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Big Willie Style Around Brooklyn Bridge
Will Smith is filming his new vampire flick I Am Legend around the Brooklyn Bridge this week. Don't freak out when you see Blackhawk helicopters and tanks moving around the Manhattan side over the next few days. Brooklyn Paper has more info.
This Week in Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Paper's new Brooklyn Heights section features these stories: Arbor-Slide! Expert Says Park Contractor is Wounding Trees in Cadman Plaza Tetherball: The City Game is Back Heights Mystery Smell is Solved!
Monty Q’s Shut Down by Health Board
"Tom" reports in a BHB discussion that Monty Q's has reportedly been shut down by the Board of Health, racking up a whopping 56 violation points (almost 30 more than needed to close an establishment). Other BHB readers tell us that Monty Q staffers are rushing to get the restaurant back up to code. Full […]
Open Thread Wednesday
Last week's open thread was a lively discussion, so let's try it again. Anyone try Taze, the new restaurant in the Kapadokya spot? Will a national chain ever open in one of the huge spaces available on Clark Street? If you could open any kind of store in the neighborhood what would it be? Brooklyn […]
OTBKB Celebrates at Le Petite Marche
Brooklyn Paper's "Smart Mom" and publisher of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn Louise Crawford has a great post today about celebrating her Dad's birthday at Le Petite Marche: Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: My Father's Birthday: Tonight we ate in a new French place in Brooklyn Heights on Henry Street. The joint was packed and […]
Kosher Steak Drama Continues
The Brooklyn Paper reports that Mike's Kosher Steakhouse closed over a dispute between owner Mikel Domgjoni and his partner, nabe restaurateur Nando Ghorchian, over back rent. While Domgjoni hurls accusations of anti-semitisim at his partner in the article written by Christie Rizk, Ghorchian won't hear it telling the writer, "This is total bulls—t. I was […]
Thug Beats Heights Man
The Brooklyn Papers Police Blotter reports a December 26 incident in this week's edition: A man breaking into a Jeep on Clinton Street turned his violence on a Brooklyn Heights man walking home on Dec. 26, cops said, but still ended up empty-handed. As the 54-year-old victim neared the corner of Aitken Place around 11:15 […]
Heights Hero Reveals Herself
Our pals at Brooklyn Papers have uncovered the mystery of the Brooklyn Bridge footpath sign maker, it's nabe resident Roslyn Beck: Brooklyn Papers: Know Your Sign: The mystery of the surreptitious sign-maker has been solved! Okay, so it’s not exactly the Bermuda Triangle enigma, but for years, many Brooklyn Heights residents have wondered about […]
DUMBO Gets Trees
Brooklyn Papers reports that trees are being planted in DUMBO. “The streetscapes in this neighborhood have been neglected for years, not only due to a lack of trees, but also basic things like sidewalks and sewers,” Tucker Reed, executive director of the DUMBO Improvement District, tells the paper. “We’re just trying to catch up to […]
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