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Montague BID Stresses Service to Merchants, Community

The Montague Street Business Improvement District (“BID”) held its annual meeting at Eamonn’s yesterday evening. BID Executive Director Chelsea Mauldin (photo at left) said the BID must respond to the economic crisis by providing more services to businesses on Montague in, among other things, marketing and technology. As an example of marketing assistance, she cited […]

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Waterfalls Didn’t Hurt Trees, Now Can We Just STFU About It?

Just as experts promised last year during the brouhaha/embroglio/cluster**** over  Olafur Eliasson’s NYC Waterfalls art project allegedly inflicting damage upon trees along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade,  the Brooklyn Eagle has found someone who says the trees are A-OK.  Not only that, but the recent wet weather has caused  some trees along Columbia Heights to be  “too […]

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BHA to Members: Mobilize Against Dock Street DUMBO

The Brooklyn Heights Association sent out an email blast to its membership on Friday urging members to speak out against Two Trees’ Dock Street DUMBO project.  In the email, the BHA points to historian David McCullough’s Newsweek article “Paving Over History” as “inspiration”  to urge City Council members to vote against the plan. The BHA’s […]

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194 Columbia Heights Owner Speaks to Eagle

He didn’t have much to say, but Dr. Austin Moore the owner of what neighbors say is a neglected brownstone at 194 Columbia Heights spoke to the Brooklyn Eagle this week: Brooklyn Eagle: “I’ll probably surprise everybody by doing some improvements this spring,” Dr. Austin Moore, the owner, said in a slightly bemused voice in […]

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BHA Mobilizes Members Against Dock Street DUMBO

Members of the Brooklyn Heights Association received this dispatch moments ago regarding the organizations opposition to Two Trees’ Dock Street DUMBO project:

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Busted Chef Case Still Pending

Former manager of the Busy Chef restaurants on Henry Street, Daniel “Busted Chef”Kaufman, is awaiting a trial date for 24 counts of alleged fraud after appearing in Kings County Criminal Court on Dec. 26, 2008. Kaufman, who faces seven years in jail after allegedly stealing approximately $25,000 from former customers’ credit cards, is undergoing a […]

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Judy Stanton of BHA Named One of 50 “Most Influential”

Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association,  was recently named one of the fifty most influential people “who have shaped Brooklyn neighborhoods”  by Brownstoner,  which noted: Judy Stanton, head of the Brooklyn Heights Association, has been particularly effective in her role guarding the tony neighborhood. As one insider put it, Stanton “does change things when […]

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BHA Urges Members to Help Save LICH

The Brooklyn Heights Association is urging its members to mobilize and urge government officials to stop Continuum Partners, managers of Long Island College Hospital, from cutting services at the facility. NYS SD25 candidates Daniel Squadron and John Chromczak discussed the issue at BHB’s The Great Debate on Tuesday night and our own TK Small and […]

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Rally to Save LICH Today at 1pm

Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz, Congresswoman Nydia Velaquez and the LICH Medical Staff will hold a rally today at 1pm to ask for immediate action in fixing the crisis at Long Island College Hospital. The rally will be held on Hicks Street between Atlantic and Pacific.  The public is invited. BHA Executive Director Judy Stanton is […]

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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 […]

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