Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty” by Nina Munk
In her new book “The Idealist” Nina Munk, who followed Jeffrey Sachs as he developed what became the Millennium…
October 25, 2013-
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A Night Out At The New Long Island Restaurant
The long-shuttered Long Island Restaurant has begun a soft opening, and is serving drinks from Wednesday to Sunday. Much of the historic infrastructure has been retained, including the Art Deco bar fixtures (and the cigarette burned bar), the formica tables at the booths and a section of the original decades-old wallpaper. Despite its history as […]
October 24, 2013
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Are Those Real People Or Sock Puppets Raving On Yelp About A New Brooklyn Heights Eatery?
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a crack down on businesses hiring firms to provide fake rave Yelp reviews recently, fining some as much at $100,000. The practice is called “astroturfing” and black hat marketing firms offer the service of “sock puppet” reviewers to restaurants to boost their overall Yelp ratings. As any […]
October 24, 2013
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Mark di Suvero’s Sculpture “Yoga” Transported Out Of Brooklyn Bridge Park
It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed Mark di Suvero‘s Sculpture “Yoga” sculpture to Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 for a limited run of “about a year”. Sure, for the first few weeks many of us thought the thing was totally WHACK (as we believe is the vernacular). But over time, we grew to […]
October 22, 2013
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New Book Tells History of Plymouth Church in Antislavery Movement and Civil War
This evening there was a book launch party at Plymouth Church for Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church in the Civil War Era: a Ministry of Freedom, (History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013) a new book by church member Frank Decker, assisted by Lois Rosebrooks, Plymouth’s Director of History Ministry Services. The book tells the story of Plymouth’s role […]
October 18, 2013
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Swimming Home, A Novel” by Deborah Levy
In the summer of 1994, the Jacobs family: Joe, a well-known poet, Isabel, a war correspondent, and 14-year-old Nina,…
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Tone Deaf: City Removes Banksy’s Twin Towers Tribute From Fruit Street Sitting Area In Brooklyn Heights
While most of Brooklyn Heights is littered with graffiti from no talent taggers, the city was quick today to remove the Twin Towers tribute at the Fruit Street Sitting Area created by world famous street artist Banksy earlier this week. It had quickly become a beloved part of the neighborhood with many rushing to take […]
October 18, 2013
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DUMBO Fishes To Sleep With The Fishes OR Farewell Fish Farm (Brooklyn Snappers)
BHB reader “Lew” sent us this photo of Ben Snead’s Fish Farm installation being removed from their perch at the corner of Washington and Prospect in DUMBO. The piece was part of the DUMBO Arts Festival and described as: Large fish head sculptures including a lane snapper, a yellow tail snapper and a rock hind, […]
October 18, 2013
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Brooklyn Bugle World Premiere — SPOKE: A Short Film About Bicycles In NYC, Short Partially With Google Glass
The Brooklyn Bugle is proud to present the World Premiere of Heather Quinlan’s new short documentary about biking in NYC – SPOKE.
Some faces, such as Ben Lee an NYC sanitation worker, may be familiar to fans of Quinlan’s last film If These Knishes Could Talk.
In SPOKE, Lee comments, “My dad escaped North Korea so he wouldn’t have to ride a bike to work. And here we are in the greatest city in the world, and people want to ride their bike to work. I don’t get it.”
So how are those bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians getting along lately?
“The streets are dominated by toxic-belching death machines in a Darwinian death race,” declares bicycle advocate Bill Weinberg.
WATCH NOW AFTER THE JUMP.
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World Premiere: Heather Quinlan’s SPOKE, A Film About Biking In NYC, Filmed With Google Glass
The Brooklyn Bugle is proud to present the World Premiere of Heather Quinlan’s new short documentary about biking in NYC – SPOKE. Some faces, such as Ben Lee an NYC sanitation worker, may be familiar to fans of Quinlan’s last film If These Knishes Could Talk. In SPOKE, Lee comments, “My dad escaped North Korea […]
October 12, 2013
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