The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter is chock full of Brooklyn Heights heists this week including this robbery: A perp broke into an apartment on Willow Street between Middagh and Cranberry streets on Oct. 17, getting a television, several video game consoles and programs, a laptop, an iPod, and several pieces of expensive jewelry. The woman […]
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Axe Falls for 100 at LICH; More Layoffs May Follow.
The Brooklyn Paper reports that 100 employees of Long Island College Hospital were notified today that they are being laid off. In addition, the Hospital is eliminating another fifty currently unfilled positions. Many more layoffs will follow if the New York State Department of Health approves the application of Continuum Health Partners, which manages LICH, […]
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 […]
LICH Management “Stonewalling” Feds
According to the Brooklyn Paper, Continuum Health Partners, the owner and manager of Long Island College Hospital, has been “stonewalling” the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has insured $143 million of the Hospital’s debt, by failing to provide a plan to restore the institution to financial health. The article also quotes Borough […]
BHA on Tree Killin’ Waterfalls: Never Again!
Even though an arborist tells the Brooklyn Paper that the Brooklyn Heights trees assaulted by the salt water spray of Olafur Eliasson’s NYC Waterfalls will not be permanently damaged, it’s enough for the BHA to shout “never again!”:
Judges Will No Longer Park…in the Park
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the strip of parkland near the Adams Street courthouses will no longer be used as a driveway/parking lot of judges: Brooklyn Paper: Judges End…: Over the next two months, city workers will install an entrance into the judge’s actual parking lot so that the robed jurists can directly access the […]
B’Paper: Jail Closer to Re-opening?
From CHB: Looks like the House of D on Atlantic Avenue is one step closer to re-opening according to the Brooklyn Paper.
The Envelope, Please.
The award for zaniest headline goes to Mike McLaughlin of The Brooklyn Paper for this. Hmmm…methinks young Mike’s (we hope) temporary state of deprivation may be affecting his writing style. Velvets and James Brown? Can’t fault his taste in music.
Crime Wave!
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter is full of Brooklyn Heights crimes this week including – thugs mugging citizens on High Street and Pinapple Street as well as burglaryapalooza in the nabe with at least 3 reported break-ins. Not to mention last night’s reported gun point robbery on Joralemon. Is it time to send the boys […]
No Two Buck Chuck at TJ’s
For those of you who are stoked about the Court Street Trader Joe’s Grand Opening next Friday, we hope you’re not pinning all your dreams on chugging a bottle of the chain’s famous Two Buck Chuck selection of wines. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Brooklyn location will not be stocking alcohol including the award […]
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