This report in today from Brownstoner, but is it premature?: Brownstoner: The Spanish restaurant La Mancha, at 135 Atlantic, has shuttered. There hasn’t been any action there for awhile, and recent talk on Brooklynian confirms the website is down and no one’s picking up the phone. We’re looking into the commenter assertions that La Mancha […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like…..
There may be three weeks until Thanksgiving, but signs of the Holiday Season are appearing around the Heights. Seasonal lights were being strung across Court St. today, and Sahadi’s has opened a Holiday Gift store (with musical accompaniment) in the old Ben & Jerry’s space on Atlantic Ave.
L Magazine Names Three Brooklyn Heights Blocks Among Borough’s 50 Best
L Magazine has surveyed Brooklyn’s multitude of blocks, and named its fifty best in various categories. Two blocks completely, and one partially, in the Heights made the cut. The winner in the “Best Block for Historical Significance” class is Montague Terrace (see photo above). It was here, way back in 1776 at the “Battle” of […]
Atlantic Avenue Subway Tunnel: Holding Out for a Hero
The Brooklyn Paper features an update on Bob Diamond’s quest to tear down the wall he believes hides a locomotive from the mid-19th century. More on the story after the jump.
BHA Presses DOT on Pier 6 Crossing Safety
Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, has contacted the City Department of Transportation about concerns over safety of pedestrians, especially with children, crossing from Atlantic Avenue to the new playground in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Pier 6. She reports: I talked to the NYC DOT today re the accident prone approach to […]
Red Hook to Heights Trolley May Be on Track
A while back, prompted by the news of old trolley tracks being dug up and scrapped in connection with infrastructure work at Fulton Ferry, we noted wistfully the neighborhood’s history of extensive light rail service, and wondered, even more wistfully, if at least some such service might be restored. Now, it seems, thanks in large […]
Key Food on Atlantic Accused of Re-Dating Spoiled Chicken
A customer of the Key Food store at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street, Marie Viljoen, has accused the store’s personnel of selling her a chicken on May 12 on which the label showing the original sell-by date of May 5 was covered by another showing May 16. YourNabe.com: Talk about fowl play! […]
Sneak Preview of Pier 6
This afternoon, your correspondent joined a group of local residents and a few journalists, including writers from New York Magazine and The Brooklyn Paper, for a tour of the soon to be opened section of Brooklyn Bridge Park inland from Pier 6, near Furman Street and the foot of Atlantic Avenue. We were guided by […]
So Long, Farewell: Abitare
Brownstoner reports that home decor and tchotke store Abitare [309 Henry Street] is going out of business. Did you ever buy anything there? What do you think this latest closing and that of Nova Zembla on Atlantic mean?
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