Archive | April, 2015

Riders Alliance Wants Your Subway Horror Stories

The Riders Alliance wants you to share your subway horror stories. You may post them here or tweet them to @RidersNY using the hashtags #SubwayStruggles and #ThanksCuomo. You may also sound off in person tomorrow (Wednesday, April 8) at a strategy meeting to be held from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the YWCA Brooklyn, 30 […]

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Memorial Service for John Loscalzo, BHB’s “Homer Fink,” Wednesday Evening

There will be a memorial service for John Loscalzo, publisher of Brooklyn Heights Blog and known to readers as “Homer Fink,” who died suddenly this past Wednesday. The service will be this coming Wednesday evening, April 8, from 7:00 to 9:00, at Scotto’s Funeral Home, 106 1st Place, at Court Street, Brooklyn. There will be […]

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Hillary Clinton Campaign HQ Coming to Brooklyn Heights

What was reported as possible in February is now fact. According to Crain’s New York Business, Politico, Bloomberg and MSNBC are all reporting Friday that Ms. Clinton’s nascent campaign has signed a lease for two full floors at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city. She attended an […]

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Karl Remembers John, on Video

BHB’s own Karl Junkersfeld has put together a video chronicle of some of John’s moments on camera. See it after the jump.

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Goodbye, John

John Loscalzo—a.k.a Homer Fink, the King of Brooklyn Heights, the CEO of the Brooklyn Heights Blog—passed away yesterday. John started the blog in 2006 when he was new to the neighborhood—he brought a reporter’s integrity to the site along with a devilish wit and insatiable curiosity about both the beautiful and the quirky of Brooklyn […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

Smorgasburg returns to the Pier 5 uplands (foot of Joralemon Street) in Brooklyn Bridge Park this Sunday, April 5. It will be open every Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. until November. There’s more information here. On Friday evening, April 3 at 8:00, Bargemusic will present a “Here and Now” concert featuring the works […]

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Open Thread Wednesday 4/1/15

What’s on your mind? Comment away! Photo by Homer Fink

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