It’s that time of week for the Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter. This time around we learn about two thugs mugging folks on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges as well as this tender tale of a skell shaking down a 13 year old: Brooklyn Paper: Police Blotter: A thug mugged a 13-year-old — from Manhattan, no […]
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Thugs Rob Montague Street Store
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter reports some shenanigans in Brooklyn Heights over the last few weeks including news of a store robbery on Montague Street (anyone have a clue what store it was?): Brooklyn Paper: Police Blotter: Someone robbed a Montague Street bodega on Nov. 2. The 39-year-old man working in the store, which is […]
The Brooklyn Paper Condemns Yassky
In a sign that the anger directed at David Yassky goes beyond the readers of the BHB, The Brooklyn Paper recently published a scathing editorial entitled: “Yassky’s integrity terminated. The editorial goes on to assert that – “Mayor Bloomberg and a majority of the Council subverted the voters’ will in a reprehensible, undemocratic, rushed, back-room manner.”
Un-Term Limited Millman Slapskys Yassky
It’s days like this that we have to really give a big High Five to our special friend Gersh Kuntzman errr The Politicker errr Politicrasher who is totally NOT Gersh at the Brooklyn Paper. Witness this deconstruction of reaction to City Councilman David Yassky’s two step on term limits: Brooklyn Paper: They lyin…: Assemblywoman Joan […]
Nabe Crime Roundup
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 […]
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 […]
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