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 […]
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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.:
Brooklyn Heights Girls in City Ballet’s Nutcracker
Today’s Daily News has a story about a group of kids from Brooklyn who have been chosen to play children’s roles in the New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s Nutcracker at Lincoln Center this season. Among those getting special mention, and photos, are Brooklyn Heights residents Elizabeth Haarsgaard, 9, who plays a girl […]
T.K. Small Talks Brooklyn Bridge Park Gravel with NY Daily News
BHB contributor/ mega-attorney T.K. Small was interviewed by the NY Daily News about the new gravel walkways at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1: NY Daily News: “See the way I’m bouncing around?” he said as he maneuvered his electric wheelchair over the path. “You’re just bumping along. It’s slow and tedious. “I can do it, […]
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