Update: according to Notify NYC (or look out your window), “Due to heavy snowfall, expect delays & service changes on MTA train service system-wide in NYC.” This weekend — late Friday evening, January 29 to early Monday morning, January 31 — in addition to the ongoing closure of the Clark Street station and no late […]
Archive | January, 2022
Bye, Bye Rite Aid
Update: If you have prescriptions to pick up, starting Friday, February 11 you can pick them up at Duane Reade, at the corner of Court and Montague, unless you’ve made other arrangements. It’s already been noted on this week’s OTW, but today your correspondent’s wife paid a visit to Rite Aid at 101 Clinton Street, […]
For $25 You Can Stand on a Freezing Roof Sipping a Cocktail from a Glass Carved from Ice
According to TimeOut the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, which we know as the building that blighted the view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Promenade until One Manhattan Square, aka “The Cheese Grater” (someone once commented on BHB, “It gives Pecorino Romano a bad name”) utterly trashed it, has found a way to make money […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend – late evening Friday, January 21 to early morning, Monday, January 24 – there will be no Manhattan bound service at High Street, as A and C trains will be diverted to the F line between Jay Street-MetroTech and West 4th Street. Brooklyn bound 2, 3, and 4 trains will be skipping the […]
Court Street Regal Cinema Movie Theater CLOSED
It’s official: Court Street Regal Cinema at the corner of State Street is closed. According to the Brooklyn Paper, signs were posted on the doors indicating it is closed (with the nearest theater in Sheepshead Bay!), and there are no showtimes listed on the Court Street Regal Cinema. It’s still not clear if this location […]
Felice Opens at Former Giulia/Heights Cafe Site
Once again your correspondent’s wife has been busy surveying the ‘hood while he can’t. Today she found Felice, the restaurant that took over the site of the former Giulia/Heights Café (and for those with long memories, the Promenade Restaurant) at 84 Montague Street (corner of Hicks), open for business, and got this shot of its […]
Has a Sign Guiding Visitors Fallen Victim to a Video Shoot?
While your correspondent has been nursing a slowly but (I hope) surely mending fractured ankle, his ever alert wife, Martha Foley, has kept a keen eye on neighborhood developments. Over a period since November, Three Pierrepont Place and the sidewalk in front has on occasion been used as a setting for the TV drama City […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend – Late Friday evening, January 14 to early Monday morning, January 17 – in addition to the continuing closure of Clark Street station, there will be no 2 or 3 train service in either direction between Brooklyn and Manhattan; so, no service at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. Use 4, N, or […]
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