BHB tried to order dinner from Kapadokya last night, but no one answered. Today Self-Absorbed Boomer and other commenters have informed us that our fave Turk eatery is closed for good. UPDATE: BHB reader epc tells us in comments that a new Mediterranean/Turkish restaurant called Taze will be opening in Kapadokya's location. The scrap heap […]
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NY Post Won’t Pay for Totaled Car
Rupert Murdoch's NY Post is claiming that it's not responsible for the total destruction of a nabe resident's car, according to Brooklyn Papers. A Post delivery truck collided with a car in early October, the report says, causing a chain reaction involving 6 parked cars. One of the vehicles was a 1990 Toyota belonging to […]
Signs Will Point to Bridge Path
It may be easier for folks without the "secret code" to find their way to the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian path, the Brooklyn Papers reports in this week's issue: Brooklyn Papers: Mapping a Way to the Bridge: It may take “practice” to get to Carnegie Hall, but to get to the virtually unmarked Brooklyn Bridge footpath […]
Not Kosher on Clark Street
Some disturbing news from Mike's Kosher Steakhouse as reported in today's New York Post: NY Post: Unkosher Sex Rap vs. Deli Man: A well-known Brooklyn kosher deli owner was busted for allegedly forcing himself on an 18-year-old waitress in the basement of his new eatery – and then calling to harass her after she quit, […]
NY Post Picks Up on BBP Subway Scheme
As previously reported, one of the access paths being proposed by city planners to Brooklyn Bridge Park is an underground access tunnel leading from the Clark Street subway station. With a pricetag of up to $50 million, one can only hope that the project would include major aesthetic improvements to the station's Clark Street arcade. […]
BBP Foes Lose Lawsuit
Brooklyn Papers reports that the Brooklyn State Supreme Court has ruled against nabe opponents of the development of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Brooklyn Papers: Brooklyn Bridge "Park" Opponents Lose Lawsuit: In a 22-page decision handed down Tuesday, Brooklyn State Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Knipel dismissed the opponents’ charge that the Empire State Development Corporation broke the […]
How Do You Get to Brooklyn Bridge Park?
Brooklyn Papers reports on upcoming meetings regarding access to the "new" Brooklyn Bridge Park (artist rendering above): How will you get to the development site commonly referred to as “Brooklyn Bridge Park”? Practice. Local officials who are devising ways to get people to the proposed apartment and commercial project along the Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO […]
How Kosher is Kosher?
Nabe journo Walter Ellis writes about his kitchen renovation, his neighbor’s renovation halted when the Orthodox Jewish contractor refused to work with a German architect, and other existential issues in his column in the Belfast Telegraph. One passage brings news of happenings at Mike’s Kosher Steakhouse: Round the corner from our apartment in Brooklyn Heights […]
Thug Nabbed in Heights Heist
The police blotter in this week's Brooklyn Papers reports that an arrest has been made in a mugging that occured on Middagh and Hicks on November 7. The thug held up the nabe resident with an air gun according to the report and demanded her bankcard and PIN. New York's Finest nabbed the 46 year […]
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