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FDNY Emergency Drill on Montague This Evening

From NotifyNYC: FDNY in conjunction with the New York City Transit Authority will be conducting a full scale emergency exercise at the Montague Street Subway Station [sic: presumably this means the Borough Hall/Court Street station] located at Court and Montague Streets in Brooklyn between 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM tonight. During this time, Montague Street […]

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Mr. J. Celebrates the (Slightly) Early Arrival of Spring

Spring doesn’t officially arrive for (as of the time of this posting) 48 hours and 40 minutes, but today had a lot of us fooled. Our man with cam took advantage of the balmy weather to play the flaneur and give us a visual as well as aural narrative of this balmy day in Brooklyn […]

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The Blue Feather Boa of Montague Street

Montague Street between Hicks Street and Montague Terrace, Sunday afternoon, March 13, 2011. (Photo by C. Scales for BHB.)

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Mr. J. Visits St. Ann & the Holy Trinity

Our man with cam has put together a montage of historic photos of the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity (simply Church of the Holy Trinity until its merger with St. Ann’s Church in the 1970s), designed by the great 19th century church architect Minard Lafever, at Montague and Clinton streets, followed by […]

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New Laundromat Opens on Montague

A new laundromat has opened in the space next to Teresa’s, on Montague between Hicks and Montague Terrace, that was vacated after last year’s fire. Mr. J. paid a visit and made the video that follows the jump.

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Montague Street Snow Sculpture

BHB pal/Brooklyn Heights resident Greg “King of the iPad Newspaper” Clayman alerted us to this cool photo of a Montague Street snow sculpture from Tumblr blog Wanderlust.

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Snow ‘Nuff

The scene at the Montague Street entrance to the Promenade at about 2:30 this afternoon. According to Judah Cohen in today’s Times, we can blame this on global warming (or thank it, if you like sledding).

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Heights Couple Launch Theater 2020

Montague Street residents David Fuller and Judith Jarosz, who have been Executive Director and Producing Artistic Director, respectively, of Theater Ten Ten in Manhattan, have established a new company, Theater 2020–Visions for a New Millennium, to be based here in Brooklyn Heights. Theatermania.com: Judith Jarosz and David Fuller have announced the formation of Theater 2020. […]

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LA Times Covers Montague Street Christmas Tree Vendor in Brooklyn Heights

The LA Times profiles Patti Romp, who sells Christmas trees each year on Montague Street:

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Montague Loses a Pear Tree

This morning, reader Candy commented on Open Thread Wednesday that a tree was down on Montague street between Clinton and Henry. Your correspondent resolved to go for a look, but torrential rain and winds gusting to full gale force were an effective deterrent. Around 3:30 p.m., with the weather improved, I went out for a […]

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