Norman Mailer loved Fortune House and a few months before he shuffled off this mortal coil, Mrs. Fink spotted him at Tenda (now “Saketumi“). Anyone who has walked around Brooklyn Heights knows one thing for sure — there are many Asian restaurants to choose from – Chinese, sushi, Thai, “fusion” et al. What’s your favorite? […]
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Heights History (A Slight Return): Henry Miller’s Henry Street Hellhole
Over the years, Brooklyn Heights has been home to enough writers, actors, musicians, and visual artists to rival its not-too-distant neighbor Greenwich Village as a Bohemian community. Many, including novelist Norman Mailer, playwright Arthur Miller, and sculptor John Rhoden, seem to have liked living here. Horror fiction master H.P. Lovecraft, by contrast, found the neighborhood […]
Lit Luminaries David Schisgall & Evgenia Peretz Heights-Bound With $5.7M Home Purchase
Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Truman Capote, W.H. Auden, Thomas Wolfe, and Arthur Miller… Now Brooklyn Heights adds two more to its long list of literary luminaries. Documentary filmmaker & writer David Schisgall and his wife, Vanity Fair writer Evgenia Peretz, have purchased a single-family brownstone at 16 Garden Place, for $5.7 million, according to realtor […]
Stumped for a Halloween Costume? Try These Brooklyn Heights Infused Ideas!
Tired of dressing up as “Sexy Cat in the Hat” or “Sexy Vampire” for Halloween? While “Sexy Ghost” may still be an option for you, why not try these Brooklyn Heights inspired costumes (feel free to add the words “Zombie”, “Sexy”, “Spooky” or “Bleh” to spice it up):
Reflections On 1974 Brooklyn Heights From A BHB Reader
We’re plucking this endearing reader comment from the June 10 BHB post “Montague Street Is Stirring As It Hasn’t In Years,” which was contributed by Richard Grayson, whose musings on growing up in the borough are published in his multi-series e-book “The Brooklyn Diaries,” available on amazon.com here. Grayson was born in Brownsville in 1951 […]
Pier 6 Pedestrian Safety Gets Boost as DOT Adopts BHA Prexy’s Plan
The issue of safety for pedestrians going to Pier 6 of Brooklyn Bridge Park with its popular playgrounds and volleyball courts has been a priority for the Brooklyn Heights Association for the past year and a half. The BHA now sends us this news: Ever since the playgrounds opened on Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge […]
Columbia Heights “America’s Most Literary Street”
According to Evan Hughes, in the Daily Beast’s “Book Beast”: Columbia Heights, a short street in Brooklyn, just might be the most literary street in America. Columbia Heights is the closest street to the water in the quiet, leafy Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, and the authors who have lived there, if they were lucky, enjoyed commanding […]
CVS Site Was Once Henry Miller’s Hellhole
Over the years, Brooklyn Heights has been home to enough writers, actors, musicians, and visual artists to rival its not-too-distant neighbor Greenwich Village as a Bohemian community. Many, including novelist Norman Mailer, playwright Arthur Miller, and sculptor John Rhoden, seem to have liked living here. Horror fiction master H.P. Lovecraft, by contrast, found the neighborhood […]
Ragtime Author E.L. Doctorow to Speak at St. Francis
E.L. Doctorow, one of the most accalimed writers of contemporary American fiction, whose novels include Ragtime (1976 National Book Critics Circle Award; a 1981 movie version starred James Cagney as a police commissioner and Norman Mailer as the architect Stanford White), World’s Fair (1986 National Book Award), and, most recently, Homer & Langley (2009), a […]
BHA Sponsors “Literary, Artistic and Cinematic” Walking Tour This Sunday
This coming Sunday, June 27, the Brooklyn Heights Association, as part of its continuing centennial celebration, will present a walking tour of Brooklyn Heights focusing on the neighborhood’s heritage in literature, the visual arts, and film. The tour will be led by the BHA’s newly inaugurated President, Jane McGroarty, an architect and thirty year Heights […]
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