The Atlantic Avenue BID Steering Committee has scheduled a community meeting next Tuesday evening, February 23, to discuss the proposal to create a Business Improvement District for Atlantic Avenue. The BID would seek to improve conditions for businesses on the Avenue through, among other things, preservation of historic lights, marketing and promotion, streetscape improvements and […]
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Brooklyn’s Next Boomtown is Next Door
According to Rich Calder in The New York Post, to find Brooklyn’s newest hot residential area, you need only cross Cadman Plaza or Court Street between Tillary Street and Atlantic Avenue:
Danes invade Brooklyn
Your correspondent got this photo of the Danish frigate HMDS Thetis from the Brooklyn Bridge this morning. She was approaching Pier 7, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, where she is now docked. I hope the bars along Atlantic are well stocked with Carlsberg beer. Thetis is visiting New York along with nine other ships […]
Expanded Ferry Service is Topic of Town Hall Meeting July 22
Commuting by water can be a pleasant, and, for many, convenient way to start or end the workday. Consider also the prospect of getting to or from LaGuardia or JFK by ferry (both would require a shuttle bus or van to get from ferry landing to terminal), or to Citi Field or Yankee Stadium, or […]
A Visitor from Japan at Pier 7
Continuing the tradition of foreign warships docking at Pier 7 (see here, here, and here), at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, the Japanese Coast Guard’s large patrol vessel Kojima (LP-21) is berthed there now. Has the reputation of Atlantic Avenue’s bars spread throughout the navies of the world?
French Navy Says: Encore de Brooklyn
Setting out on my walk this morning, I saw from the Promenade a warship docked at Pier 7, near the foot of Atlantic Avenue. The Tricolor flying from the jackstaff at her stern and “D620″ on her bow identify her as the frigate Forbin of the Marine Nationale. Perhaps the crew of the Monge, which […]
French Navy Ship Visits Brooklyn.
The French missile tracking ship Monge, named for the 18th-19th century mathematician Gaspard Monge, is docked at Pier 7 near Columbia Street just south of Atlantic Avenue. Need to brush up on conversational French? Drop in to Montero’s or other Atlantic Avenue watering holes this weekend.
Car Fire on Atlantic Avenue
From the BHB Inbox comes this news item and photo from”Valerie”:
Fun Events at Moxie Spot
From the BHB Inbox, word of upcoming events at the Moxie Spot, 81 Atlantic Avenue:
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