The Real Deal reports that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are putting another of their Brooklyn Heights properties up for sale: the nine story, presently 161 unit residential building at 107 Columbia Heights, which sits at the southeast corner of Columbia Heights and Cranberry Street. The piece quotes Tucker Reed, of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, as estimating […]
Archive | April, 2016
Rats? Bring On Feral Cats, Says BHB Reader Roberto Gautier
The Brooklyn Paper reports that BHB reader, and sometime commenter, Roberto Gautier, fearing an influx of rats into Brooklyn Heights as a result of pending construction of a high rise building on the library site and major repair work on the BQE (Mr. Gautier serves on the community advisory committee for the BQE project), has […]
Pier 1 “Movies With a View” Schedule Announced
Brooklyn Bridge Park provides us with a list of the free “Movies With a View” to be screened on the Harbor View Lawn, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park on Thursday evenings this summer. The series kicks off on July 7 with the Gene Kelly/Donald O’Connor/Debbie Reynolds classic Singin’ in the Rain (let’s hope it doesn’t […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
Tomorrow (Friday, April 15) evening at 8:00 Bargemusic will present “A Mandolin Journey From Ancient to Modern Times”, featuring mandolinist Carlo Aonzo (photo), and including works by Bach, Kioulaphides, De Call, Siegel, Bickford, Calace, Murena, Do Bandolim, and Grisman. On Saturday evening, April 16, at 8:00 the Dorian Wind Quintet will perform works by Ligeti, […]
Two Developers Said to Agree to Buy Witness Headquarters
The Real Deal reports that an investment group led by two prominent Manhattan property owners and developers, Jared Kushner and Aby Rosen, are said to have agreed to purchase the Watchtower headquarters complex at 25-30 Columbia Heights, along with a site on Jay Street in DUMBO that has substantial development rights, for $700 million. No […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
Same old, same old. Just like last weekend, from 11:45 p.m. Friday, April 15 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, April 18 there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 trains will terminate and originate at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall in Manhattan, and 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn […]
NYFEST 2016 Soccer Tournament at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday
All day this Saturday, April 16, NYFEST 2016, a charity soccer tournament, will take place on Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5. The action starts at 8:00 a.m. when the first round of the Industry tournaments kicks off; these continue until 6:00 p.m. A Youth Soccer Showcase goes from 9:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m. Starting at […]
Brooklyn Historical Society Salutes Manischewitz Wine Tuesday Evening
If, like your correspondent, you’re–as they say–getting long in the tooth, you may remember a jingle, “Oh man oh Manischewitz, what a wine!” The ads are long gone, but the wine is still made. It’s no longer made in Brooklyn, as it was back in the day, but in Canandaigua, a pretty town at the […]
Paella Bake-Off in Red Hook Sunday Evening, April 17
This coming Sunday, April 17, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. there will be a Paella Bake-Off in Red Hook, and you are invited to be one of the judges. The contestants are Kevin’s Restaurant, 277 Van Brunt Street, and the galley of the preserved coastal tanker Mary A. Whalen, docked at the south side of […]
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