This time it’s The New York Times that’s weighing in on the increasingly controversial $40 million Field House proposed for Brooklyn Bridge Park. In a lengthy story titled “A $40 Million Gift, a Proposed Bike Arena and Now Skepticism in Brooklyn,” writer Lisa Foderaro ventures that Joshua P. Rechnitz’s pledge to build a field house […]
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Times Remembers Eagle’s Dennis Holt, Civil Rights Hero
In the Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section, Kevin Baker remembers his friend of many years, Dennis Holt, who died last month. Baker paints a colorful portrait of Holt as “a classic New York eccentric” who once chased an intruder from his Boerum Hill townhouse while brandishing a Civil War era dress sword.
NYT ‘Habitats’ Profiles Heights’ Rez: ‘Love Story in Residence’
In a warm & fuzzy New York Times Habitats section profile, Brooklyn Heights’ residents Lucas Matthiessen and Claire de Brunner share their “Love Story in Residence,” including a vivid description of the couple’s “quirky 2-bedroom apartment” on Joralemon Street. Matthiessen was born in 1950s Paris and grew up in Greenwich Village. After marrying, having twin […]
New York Times Gives Mexican Gran Electrica A Taste Test
Gran Electrica, the Mexican restaurant that opened in March at Five Front Street on the DUMBO border, gets the full treatment in a New York Times review. Mind you, our own BHB Karl Junkersfeld has already weighed in. His verdict: “Delicioso.” The Times’ Robin Finn remarks that the restaurant “is a brick-walled, votive-lighted, tin-ceilinged amalgam […]
Heights’ Downtown Neighbor Reclaims Residential Rights
In recent times, the 15,000 folks that reside across the half-square mile of Brooklyn designated as “Downtown”—unfolding at the ends of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges—have again earned the right to call their locale a “neighborhood.” With a massive influx of new residential projects, it is no longer merely “near Brooklyn Heights” or “on the […]
NYT Profiles Brooklyn Heights’ Packer Institute
“As a Private School in Brooklyn Raises Its Profile, Questions of Identity Arise.” That’s the exploratory headline for a Sunday New York Times profile of Packer Collegiate Institute, the Brooklyn Heights K-12 prep school that’s been located at 170 Joralemon Street since its founding in 1845. The 1,100-word NYT story explores the growing pains of […]
February House Update: Times Gives It a Rave
February House, the new musical play by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley that imagines life at 7 Middagh Street in the early 1940s, when the house was inhabited by a stellar and remarkably disparate collection of poets, composers, and novelists (including a striptease artist who became a novelist while living there) of various aesthetic and […]
Sifton Reminisces About Pizzas Past, Looks to Future at BHA Meeting
New York Times National Editor Sam Sifton recalled a rough-and-tumble childhood growing up on Willow Street, learning tricks like heading down Grace Court, which would trick pursuers seeking to “yoke” him into thinking he would be trapped on a dead-end street, then going over the fence and walking above the BQE to safety on Remsen […]
Quote Of The Day: To Foster Critical Writing Acclaim, “Move To Brooklyn Heights”
Award-winning author Adrian McKinty offers a pretty amusing post on his well-traveled blog “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” about “How to write a New York Times best-selling crime novel.” McKinty has penned 12 acclaimed crime and mystery novels, including “Dead I May Well Be,” “The Dead Yard,” “Fifty Grand” and “Falling Glass.” Depending upon your […]
BHS Exhibit Praised on Times Opinion Page
Brooklyn native and New York Times writer Francis X. Clines, in a short essay at the bottom of today’s opinion page, observes: Just as Americans visit the Old World in search of family roots, tourists are showing up at the Brooklyn Historical Society, in hopes of tracking down their grandparents’ neighborhood ties and old houses […]
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