A front page article in today's New York Sun tells of the chronic problems with the elevators at the Clark Street subway station. Brooklyn Heights Association Executive Director Judy Stanton is quoted as saying, "one working elevator out of three is about par". An odd and interesting fact, gleaned from former City Councilman Ken Fisher, is […]
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More on the Heartbreak on Remsen
The Brooklyn Eagle story on the fire Tuesday night at 42 Remsen is now online. At the time of the blaze, renovations were underway to repair damage done by Thanksgiving fire. According to reports from the scene, a "Collyer's Mansion" condition in the third floor apartment of Carolyn Rogers was the likely source of the […]
The Lameness of Montague Street Garners Attention
Via Curbed, the NY Observer asks "Montague Street R.I.P.?": If not for the iconic promenade overlooking the East River at Montague Street’s westernmost end, the average visitor strolling past Chipotle, Banana Republic, Häagen-Dazs, Nine West and Starbucks wouldn’t know these hallowed Heights from, say, Shaker Heights, Ohio. … Even on the relatively warm Saturday night […]
BHA Sour on Nabe Filming?
While Bay Ridge Councilman Vince Gentile pursues his bizarre plan to force film companies and the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting to seek community board approvals for film shoots, he seems to have the tacit backing of the Brooklyn Heights Association. BHA exec director Judy Stanton tells Brooklyn Paper, "it becomes very […]
Judges Pledge to Keep Parking Promise
After seven years, it seems that Brooklyn judges are ready to move their cars out of Columbus Park: NY Daily News: Judges Put Break on Park: Brooklyn judges are about to fulfill at least part of a promise made seven years ago. After a series of articles in the Daily News, Brooklyn judges recently agreed […]
LICH Closing?
The New York Post reports today that "state officials" are "considering" closing Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill. The hospital's Dr. Wayne March told staffers that the facility would stay open, the newspaper reports. However, he added that the state Health Care Commission for the 21st Century may try to shut it down. […]
There Go the Judges
New York Daily News: Feds Work to Give Parks Its Old Lot: As downtown Brooklyn leaders battle to push state judges' cars out of a city park, a federal court parking lot is being turned back into open space. Federal court officials closed down most of their parking lot in Walt Whitman Park next to […]
Illegally Parked? No Problem for Gov’t Vehicles
New York Times: …And a Battle Over Permits: Judy Stanton, president of the Brooklyn Heights Association, had just left a meeting about how hard it was to park locally. As she and a neighbor walked back home along leafy Clinton Street, they kept their meeting going, as the neighbor complained about illegal parking on Aitken […]
Judges Still Columbus Park(ing)
NY Daily News: Parking – In the Park!: A year after a new Brooklyn courthouse opened, judges are still parking in a nearby public park – even though they promised seven years ago to move to the new facility. Then-Administrative Judge Michael Pesce made the promise at a hearing in 1999 to calm community opposition […]
Local Man Pushes for Promenade 9/11 Memorial
The Brooklyn Eagle reports nabe resident Phil Asby an "artist and paralegal" is leading a movement to build a 9/11 memorial on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Both Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Heights Association's Judy Stanton have been "approached" with the idea according to the paper. It adds that Asby has contacted […]
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