It sounds like a game of “telephone”: a security guard at Brooklyn Bridge Park (who heard it from wherever) told it to “a long-time Brooklyn Heights local.” The Brooklyn Paper reports that said long-time local announced the news at Wednesday evening’s meeting about the proposed tower on the site of Pineapple Walk, but was silenced […]
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Want to Make Music? Join the “Bell by Bell” March in DUMBO Monday Evening
The Brooklyn Paper reports that, as part of the annual Make Music Winter event, there will be a parade on Monday evening, December 21 from the DUMBO Archway, Water Street and Anchorage Place to Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Participants will be given color coded bells, and during the march “conductors” will raise colored […]
Community Board 2 Quits Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council
The Brooklyn Paper reports that Community Board 2 has decided to withdraw its representation from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council because, as CB2 Chair Shirley McRae wrote in a letter to Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation President Regina Myer: The discourse at and resultant actions of the CAC often appear to be adversarial to […]
SUNY Drops LICH Talks with Peebles; Turns to Fortis
The Brooklyn Paper reports that SUNY today announced it has broken off talks with Peebles Corporation, which became the favored bidder for Long Island College Hospital after the initial first place bidder, Brooklyn Health Partners, was declared disqualified. SUNY is now negotiating with Fortis Property Group, which scored third in the bidding and which, in […]
Brooklyn Law School Selling Heights Properties
The Brooklyn Paper reports that Brooklyn Law School has put on the market six residential buildings in Brooklyn Heights it has used as student housing. These are: 89 Hicks Street (photo), which BLS bought from Watchtower in 2006; 18 Sidney Place; 144 Willow Street; 100 Pierrepont Street; 27 Monroe Place; and 88 Monroe Place. The […]
Heights Cinema to Have Space in New Building, But Must Seek Temporary Home
The Heights Cinema will have a home in the new building to be constructed on its site: The Brooklyn Paper: Landlord Tom Caruana says he will save space for the beloved movie house on Henry Street when he tears down the old-timey theater and constructs a new apartment building at the site — succumbing to […]
Driver and Car Needed to Help Dog Adoption Event
Kate Briquelet of The Brooklyn Paper has asked for our help finding a driver and car to bring puppies from Basking Ridge, New Jersey to Brooklyn Heights for an adoption event sponsored by the North Shore Animal League to take place tomorrow from noon to 6:00 p.m. at 108 Court Street, near Schermerhorn. These are […]
Will Someone Buy the Heights Cinema Building to Preserve It?
Kate Briquelet’s Brooklyn Paper story quotes Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy as saying he has “received e-mails from people interested in buying the building.” The Brooklyn Paper: “There are a lot of people who want to keep it around,” said Lowy, who hopes to find a new home for the theater if the building […]
Names of Park Hotel/Condo Complex Review Team Revealed
Giving in to demands by local residents and elected officials, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has disclosed the names of the people who will decide which of the seven proposed hotel and residential complexes will be built next to Pier 1. The Brooklyn Paper: On Monday, park staff revealed the four members on the heretofore […]
Squeezing Out Sparks: Biviano Debates Millman
News Corp’s Community Newspaper Group (the Brooklyn Paper, Courier-Life) hosted a debate last week between the two candidates squaring off for the Democratic nomination in the 52nd NYS Assembly District. Incumbent Joan Millman and challenger/ Brooklyn Heights resident Doug Biviano discussed many local issues, but one topic appears to be gaining traction (operative word: […]
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