On April 15 your correspondent took this photo of a “big rig,” a diesel powered tractor with an attached, very long, cargo carrying trailer, trying to navigate the corner from Montague to Hicks Street. Now Mary Frost in The Eagle has chronicled how this same truck, which makes deliveries to Key Food Montague, has been unleashing chaos on the streets […]
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Where Have All the Mailboxes Gone?
This is obviously an old photo, as it includes two now defunct restaurants; one of which is still mourned by your correspondent and by many others. The thing I want to point out, though, is the blue object on the sidewalk between a trash barrel and the back end of the motor scooter. Like the […]
Another Brooklyn Heights Residence Vandalized
Update: Mary Frost, in the Eagle, has more information, including the responses by City Councilmember Lincoln Restler and by the Brooklyn Heights Association. As reported by ABC7, an apartment building on Orange Street that is home to Columbia University’s Chief Operating Officer, Cas Holloway, was vandalized with red triangles painted on the door and each side of the doorway, and red […]
Arrest Made in Vandalism of Hicks Street Residence of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak
As we noted on June 12, vandals attacked the entrance to the Mansion House apartment building, 145 Hicks Street, home of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak. “The front of the building was defaced with red paint, inverted red triangles were painted on the doors, and [there was] hung up a banner that said ‘Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White-Supremacist […]
Willowtown Branch Collapse
Brooklyn Heights has had more than its share of bad weather lately. As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, a giant branch fell from a tree across Joralemon Street between Willow Place and Columbia Place on Tuesday, damaging two cars. See dramatic photos, by Willowtown Association President Linda DeRosa, in Ms. Frost’s linked Eagle story above. Click on “Read […]
L&B Spumoni Gardens May Open on Old Fulton in September
The 46 Old Fulton Street location (Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle) of the renowned Gravesend Sicilian pizza restaurant L&B Spumoni Gardens may, according to Mary Frost in the Brooklyn Eagle, open as soon as this September. It was expected to open as long ago as 2020 but, as the Eagle story notes, there have been repeated delays that the owners […]
City Council Legislation May Have Little Effect on Helicopter Noise
In April we noted that the City Council was considering legislation that would ban unnecessary (tourist and charter) helicopter flights, including all such flights to or from the Downtown Heliport directly accross the East River from Brooklyn Heights, and the 34th Street (East Side) Heliport, which generate much traffic that passes above or near the Heights. Now, The […]
High Winds Batter Brooklyn Heights
The photo above (C. Scales for BHB) is of a tree downed by yesterday’s high winds, lying across part of the Montague Street entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, next to Two Montague Terrace. We are told another tree was downed further north, near the Promenade, a day or two earlier. The intrepid Mary Frost […]
DOT Reveals New BQE Plans
As we noted a week ago, the City Department of Transportation has new plans for the reconstruction of the BQE Central, the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that runs below Brooklyn Heights, from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street, and would hold two public forums, one in person on June 20, and one on […]
Queens Bound BQE Closed to All Traffic June 1-3
As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, all Queens bound lanes of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street will be closed Saturday, June 1 through Monday, June 3. The bulk of the work will be done in two locations: near the foot of Grace Court and near the foot of Clark […]
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