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How Sweet Is Is: Recycling Resumes This Week

November 12, 2012

At last… All of those clear and blue bags packed with recyclables (that few seem to have stowed back indoors) are ready for pick-up as our local Sanitation Department works overtime Monday, even though it’s a federal holiday (Veterans Day).

If your building’s recylables are typically collected Monday, they should hit curbside before midnight Sunday, alongside regular trash. Wednesday recycling will return to normal on that day. If you live on or north of Joralemon Street, please hold recyclables until late Tuesday night.


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Homer Fink’s Hidden Brooklyn Heights Pop Up Tour Sunday (11/11) to Benefit Sandy Relief

November 10, 2012

This just in: We’re hosting a Pop Up edition of Homer Fink’s Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour this Sunday 11/11 at 11 am. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Hook Initiative who are on the frontlines of Sandy relief in our area.

Donation ticket price is $20. Buy ‘em here.


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Halstead Realty Collecting Goods For Rockaway Hurricane Victims This Weekend

November 9, 2012

Halstead Realty at 150 Montague Street (between Henry and Clinton) is directing another much-needed food & goods drive this weekend, in which they intend to pack a moving van with requested items for Hurricane Sandy residents in The Rockaways. Please bring donations by the shop Saturday & Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Broker Meryl Blackman tells BHB that the truck will arrive in front of the shop at 9 a.m. Monday, and is asking area residents to contribute specific items that donation centers have asked for. She adds that Halstead volunteers will be going door to door in areas “where many people and pets are shut in with no elevators.” See the list below…

In addition, Corcoran Reality is collecting items for The Rockaways. Drop goods by their BH location at 124 Montague St.

FOR HALSTEAD’S COLLECTION EFFORT:
• Canned Food/Can Openers
• Electric/extension Cords/Rope/Tarps
• Pet Food – wet and dry
• Multi-roll packages of toilet paper
• Batteries (especially AA and D)
• Rubber Gloves – Dish gloves, and medical
• Work Gloves (all sizes) and Work Shams
• Bleach/Cleaning Supplies
• Contractor Bags/Heavy Duty Plastic Bags
• Adult Diapers, Baby Wipes
• Feminine Products
• Handwarmers (the self-heating kind)
• New unopened packages of underwear/socks – for Men, Women and Children
PLEASE NO CLOTHING OR BLANKETS!


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Brooklyn Heights, Food

Red Hook’s Beloved Fairway Market Closed ‘Indefinitely’ After Hurricane Sandy

November 9, 2012

The New York Times reports on the devastating flooding from Hurricane Sandy of Red Hook’s Fairway Market—a favorite of many Brooklyn Heights’ shoppers—and its impact on so many other smaller shops in the neighborhood. The 52,000sf waterfront grocery at the base of Van Brunt took on 5 feet of water and is closed indefinitely. The Times says: “Fairway was a destination after it opened in a striking, sprawling, brick-and-wrought-iron Civil War-era building six and a half years ago.”

Fairway Market suffered ruined floors and ovens, display cases tipped and shattered, a $50,000 coffee roaster is trashed, wooden cash registers were scattered everywhere… There’s also potential structural damage. Cheeses, breads, vegetables & canned goods blanketed the puddled floor. Workers threw out everything, filling 70 dumpsters.

UPDATE: More in The Brooklyn Paper, including photos, here.

Meanwhile, neighboring Italian wine shop Botta di Vino, which opened two and a half years ago, is also seeing the effects of the store closing. Co-owner Triciann Botta says, “It is the lifeblood of this neighborhood. I’m a wine seller. Food goes with wine. When we lost Fairway, we lost a big part of our customer base.” Others impacted: cafe & bar Fort Defiance, wine shop Dry Dock, gift shop Foxy & Winston, and restaurants Home/Made and the Good Fork (which took on 2 feet of water in its dining room).

Read more in the Times here. (Photo: Brooklyn Paper)


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Brooklyn Heights, Events

PS8 Garden Committee Hosts Street Care Workshop Saturday

November 9, 2012

The newly formed PS 8 Garden Committee will host its kick-off event for this year on Saturday, November 10, from 10 a.m. to noon: A street tree care workshop run by Brooklyn Botanic Garden volunteers helping out with garden-related efforts.

