JMH Development and Madison Estates, who purchased the Brooklyn Heights Cinema location at 70 Henry this week, are planning to build …wait for it… condos on the site. A spokesperson for the group writes that they will ” be bringing a Morris Adjmi-designed boutique condominium development to the historic neighborhood.” The developer’s spokesperson tells BHB […]
Archive | November, 2014
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Friday evening, November 21, starting at 6:30, the Brooklyn Historical Society will present “The Impressionist in the Boathouse: How Artist Mary Rogers Williams Vanished From Art History Until 2014,” a lecture and discussion by Eve Kahn, antiques columnist for The New York Times, who “will explain how she stumbled upon the painter’s work and […]
The Clark Street Subway Station Now Has 3 Working Elevators
According to a BHB reader, the middle elevator at the Clark Street subway station is now operational. It’s been out for a while and for a time it felt like it might never come back. Have you taken a ride on the newly fixed elevator? What was it like…like magic? @bkheightsblog elevator at Clark street […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
The crush is on for North Heights residents this weekend. Like last weekend, from 11:30 p.m. Friday, November 21 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, November 24 there will be no 2 or 3 train service in either direction between Brooklyn and Manhattan, which means no service at Clark Street (now that, according to a reader, the […]
Brooklyn Heights Cinema Site Sells to Developer for $7.5 Million
The site of the now closed Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street, has sold to a developer for $7.5 million the NY Daily News reports. NYDN: Brooklyn-based Madison Estates and JMH Development are the new owners of the two-screen Brooklyn Heights Cinema, the cute one-story white brick theater at 70 Henry St. between Cranberry and […]
Goodbye, Brooklyn Heights: 33 Things I’ll Miss About the ‘Hood
BHB Guest post By Whitney Matheson This week I’m packing up the cozy Brooklyn Heights apartment I’ve called home for the last six years. Though I’m incredibly excited about the changes ahead – I got a job teaching journalism in Tennessee – I’m sad to leave the neighborhood I’ve grown to love so much. The […]
NY Times’ Sunday Routine in Brooklyn Heights
The New York Times’ “Sunday Routine,” which covers the mundane of the rich and famous, turns its eye toward Brooklyn Heights’ own designer and event planner David Stark, who namechecks a couple local hotspots: “I often will go play tennis at the Tennis Center in Prospect Park. I’ll play for an hour or so, and […]
Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour This Saturday November 22, 2014
We walk for the last time this year on Saturday November 22!
Buy tickets here.
Details after the jump.
Danish Christmas Fair This Weekend
The Danish Seamen’s Church, 102 Willow Street (just south of Clark; you can spot it by the ship’s bell in front), is holding its annual Christmas Fair this weekend, Saturday, November 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. On Saturday, the Fair will take place […]
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