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
Subway Service Alerts: Holiday Weekend and the Following Week
It’ll be mostly smooth sailing on the subways this weekend, with the one big exception we mentioned yesterday: there will be one more weekend of no service in either direction on the 4/5 line at Borough Hall. We’re thankful to note that this only goes from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 5:00 a.m. Monday, so there […]
BHB’s Heather Quinlan’s Knish Flick Covered on CBS This Morning
BHB contributor/filmmaker/Brooklyn Heights resident Heather Quinlan was a guest on CBS This Morning earlier this week discussing her upcoming documentary If These Knishes Could Talk. The package, as we say in the biz, ponders “are Americans losing their accents?” Watch the report after the jump.
Fox 5 NY: Parks Department “Looking into” Plan to Name Park After Adam Yauch
Fox 5 NY’s Heather Brown filed a report this evening confirming that the NYC Parks Department is “looking into” naming a park after Beastie Boy/Brooklyn Heights native Adam “MCA” Yauch who died of cancer earlier this month. Yesterday, we reported that the BHB community’s effort and Facebook page to rename Squibb Park after the musician […]
Reminder: Zydeco Dance Party Tomorrow
Tomorrow evening (Thursday, May 24) starting at 7:00 les bons temps will rouler on Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park as Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience (see video after the jump) and Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew provide the Louisiana sounds for the third and final in the BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn/Brooklyn Bridge Park series […]
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