Ansley Samson tells BHB, “We’ll be mulching, composting, and planting bulbs in the 12 tree pits that surround our school, and also making sub-irrigated planters out of 2-liter soda bottles and other kid-friendly activities. More info on its website here. Poster below.


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R Subway Train Still Drying Out

November 9, 2012

An article in Time titled “New York Transit System’s Openness about Sandy Recovery Makes New Yorkers Hate Them Less,” posted November 8, discusses MTA’s clean-up efforts following Hurricane Sandy, including 15 dramatic video clips uploaded in the past week showing their ongoing efforts.

Relevant to Brooklyn Heights: “The Montague Street Tunnel, which brings the R train under the river between Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan’s Battery Park, was inundated by millions of gallons of water and is still being dried out.” The L train, as we know, is also still AWOL… Sigh… One at a time.

The piece concludes, “The MTA is keeping commuters updated on every movement via YouTube and social media. It’s all very 21st century for a transit system with its roots in the 19th century. Fixing these problems has required bringing in powerful machinery—not to mention an Army Corps of Engineers ‘dewatering’ team from Illinois—as well of thousands of hours of overtime work by MTA employees. And riders, inconvenienced or not, are gaining a modicum of respect for the authority that is normally among the most hated-on in New York City.”


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Montague Street Walloped By Quick & Dirty Snowstorm

November 9, 2012

Who’d have believed that Hurricane Sandy would turn out to be the kinder, gentler storm—in Brooklyn Heights, mind you. Wednesday night’s sopping slushy snowstorm took down trees and major branches not only on Remsen, but all along Montague Street, from Hicks to Clinton streets. Heavy brush was also seen on Pierrepont early Friday.

Fortunately, as of 7 a.m., garbage trucks were circling the neighborhood like buzzards, picking up as much of the debris as they could munch down upon. All the same, some sad losses among our foliage that will require major mending in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile, the mature fallen tree across Remsen Street is gone! More Montague pics below. (CT)


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Gas Rationing Comes to Brooklyn Heights

November 8, 2012

The lines at the Shell station on Atlantic Avenue will be getting shorter—but only because Mayor Bloomberg has imposed a “odd and even” emergency rationing plan. Beginning Friday, you’ll only be able to drive into a gas station to fill up if your license plate ends with an odd or even number, depending on the date of the month (if your plate ends with letter, join the “odd” days queue). Unlike New Jersey, the Emergency Order does not provide an option for walking up with a gas canister.

P.S. The Atlantic Shell station is currently out of gasoline, with a sign posted saying it doesn’t know when the next supply is coming in.


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Gas rationing comes to BH

November 8, 2012

The lines at the Shell station on Atlantic Avenue will be getting shorter — but only because Mayor Bloomberg has imposed a “odd and even” emergency rationing plan. Beginning tomorrow, you’ll only be able to drive into a gas station to fill up if your license plate ends with an odd or even number, depending on the date of the month (if your plate ends with letter, join the “odd” days queue). Unlike New Jersey, the Emergency Order does not provide an option for walking up with a gas canister.


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After The Snowstorm: Remsen Street Completely Blocked By Downed Tree

November 8, 2012

While Brooklyn Heights suffered comparatively little damage following Hurricane Sandy, the weight of the wet, slushy snow from Wednesday’s snow took its toll. The huge mature tree that fell around 10 p.m. has completely blocked access on Remsen Street between Montague Terrace and Hicks Street. That’s for vehicles and pedestrians.

Three cars were impacted by the tree: The one closest to the downed trunk was apparently illegally parked (and seems to have suffered little to no damage), while one on the far side had its back windshield smashed.

As of 9 a.m. Thursday, no crews had yet come to start clearing the debris. The tree—which still had plenty of green leaves—was anchored against the edge of 33 Remsen Street; the building appears to be a-okay, although the scene where it uprooted is one dramatic eye-popping sight. More pics below.


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