Seven months after Irish pub & restaurant Eamonn’s In Brooklyn and the Hallmark store next door at 172-174 Montague Street were shut down, gutting has begun on the two-story commercial building for what is destined to be a highrise condo development. Workers were hauling away a mass of mess inside Hallmark on Monday; Eamonn’s meanwhile, […]
Archive | January, 2013
Time to Play: Name That Brooklyn Heights Biker
Washington State has Bigfoot; the Himalayas have the Yeti. But who cares because Brooklyn Heights has this famous person. Who is it? You be the judge after the jump.
The CW’s Carrie Diaries Takes Over Brooklyn Heights
The Carrie Diaries, the CW’s “pre-quel” to the seminal HBO series Sex in the City is filming all over Brooklyn Heights today – most notably the area around Clark and Hicks Street. If you see any exciting action tweet us your pics – @bkheightsblog. We’re especially jazzed about this show at BHB since Fink family […]
Grace & Spiritus Chorale Presents “Missa Pangea” at St. Ann’s Church Sunday
The Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn (photo) will present “Missa Pangea,” a concert featuring three distinct versions of the Mass from three continents, this coming Sunday, January 27, starting at 4:00 p.m., at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets. The program includes the “Coronation Mass” by Mozart, the Canadian […]
Brooklyn Heights: that’s in Ohio? Missouri? Maryland?…India?
It seems that America’s first suburb isn’t the only suburb to bear the name Brooklyn Heights. Just south of Cleveland is the village of Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, founded in 1903, to which Mayor Michael S. Procuk welcomes you in the photo. Then there’s Brooklyn Heights, Missouri, a village (pop. 100) in Jasper County, part of […]
BHB Adds Disqus Commenting System
Good news! We’ve added the Disqus commenting system to Brooklyn Heights Blog. For starters you may now use your Disqus, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! or OpenID accounts to comment here. Facebook and Twitter users can now share their comments from BHB on those platforms. Another bonus is that when you’ve commented using any of those […]
Squash Prodigy, Novelist Ivy Pochoda Writes About Heights Casino in NY Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine features a short piece by former Brooklyn Heights resident Ivy Pochoda about her time as a squash prodigy via the Heights Casino. It’s an interesting peek into the culture of this neighborhood institution:
Montague Street Hot Bagels & Deli Back In Biz Following Health Code Violations
After being shuttered by the Department of Health for the better part of a week, Montague Street’s Hot Bagels & Deli reopened for business Saturday. And not only that, but their neon sign, which has advertised “Hot Bag” for months, is at last again fully illuminated… Apparently, among other charges, being cited as “facility not […]
War Of The Worlds: Robot Lands On Promenade… Danger, Will Robinson!
Late Friday afternoon, amid a flurry of locals, tourists, kids on bikes and dog walkers, a horrifying sight descended upon the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Preceding a blinding flash of light, a menacing robot appeared near the Montague Street entrance. Despite suffering potential harm from the being’s ionized pulse gun, your BHB correspondent bravely approached the […]
Cops To Brooklyn Heights: Don’t Be Daft… Lock Your Front Door!
At a community council meeting Tuesday night, Capt. Maximo Tolentino, commanding officer of the 84th Precinct, pleaded with residents of Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill to keep their front doors locked. He noted that of 141 burglaries in the precinct in 2012, 48 occurred when residents were daft enough to leave front doors and windows […]
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