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“Frozen Zones” in the Heights and DUMBO Tonight

As previously reported, parking in Brooklyn Heights will be severely restricted for tonight’s fireworks as will access to some residential areas.

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Penthouse at One BPP Now Brooklyn’s Priciest

The penthouse at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, with an asking price of $32 million, is now Brooklyn’s priciest single family residential property. Gothamist comments, the penthouse has “a home theater, a climbing wall, a terrace, a wine room for 3,500 bottles, his and hers closets, [and] six bedrooms” as well as “a sick view of […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

Bargemusic returns from a mid-winter break this weekend, with a full schedule of “Masterworks” concerts: one on Friday evening, February 21 at 7:00 featuring works by Joseph Joachim, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu, and Ernest Bloch performed by Nicholas Cords on viola and Jeewon Park on piano; another on Saturday evening, February 22 at 7:00 featuring […]

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Tell Us About The Best Bite You Had In Brooklyn Heights In 2013

So, within the confines of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, what was the best thing you had to eat and drink in 2013?

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Pierson Poll-Watcher Says Widespread Vote Fraud Possible in Williamsburg

Gothamist reports on allegations of attempted voting fraud in Tuesday’s primary election, quoting David Greenberg, a poll watcher for unsuccessful City Council candidate and Brooklyn Heights resident Stephen Pierson (photo), as saying he observed so many attempts to vote using fraudulent credentials that he assumed the problem was “widespread.” Greenberg, who was observing voting at […]

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Gothamist Names Brooklyn Heights’ Park Plaza As One Of NYC’s Top 10 Diners

The Park Plaza Diner has made Gothamist’s list of the the Top 10 diners in New York City. The Cadman Plaza eatery joins such NYC icons as Prospect/Crown Heights’ Tom’s Diner, Neptune Diner in Astoria (Homer’s haunt backintheday) and Manhattan’s Market Diner (Poppa Fink’s fave).

The diner seems to have bounced back from last August’s fire that shut it down for a month.

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Venti Pimpin': Brooklyn Heights Starbucks Employees Sport Nets Apparel

Gothamist reports today that employees of some Brooklyn Starbucks stores, including the Montague Street branch, are being asked to wear Brooklyn Nets hats to promote the team who are now playing at the controversial Barclays Center: Gothamist: One employee at the Montague Street outpost told us the Nets advertising “started a couple of months ago […]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Raccoon Captured

Our friends at Gothamist got some scary looking photos taken last night by Bobby Finger of a ragged looking one-eyed raccoon seen climbing a chain link fence next to a walkway adjoining Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The critter in the photo above is another, much healthier looking Brooklyn raccoon, caught on pixels by […]

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Noisy Brooklyn Bridge Renovation Keeps at Least One Brooklyn Heights Resident Awake

A Cadman Plaza West resident tells Gothamist that they are losing sleep due to overnight work on the Brooklyn Bridge. An email exchange between the sleepless reader and outreach coordinator for the Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation project, Sabrina Lau basically nets out with something like – there are rules in place to curb noise but there’s […]

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Squadron Sponsors Crackdown on Careless Driving, and a Reader Gives a Glaring Example

State Senator Daniel Squadron is co-sponsoring, along with Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, a bill in the state legislature that would increase the power of police to bring charges in cases where it is believed that careless driving has caused injury or death. The legislators introduced VTL 1146 after the tragic deaths of Hayley Ng, 4, and […]

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