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Heights History: That Time Zombies Invaded Brooklyn Heights

Way back in 2012, the New York State Lottery filmed a commercial in and around Brooklyn Heights. It featured zombies…lots of zombies. By mid-afternoon, the storyboard had evolved to a crowd of zombies collected around the shiny new newspaper vendor site in front of City Chemist at 129 Montague (with a car now completely overturned), […]

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Italian Zombie Revival For BHB’s Claude Scales

BHB legend has it that our own Claude Scales once “starred” in a Zombie flick. Okay, it’s not really a secret, but now an Italian movie fan is giving the film a big thumbs up. Or maybe it’s really a big che diavolo è che. Watch the full clip after the jump.

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Brooklyn Heights Zombie Invasion!

Filming for a New York Lottery commercial continued throughout the afternoon Tuesday March 20, in front of Banana Republic at 133 Montague Street. This morning, Heights resident Rick Elkin shared with BHB that the action was focused on a vehicle with smashed windshield and a felled lamp-post. Ouch!

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Crash! Boom! Bang! Montague Street Is A Disaster!! (As Crews Film A TV Commercial)

Professional photographer & Heights resident Rick Elkins was walking through the neighborhood around 11:15 this morning, when he came upon the scene of a horrendous mass of metal and debris in front of Banana Republic at 133 Montague Street. Amid the debacle were a vehicle with a smashed windshield, a felled lamp-post and a crushed […]

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Zombies March For Libraries!

As my colleague Heather Quinlan previously announced, librarians (yes, those are librarians in the photo above) gathered at the north end of Cadman Plaza Park this morning to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall to protest cuts to the City’s budget for its library systems. (More photos and text after the jump.)

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Help Zombies Shuffle Over Brooklyn Bridge, Save Libraries

Zombie librarians love two things: brainy people and the Dewey Decimal System. So come join them as they try to save NYC libraries with a Halloween walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. (Bonus points for already wearing a zombie costume on Halloween, thus killing two undead birds with one stone.) Info after the jump.

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