Rupert Murdoch’s Brooklyn Paper has finally caught up to the issue of helicopter noise over Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Promenade and Brooklyn Heights. Its sister publication, the NY Post ran a short story yesterday about the press conference held Friday by local officials regarding the issue. However the Brooklyn Paper’s coverage was no where […]
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Brooklyn Paper Offers Guide to Pier 1
The Brooklyn Paper has published a useful guide to the newly opened Pier 1 section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. One downer: there are, at present, no “facilities”, which seems especially problematic given the presence of a playground. Update: According to Curbed, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation promises portable potties within three weeks. Until then, […]
It’s a Drag, Regal Cinemas Lookin’ in Your Bag
File this one under: “First World Problems” but it seems that the “Nightmare on Court Street” aka the Regal Theater is living up to its name once again. This time around it’s about gender specific bag searches and our man in the City Council David Yassky (hey shouldn’t he busy doing “important stuff”?) has gotten […]
Brooklyn Paper Hates Brooklyn Heights Landmark Lighting Plan
Earlier this month, it was announced that a project to replace Brooklyn Heights street lamps with historically accurate “Bishop’s Crooks” fixtures would begin soon. The paper has written about the $650k in Federal and NYC dollars being used to fund Phase 1 of the proposed $2.7 million plan calling it “pork”. This week the paper […]
Biv Against the Machine
The Herd for the 33rd City Council District met last night, minus a couple of sheep, for a debate in Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Paper’s Ben “The Other Guy” Muessig was on the scene and reports that our homegrown candidate, Doug Biviano was quite animated to say the least:
Internet? Feh! B’Paper Home Delivery Returns to Brooklyn Heights
News Corp/CNG’s Brooklyn Paper is coming back to a doorstep near you. The paper suspended home delivery some time ago: Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn Heights – We’ll target Columbia Heights between Montague and Cranberry streets; plus an area bounded by Willow and Sidney places, and State and Joralemon streets. Seems like a big chunk of the […]
LICH Obstetrics Decline
As reported by The Brooklyn Paper: Long Island College Hospital is in the midst of a precipitous drop in births this year, months after threatening to shut its maternity ward, a decline that is resulting in large increases in deliveries at other Brooklyn hospitals, including a record number of births in 48 hours at one […]
This just in: Murdoch buys The Brooklyn Paper!
Rupert Murdoch has purchased the 31-year-old Brooklyn Paper, and will now include it in its Community Newspaper Group, a source has confirmed to BHB.
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