BHB pal/NY Post scribe Kate Briquelet takes Chuck Taylor’s BHB post about the hot dog vendor who dared to set up shop on Montague Terrace to a wider audience today in the tabloid’s online and print editions. (Editor’s note: The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the vendor – or any vendors – are not permitted by […]
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Lower Montague Gets Summer Street Vendor
In the decade-plus that I’ve lived in Brooklyn Heights, I never recall seeing a street vendor on the lower side of Montague Street. On Saturday, a licensed vendor had set up shop at the corner of Montague and Montague Terrace, near the Promenade. Said seller tells BHB that if business is brisk, he will be […]
Calling 311: Mangled Street Sign Remains For Months
Despite repeated calls to 311 since the beginning of March, a mangled street sign at the high-profile corner of Montague Street & Montague Terrace in Brooklyn Heights remains a disreputable eyesore. Whether a keen example of psychokinesis (think spoon bending) or a careless truck turning the corner, this signage, which marks one of the Promenade’s […]
Filming For CBS’ ‘Golden Boy’ Thursday & Friday: Remsen Street & Montague Terrace
Filming for CBS’ upcoming TV series Golden Boy will take place beginning Thursday April 5 at 10 p.m. into the day Friday April 6, along Montague Terrace and on Remsen Street to Hicks. A “No Parking” warning is posted in hot pink along the shoot’s locale. The upcoming hour-long drama is “about one cop’s meteoric […]
Photo Of The Day: Street Cleaning The Hard Way
It’s going to take a good long time to tidy up Brooklyn Heights’ Montague Terrace with this street-cleaning mechanism, observed curbside early Wednesday morning on trash day. Then again, given Brooklyn council members futzing with a city-funded street-cleaning program last summer, it may one day come to this.
Columbia Heights “America’s Most Literary Street”
According to Evan Hughes, in the Daily Beast’s “Book Beast”: Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding […]
New Yorker Covers BHA’s Wolfe-Fest
Ian Crouch, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, attended Monday’s “Evening at Mr. Wolfe’s”, presented by the Brooklyn Heights Association, and wrote an account of the event for the magazine’s blog, The Book Bench. Mr. Crouch misidentified the address of Thomas Wolfe’s one-time home, which is at 5 Montague Terrace, not Montague Street, but […]
L Magazine Names Three Brooklyn Heights Blocks Among Borough’s 50 Best
L Magazine has surveyed Brooklyn’s multitude of blocks, and named its fifty best in various categories. Two blocks completely, and one partially, in the Heights made the cut. The winner in the “Best Block for Historical Significance” class is Montague Terrace (see photo above). It was here, way back in 1776 at the “Battle” of […]
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