Community Board 2, which earlier alerted us to the milling of Hicks Street (which Homer tells me has begun today) now advises us of more milling projects, including Garden Place, which is scheduled to be milled beginning this coming Tuesday, June 25. Also slated to be milled are several small streets at or near the […]
Archive | June, 2013
Brooklyn Bridge Park Pool Opens June 27
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Pop-Up Pool at Pier 2 will open for business on June 27 at 10am. It will be open 7 days a week from 10 AM to 6 PM until Labor Day.
A Lizzmonade stand, featuring ARTISINAL lemonade (hey it’s Brooklyn), will be open pool side. Read the full presser here:
Brooklyn Law School Selling Heights Properties
The Brooklyn Paper reports that Brooklyn Law School has put on the market six residential buildings in Brooklyn Heights it has used as student housing. These are: 89 Hicks Street (photo), which BLS bought from Watchtower in 2006; 18 Sidney Place; 144 Willow Street; 100 Pierrepont Street; 27 Monroe Place; and 88 Monroe Place. The […]
City Issues RFP for Brooklyn Heights Library Site
Brownstoner reports that the City has issued a Request for Proposals to develop the site now occupied by the Brooklyn Heights Branch of Brooklyn Public Library at 280 Cadman Plaza West. The RFP provides that the developer’s plan “must incorporate a brand new, 20,000 square foot library branch (“New Library”) for the Brooklyn Heights community.” […]
Reader: What’s Up With These Crazy Cabbies?
Since TLC commish David Yassky lives in Brooklyn Heights, we figured that this taxi etiquette question might reach the man himself. A female reader asks – Homer, the other night a cabbie dropping me off at home in Brooklyn Heights asked me if he could come into my house and use my bathroom. I, of […]
Here It Is – NYC’s RFP For The Brooklyn Heights Library Site
Hey man, wanna build a library? The city released it’s RFP for those who’d like to develop the site of the current Brooklyn Heights library.
Take a look at the full RFP and discuss here.
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Saturday (June 22) from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a book launch and talk by Philip F. Napoli, author of Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City’s Vietnam Veterans. In BHS’s words: Join us for a discussion from the author and a remarkable group […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This coming weekend the only planned change that will affect service at any local stations is that, just like last weekend, there will be no service in either direction on the R and (late night) N line at Court Street or Jay Street-Metrotech, as these trains are being diverted over the Manhattan Bridge between DeKalb […]
SUNY To LICH – ‘Drop Dead’
Update: The Times reports that Judge Johnny Lee Baynes, who earlier issued a temporary restraining order against SUNY’s attempt to close LICH, today, in response to complaints that SUNY was denying LICH essential medical staff, ordered that SUNY “should maintain staffing on par with what it was before SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which operates it, […]
Music Recital Tomorrow Evening at Zion Church
Tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. sopranos Sally Sanford and Brooke Bryant, accompanied on organ by Robert Barney, will present “Monteverdi Playbook,” a recital of music by the early 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (image) and by others who were inspired by him, including Schutz, Schein, Couperin, and Handel. The recital will be at Zion German […]
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