From the BHB Inbox comes this breaking news item from “MP”: I’m having dinner this evening al fresco at Tutt Café, and there’s a huge cat crossing the street. But it’s not a cat, it’s clearly a raccoon walking on the west side of Hicks Street, crossing Middagh and heading downhill towards Poplar. I got […]
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Can Alfalfa Stop the War on Trees?
Friends, there clearly is a war on trees happening in Brookyn Heights and DUMBO. Today’s reports from the Brooklyn Eagle regarding two evergreens put in “cement shoes” on Remsen Street and from the Brooklyn Paper of “artist” Olafur Eliasson’s continued NYC Waterfall attack on trees lining the Brooklyn Heights Promenade as well as trees at […]
Towns Won’t Debate Powell or Old Man Take a Look at My Life, I’m a Lot Like You Were
The Brooklyn Paper has offered neutral turf for debate to Rep. Ed Towns and his opponent Kevin “The Real World’ Powell in the race to represent the 10th Congressional District. Towns has refused according to the paper:
Senate Battle Dives into Semantic Cesspool
An email sent to BHB and other media outlets by Room 8 political blogger “C. Gatemouth Brown” over the weekend with the subject “I dare you to post this” touted a post on that site about the Connor/Squadron state senate race. It attempts to put a new spin on the weeks old story of NYS […]
DUMBO Car Smash-ins Get WCBS-TV’s Attention
WCBS-TV reported Thursday on a story that DUMBONYC had been on earlier this month – DUMBO’s problem of rampant car break-ins. The Brooklyn Paper reports that cops have a suspect – a career skell who was just released from jail in July. WCBS-TV: Blaring Alarms…: “[It happened to me] three times in the last month,” […]
Busted Chef’s Apartment Ransacked
The Brooklyn Paper reports that “Busted Chef” Dan Kaufman’s Pierrepont Street apartment – which the paper writes he rents from Busy Chef owner Alan Young – had its locks changed and was ransacked this week. The paper’s calls to Young for comment went unanswered: Brooklyn Paper: Busted Chef…: For the record, Brill said his client […]
Congregation B’nai Avraham Smash and Grab
Our pals at Congregation B’nai Avraham have had another break-in according to the Brooklyn Paper. Back in June, BHB reported on a similar smash and grab at the synagogue. Last year, the congregation were victims of the hate graffitti spree of alleged pipe bomber Ivaylo Ivanov. The thug in question in this case is quite […]
Paping Soapbox Derby – DEAD!
The Paping Soapbox Derby, which was scheduled for August 23 here in Brooklyn Heights has been killed. A cryptic email sent out by organizer John Meijas arrived in the BHB Inbox late last night:
Yassky Wantsky Middle Schoolsky at P.S. 8 Annexsky
The Brooklyn Paper brings us this tidbit regarding City Councilman David Yassky’s idea to make the planned P.S. 8 annex a middle school too: Brooklyn Paper: Heights Elementary…: Councilman David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights) even said this week that he’d change city law to circumvent the developer’s controversial 18-story residential tower — despite the 300-seat middle […]
Kuntzman Responds to BHB…On Gothamist
My name is Homer Fink and I wear the Scarlet Letter of being a BLOGGER. Or so says Gersh Kuntzman, Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Paper and my special friend, on Gothamist today. Responding to our story last week about what we knew and when we knew it about the Busted Chef caper and how we […]
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