More than 100 residents gathered last night for the 100th annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association. The evening broke with tradition by beginning with keynote speaker Michael Van Valkenburg, landscape architect of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Peter Hedges Emcees “Hollywood in the Heights” as BHA Launches Centennial Celebration
Multi-talented Peter Hedges–novelist, screenwriter, actor, director, and Oscar nominee–lives in Boerum Hill but works from his studio on Montague Street. Yesterday evening he was master of ceremonies for the opening event of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s year long centennial festivities, “Hollywood in the Heights”, a video presentation and panel discussion about movie-making in our neighborhood. […]
BHA Announces Year Long 100th Anniversary Festivities, Launches New Website
The Brooklyn Heights Association will be celebrating its centennial with a series of events in 2010, it was announced today. Details of the celebration have been revealed on the group’s new website which launched today: TheBHA.org: ‘Celebrating a Century’ — A Yearlong Series of Events: And this year there will be more than ever happening […]
BHA to Members: Mobilize Against Dock Street DUMBO
The Brooklyn Heights Association sent out an email blast to its membership on Friday urging members to speak out against Two Trees’ Dock Street DUMBO project. In the email, the BHA points to historian David McCullough’s Newsweek article “Paving Over History” as “inspiration” to urge City Council members to vote against the plan. The BHA’s […]
Fixes Begin at Columbia Heights Horror House
Workers are replacing the roof at 194 Columbia Heights this week after huge wind gusts blew chunks of debris off the roof and onto the street below last week. The roofers started work on Tuesday and one worker estimated that the project could take all week, depending on the weather. On Feb. 13, emergency responders […]
There’s a Film Crew Outside Your Door.
Well, maybe not at this very moment. But, given that this is one of the most-filmed neighborhoods on earth, it’s bound to happen sooner or later. Most of us, I think it’s safe to say, find the attractiveness of the Heights to movie-makers something of which we can be proud, and take occasional slight inconveniences […]
Judy Stanton of BHA Named One of 50 “Most Influential”
Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, was recently named one of the fifty most influential people “who have shaped Brooklyn neighborhoods” by Brownstoner, which noted: Judy Stanton, head of the Brooklyn Heights Association, has been particularly effective in her role guarding the tony neighborhood. As one insider put it, Stanton “does change things when […]
BHA Plants Some Trees, Makes Life Pretty
This may be the year of the War on Trees, but the Brooklyn Heights Association is doing its part to add more to the neighborhood by planting new ones: Brooklyn Eagle: BHA Makes…: The trees are all different kinds; the type of tree that gets planted varies depending on the site. They are “scattered about […]
BHA Urges Members to Help Save LICH
The Brooklyn Heights Association is urging its members to mobilize and urge government officials to stop Continuum Partners, managers of Long Island College Hospital, from cutting services at the facility. NYS SD25 candidates Daniel Squadron and John Chromczak discussed the issue at BHB’s The Great Debate on Tuesday night and our own TK Small and […]
Rock n Roll Circus Fracas About the Noise or About the Money?
During last night’s concert at Pier 3, BHA Executive Director Judy Stanton sent the following dispatch to members. While its main purpose was to inform members on how to specifically identify the location of Pier 3 to 311 operators, it also included a mention (which the Brooklyn Paper reported on earlier this week, but heck […]
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