Webbie apartmenttherapy.com is hosting a contest to discover 2013’s best “Small Cool Apartment.” Its judges will determine finalists based on photos of “compact homes” (alongside homeowners’ tips for living well in >1,000sf), with online voting for a Grand Prize Winner in June. Brooklyn Heights residents Justin and Matt, who live in a 590sf apartment on […]
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More Photos From My Walks; Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
A floral display on a stoop on Henry Street between Joralemon and Remsen. Photos in this post are from several walks over the past two weekends. A colorful row of townhouses on Joralemon between Hicks and Furman. Sand volleyball season has started on Pier 6. South Street Seaport Museum’s schooner Pioneer, seen from Pier 6. […]
Mid-day Walk Photos
Having slept in for a while this morning, I got a somewhat later start than usual on my Saturday walk, heading out shortly before noontime. As I walked, I noticed that the Forsythia, which were just beginning to bloom last week, and pear blossoms, which were not to be seen then, were profuse along Hicks […]
White Horse on Joralemon
As your correspondent was walking along Joralemon Street between Henry and Hicks yesterday evening, he saw the white horse used in the filming of Winter’s Tale being blanketed and about to be loaded into a trailer. The movie is based on a novel by former Brooklyn Heights resident Mark Helprin, and stars, among others, Heights […]
Web Series Checks Out “Garden Room” on Joralemon Street
SpacesTV, a YouTube web series, checks out a unique “Garden Room” somewhere on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. Can you figure out where? Watch the video after the jump.
Willowtowners Fear Traffic Nightmares From Fieldhouse Crowds
Yesterday (Wednesday) evening the Fieldhouse road show continued in Willowtown, at a meeting arranged by the Willowtown Association and hosted by their President, Ben Bankson. The opening presentation was similar to that at St. Francis on Monday, except that Fieldhouse Executive Director Greg Brooks stressed even more–no doubt anticipating the questions he knew would come–that […]
Film Shoot This Week: Joralemon Street From Hicks To Columbia Place
Signs are posted for a film shoot Monday and Tuesday June 18-19, that runs along the cobble-stoned Joralemon Street from Hicks down to Columbia Place. Cars must vacate the street from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on those days. The shoot is for a project called “Treasures.”
NYT ‘Habitats’ Profiles Heights’ Rez: ‘Love Story in Residence’
In a warm & fuzzy New York Times Habitats section profile, Brooklyn Heights’ residents Lucas Matthiessen and Claire de Brunner share their “Love Story in Residence,” including a vivid description of the couple’s “quirky 2-bedroom apartment” on Joralemon Street. Matthiessen was born in 1950s Paris and grew up in Greenwich Village. After marrying, having twin […]
Bloomin’ Brooklyn Heights
Early spring-like weather has been propitious for flowering plants, both in gardens and window boxes, around the Heights. The flowers in the photo at left are in front of the residence of garden designer Catherine Fitzsimmons on Joralemon Street between Hicks and Willow Place. More photos and text after the jump.
Mugging on Joralemon Street
A reader let us know that this past Saturday at about 9:55 p.m. he was mugged while walking on Joralemon Street between Clinton and Sidney Place. Two men, who appeared to be in their twenties, one wearing a camouflage coat and the other a dark sweater and baseball cap, overtook him on the sidewalk, then […]
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