The Daily News has been highlighting spots worth visiting near various subway stops, and Rachel Wharton’s piece today focuses on the Borough Hall station. The three places she chooses for her article are Armando’s, Lassen & Hennigs, and O’Keefe’s. She notes that Armando’s “swinging red neon sign” with its iconic lobster “appeared on ‘The Cosby […]
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Encouraging News on the #SaveLICH Front
Today the City Council passed a resolution (approved by its Health Committee yesterday) that, according to the Eagle, “calls on the State University of New York and the State Department of Health to work with stakeholders to find a new owner for [Long Island College Hospital] the 150-year old Cobble Hill institution.” While the resolution […]
Coming Jewish New Year Makes Brooklyn Beekeepers Busy
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the celebration of which begins this coming Sunday evening, September 16, and ends the following Tuesday, is a time to enjoy honey. Today’s Daily News quotes a Brooklyn Heights beekeper: “I sell half of my supply in the weeks leading up to Rosh HaShana,” said David Glick, 27, who […]
Remembering 9/11 on the Promenade
Today’s Daily News profiles Kensington resident Susan Budgell, who was working in downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001, and who goes to the Promenade to pay her respects on 9/11 anniversaries because it’s too wrenching to return to Lower Manhattan. From Brooklyn Heights’ shoreline she gets a sense of perspective — and just enough distance […]
Rent-Stabilized Residents At 85 Livingston Fuming Over Rent Hike
Residents of 85 Livingston Street at the Brooklyn Heights/Downtown Brooklyn border are battling a $60 to $90 a month rent hike for 30 or so rent-stabilized units in the coop building, saying it will “devastate” the mostly elderly folks living in those apartments. While the majority of the building was converted to coops in 1989, […]
That Crunching Sound? Crane on Barge Hits Scaffolding Under Brooklyn Bridge
The Daily News reports that Tuesday evening, a crane carried on a barge ripped into the scaffolding, in place for repair work, under the Brooklyn Bridge. The Daily News story says there are no reported injuries, and no apparent structural damage to the bridge, though it is being inspected. At 9:15, Notify NYC reported that […]
Capote House on Willow Sells for $12 Million
The yellow house at 70 Willow Street where Truman Capote once lived has been sold after being on the market since May of 2010.
Brooklyn Heights Woman Latest Identified 9/11 Victim
Karol Ann Keasler, a Brooklyn Heights resident who was 42 and engaged to be married at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, where she worked, is now the 1,633rd victim of the disaster whose remains have been identified. New York Daily News: THE REMAINS of a globe-trotting Brooklyn […]
Teresa’s Shows in Daily News Egg Race
Teresa’s, the popular Polish/American eatery at 80 Montague Street (between Hicks and Montague Terrace) came in third in the paper’s citywide survey of egg breakfast offerings. New York Daily News: Sometimes less is more, and such is the case at Teresa’s in Brooklyn Heights. The eatery has become famous in its own right, mostly for […]
NY Daily News on the Neighbors of Brooklyn Heights’ Mysterious Secret Brownstone
The New York Daily News profiles the folks who live next door to 58 Joralemon Street aka the world’s only Greek Revival subway vent.:
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