Update: Following last evening’s hearing, a majority of the Community Board 2 Land Use Committee voted to approve the new owner’s request for a variance to re-convert the Bossert to transient hotel use. The matter will now go to the full Community Board for consideration. We’ll keep you posted. David Bistricer, buyer of the Bossert […]
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Is Brooklyn Heights Walkable? You Bet!
I decided to take my own advice as well as test the theory L Magazine proposed, as reported here by Chuck Taylor. I had an errand to run at the Greenmarket, but I decided to go there, with camera, by a circuitous route, down the Promenade and Squibb Hill to Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, […]
Apartment Therapy Looks at Brooklyn Heights Couple’s Digs
Brooklyn Heights’ Remsen Street residents “Kim and George” get the full-on lookey loo treatment from home design site Apartment Therapy this week:
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 […]
Bloomin’ Brooklyn Heights
Early spring-like weather has been propitious for flowering plants, both in gardens and window boxes, around the Heights. The flowers in the photo at left are in front of the residence of garden designer Catherine Fitzsimmons on Joralemon Street between Hicks and Willow Place. More photos and text after the jump.
Ornamental Kale: The Cabbage That’s Eating Brooklyn Heights
Brassica oleracea is showing up everywhere in the neighborhood, as a survey by your correspondent today indicates. With its mix of white and colors and variety of leaf shapes (see photo, taken in the courtyard of Grace Church) it’s an eye-catching addition to gardens and window boxes. More photos after the jump.
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 […]
Massage Parlor coming to Remsen Street
To the hair and nail salons that have opened on Remsen St btwn Court and Clinton, add a new Massage Parlor. Massage Envy is a national chain offering 1-2 hour massage packages (including “Swedish”, Sports, reflexology, and special prenatal and geriatric services) along with facials and other spa treatments. Introductory pricing appears very reasonable, with $39 […]
NY Daily News Covers Autism Center’s Donation Drive
The Brooklyn Autism Center is in the midst of a fundraising drive that has to date raised $72k for the school at 111 Remsen Street. The NY Daily News profiles the BAC today:
Five Daytime Burglaries in Brooklyn Heights in Last Four Days
Judy Stanton, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, tells us that the 84th Precinct has advised her of five burglaries in the Heights in the past four days, all taking place during daytime. Three were in the same building, on Willow Street between Cranberry and Orange; one was on Remsen Street between Clinton and […]
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