Last Sunday’s launch of a car-free summer piazza on Montague Street was under-whelming for many. In this week’s Brooklyn Paper, the BHA’s Judy Stanton blames the city for not supplying enough chairs, while Montage BID’s Chelsea Mauldin says everything went according to plan. The paper also mentions that Heights Books doubled its usual Sunday business […]
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Part of Brooklyn Bridge Park Will Be Completed Next Year
The Brooklyn Paper reports that “part” of Brooklyn Bridge Park will be completed by the end of next year: Brooklyn Paper: Part of Park…: [Regina Myer, the BBPDC president] said the two portions of the park that will be completed by the end of 2009 are part of Pier 6, at the foot of Atlantic […]
Cops Nab Cranberry Thugs
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter brings us this tidbit about an attempted mugging at the corner of Cranberry and Hicks:
BBP: Marty – We’ll Find the Money
Looks like the cost of Brooklyn Bridge Park has more than doubled since the original estimates in 2002. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the bill for BBP will now be somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 million. No worries friends, State Senator Marty Connor apparently has some magic beans:
Yesterday’s News is Tomorrow’s Fish and Chip Paper or Kuntzman Greets Fleet at Floyd
We kid the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman, because we love the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman. There we said it. He may think we bloggers are a bunch of nudnicks but such is life. But seriously, you think anyone at Courier-Life or the Brooklyn Eagle is this much fun? (Hmmm… that Krogius guy might be a […]
Kuntzman: From Special Friend to Scat?
The “geniuses” at Cobble Hill Blog are in a tizzy over the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman and his recent “podcast” involving being a “special friend” to the kids at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (as “seen on Gawker“). Actually, they’re more in a snit over Kuntzman’s creative direction – one of his latest videos involves […]
Were You Obama’s Neighbor?
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama lived in Brooklyn Heights as previously reported. Obama told the Brooklyn Paper:
Welcome to the Nabe Korres, Now Take Those Banners Down
Usually when something terrible or wonderful happens in Brooklyn Heights, we’ll get an email from a member of the BHB community. Sometimes a photo of the “incident” is provided too. This Internet thing is good like that. So it surprised us to see an item in this week’s Brooklyn Paper about the “outrage” over Brooklyn […]
La Traviata: No Delivery for You!
After receiving a tip from “RH”, BHB has confirmed that La Traviata — arguably the nabe’s “go to” for quick Italian delivery — has suspended delivery. Reports are that they’ve lost the lease on their satellite store that handled delivery orders. This contradicts a recent report in the Brooklyn Paper which claimed the lease had […]
Condos 1, Park Defense Fund 0
Brooklyn Bridge Park will have condos, so shut your piehole the State Supreme Court says: Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn Bridge Park Goes Forward: Brooklyn Bridge Park cleared another hurdle this week, as the State Supreme Court ruled against opponents of the open space and luxury housing development, unanimously upholding the state’s inclusion of private housing inside […]
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