With less than two weeks remaining in an Indiegogo campaign to raise $30,000 for new digital projection equipment, the mood permeating the empty lobby of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema Monday night was decidedly bleak. A month into their six-week fundraising campaign, and with only $10,000 committed for equipment vital to the theater’s future, cinema manager […]
Archive | March, 2014
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 3/20/14
More iPhone thefts, plus an appearance from Planet Fitness. It’s this week’s blotter.
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
From 11:45 p.m. Friday, March 21 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, March 24, Manhattan bound F trains will be diverted to the A/C line from Jay Street-MetroTech to West 4th Street in Manhattan. This means no service to Manhattan from York Street in DUMBO, so walk up the hill to the High Street station, or catch […]
Lena Dunham Namechecks Mr. Video III’s Raf and Sal of Brooklyn Heights on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
When Lena Dunham was a teenager, she worked at Brooklyn Heights’ legendary video store Mr. Video III. She talked about that experience with Jimmy Fallon on last night’s Tonight Show.
Watch the video after the jump.
Open Thread Wednesday 3/19/14
What’s on your mind? Comment away! Here’s some food for though from The Brooklyn Bugle: An Omnibus of New Yorker’s Tweets About the Homeless in the Subway Omission Accomplished: Five People Left Off BKMag’s 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture List
Devastation: Lamppost Down On Hicks and Cranberry Streets in Brooklyn Heights
Watch out folks – a lamppost is down on Hicks and Cranberry Streets. Mrs. Fink snapped some photos of the downed utility pole today. Judging by the yellow tape, looks like the situation is under control.
Citizens Defending Libraries’ Open Letter to the BHA
After a BHB published a poll asking readers whose position they supported in the dust up regarding the Brooklyn Heights library branch, Citizens Defending Libraries’ Carolyn McIntyre added the screenshot of the results (the poll is still open btw) to her open letter to the Brooklyn Heights Association. As reported here, CDL’s members were very […]
Bratton’s Vision Zero Means 930 Percent More Moving Violations In Brooklyn Heights’ 84th Precinct
As part of old/new NYPD commission Bratton’s “Vision Zero” initiative, the 84th precinct reports a 930 percent increase in tickets for traffic violations over last year at this time according to data gathered by WNYC. But that number comes with an explanation. The station writes, “[O]fficers wrote just 10 tickets for speeding, failure to yield […]
Brooklyn Paper Gets First Look At Bossert Hotel Renovation In Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Paper’s intrepid reporter Matthew “the next Mike McLaughlin or Kuntzman” Perlman got a peek inside the Bossert Hotel renovation this week. The legendary building has been under the care of the Watchtower since the 1980s. In 2012, the group sold it to developers David Bistricer and Joseph Chetrit who are currently renovating the […]
Karl Junkersfeld Checks in on the Progress of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pierhouse Devolopment and Some Birds
Our Karl Junkersfeld took a stroll to Brooklyn Bridge Park, checked out the progress of construction of the Pierhouse and met a flock of birds on the way. Just another perfect day in Brooklyn Heights.
Watch the video after the jump.
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