In today’s example of Politics At Its Worst, noise in our neighborhood from the BQE project is being made a pawn in the school safety bet, with state Senate Republicans tying streamlining the BQE project to a provision that would require guns in schools in New York City. As reported by Brooklyn Paper in an article with […]
Archive | March, 2018
Friend of a Farmer Building On the Market for $3.85 million
Cushman and Wakefield have been retained to coordinate the sale of 76 Montague Street, the two-story building most recently home of Friend of a Farmer. The building will be delivered vacant and could be developed as retail or residential. According to the listing, “76 Montague Street is an incredible opportunity for investors, developers, and users […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This St. Patrick’s Day weekend — Friday, March 16 to Monday, March 19 — we in the Heights have the luck of the Irish. Sure, we have the usual, until some time this summer, cancellation of 2 or 3 train service in either direction (meaning no service at Clark Street or on the 2/3 platforms […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
The star of this weekend at Bargemusic is violinist and violist Vera Vaidman (photo, by Pri-Or, Tel Aviv). On Friday evening, March 16 at 8:00 she will present J.S. Bach’s Complete Works for Unaccompanied Bowed Instruments, Part I. Part II will be performed on Sunday afternoon. March 18, at 4:00. Ah, but Saturday, March 17 […]
Car Crashes Into Lamp Post on Montague St. – Pedestrians Spared, The Lamp Post Not So Much
Our tireless resident journalist Mary Frost of the Brooklyn Eagle reports that a 2005 GMC Envoy jumped the curb on Montague St. and crashed into a “bishop’s crook” lamp post outside TD Bank today at about 1:15 p.m. The lamp post likely spared the lives and limbs of jurors, court staff, students, and others who descend on Montague St. […]
Cuomo Counsel: Ask and You Shall Receive Design/Build for BQE
The Daily News reports that Alphonso David, counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a letter to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, has said that the Governor is eager to sponsor approval of a procedure called “design/build” for the needed reconstruction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway below Brooklyn Heights. Failure to provide such authorization would greatly extend […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This weekend, from 11:45 PM Friday, March 9 to 5:00 AM Monday, March 12, we have the usual, until some time this summer, cancellation of 2 or 3 train service in either direction (meaning no service at Clark Street or on the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall). As usual, during the absence of 2/3 service, […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
Bargemusic returns this weekend from a winter break with three exciting concerts. On Friday evening, March 9 at 8:00 pianist and composer Timo Andres (photo, by Michael Wilson) will play works by himself, as well as by composers Caroline Shaw, Christopher Cerrone, Eric Shanfield, and Leoš Janáček. On Saturday evening, March 10 at 6:00 the […]
NYC DOT Engineer Says Keeping Traffic Off Brooklyn Heights Streets High Priority
The Eagle’s Mary Frost has an excellent report on last week’s Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting. Here are my takeaways from the meeting: 1. The featured speaker, DOT Deputy Commissioner Robert Collyer (photo) said at least twice that a primary DOT concern is keeping traffic off Brooklyn Heights streets during the BQE renovation. 2. Mr. […]
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