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Halloween Memories in Brooklyn Heights, the return of Plymouth Church’s Yankee Fair and a Plan for Saturday’s Packed Community Calendar

I suppose we could have a debate, but I’d win: there’s really nothing more Fall than Halloween in Brooklyn Heights. And with a world going sideways, we need community, small humans and canines in costumes, Fall lovers and spectators, pumpkins, homemade treats and gratitude in this harvest home. This Saturday, October 28th, is shaping up for a […]

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BHA Spring Into Service May 7, 2023: Help Fill Food Pantries and Donate Gently Used Childrens’ Goods

The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual Spring Into Service event is this Sunday starting at 10:00 a.m. There are three ways to participate this year. 1. Help Take Care of Our Trees – In partnership with City Councilmember Lincoln Restler’s office and the Big Reuse, BHA calls for volunteers to give our trees some needed TLC. Volunteers will […]

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Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting 2023 Wrap-up

The Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting Extravaganza And Raffle for 2023 kicked off Wednesday night in a cozy 3rd floor church at Packer Collegiate Institute, an event this correspondent hadn’t attended in years (remember when we used to liveblog/tweet this thing?). Most of the excitement occurred in the opening moments of the BHA President Koren […]

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Montague Open Streets-Saturday, June 25

Open Streets Montague, sponsored by Montague Street BID and the Brooklyn Heights Association, returns this Saturday, June 25 from noon to 7:00 PM. All parked cars must be moved from Montague before then; an emergency lane will be open during the event. There will be music, games and activities for kids, and, again, a “pastry […]

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Brooklyn Heights Association Virtual Annual Meeting February 24

As the Brooklyn Heights Association notes: There was a time, not so long ago, when we thought we could hold our annual meeting live and in person once again. To paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry,” or, in other words, we will see you online […]

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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 […]

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The BHB Ten 2021: The Most Impactful People of Brooklyn Heights This Year

We’re bringing back a BHB tradition of an annual list, described by our founder John Loscalzo aka Homer Fink as “10 people who live or work in Brooklyn Heights who we think made an impact on our neighborhood, the city, the country, or the world” or who are “influential, altruistic or just plain special.” After […]

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Brooklyn Heights Association Raising Money for Victims of 132 Montague Fire

The Brooklyn Heights Association is asking the community to help out the victims of the fire that devastated 132 Montague Street: The BHA has been in touch with the Red Cross and we have determined that two of the apartments were occupied at the time of the fire. We know that our wonderful community wants […]

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Reminder: No Subway Service at Clark Street From Next Wednesday, November 3 Until Spring 2022

Work will begin next week on the elevator repairs at the Clark Street subway station, and, as the Eagle reports, starting Wednesday, November 3 (the Eagle headline says work begins November 1, but the body of the story says trains won’t bypass the station until November 3) trains will not stop at Clark Street. This […]

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The BQE and Surfside: an Inevitable and Necessary Comparison

Local activists Hilary Jager, Brooklyn Heights Association President Erika Belsey Worth, and Josh Vogel, all of whom are founding members of the Coalition for the BQE Transformation, have written an editorial published in the New York Daily News that notes the similarities between the conditions believed to have led to the collapse of the Champlain […]

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