BHB contributor/reader Peter Kaufman caught a gang of alleged Citibike thieves red handed Friday night as they returned to retrieve their stolen booty from the service entrance of 62 Pierrepont Street. And he has the video to prove it. Kaufman recounts to us what happened (via Twitter): Last night some kids stole 4 Citibikes and […]
Archive | August, 2014
BHB Reader: Our Long Clark Street Subway Elevator Nightmare is Over
BHB reader @leland alerts us to an AMAZING development in Brooklyn Heights. Around midnight on Friday (8/8) MTA workers delivered what appears to be an elevator motor to the Clark Street station. As those who take the 2/3 from there know, elevator #2 have been out for quite some time.
Taking a Stand: Two Brooklyn Heights Residents Fight the Power
Two Brooklyn Heights residents have challenged powerful opponents. Michael White of Citizens Defending Libraries (CDL) and Lori Schomp of the People for Green Space Foundation have recently earned significant victories in their respective battles with the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Mr. White has wielded social and print media like a cudgel to […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Tomorrow (Friday, August 8) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will have its premiere showings of Magic in the Moonlight, starring Colin Firth (photo) as Stanley Crawford, “a grouchy and arrogant Englishman with a sky-high opinion of himself and an aversion to phony spiritualists’ claims”, who meets his match, in two senses of the word, in Sophie […]
Battle Royale at Borough Hall: BBPC Board Shoots Down Pier 6 Opponents
As witnessed yesterday by an overflow audience massed in Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation Board of Directors turned a deaf ear to impassioned pleas from John Raskin, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, New York State Senator Daniel Squadron and many others regarding future housing development in Brooklyn Bridge […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
From this Friday, August 8 at 11:45 p.m. to Monday, August 11 at 5:00 a.m. Brooklyn-bound A and C trains will be diverted to the F line between West 4th Street in Manhattan and Jay Street-MetroTech. This means no service from Manhattan to High Street this weekend, though there will be service from High Street […]
The New Yorker Likes Willowtown’s Iris Cafe Store #9
Amelia Lester writes about Iris Cafe #9 (20 Columbia Place) in the New Yorker. And she likes it!
The Brooklyn Eagle Finds the Smoking Gun in the #SaveLICH Battle
When the residents of whatever condo opens on the site of Long Island College Hospital move in, they’ll at least have a comprehensive epitaph to read about the storied institution that preceded them. But when ambulances are replaced with Fresh Direct trucks and they make their first delivery to the One Percenter living in the […]
Elizabeth Gaffney, at BHS, Reads, Talks About Bygone Brooklyn Heights
Novelist and Brooklyn Heights resident Elizabeth Gaffney was at the Brooklyn Historical Society yesterday evening to read from her second novel, When the World Was Young, on the date of its publication by Random House. She read two segments of the novel. The first told how a physician forced to give up her career because […]
Here are the Proposed Designs for the Towers at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6
The proposed designs are in for the towers at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6. We’ve posted the full presentation below. For the most part we will reserve comment and let our readers weigh in on each one.
See the proposals after the jump.
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