You’d think it was the first day of spring after a long winter’s haul. Late Tuesday morning, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was swarming with onlookers, checking out the after-effects of Superstorm Sandy, while peering for signs of life on the other side, where Lower Manhattan remains without power for what may be days. While it […]
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Our man with cam has been out and about, surveying the damage in our neighborhood. Video after the jump.
October 30, 2012The Montague Street BID shares sanitation collection info with Brooklyn Heights’ residents & businesses: “DSNY will be on 12-hour split shifts, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday. We will be picking up refuse and recycling, but encourage citizens to put waste out Tuesday morning to prevent cans blowing in the wind. Crews will also be […]
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A walk along Montague Street from end to end around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning revealed no broken windows or fallen limbs. The worst damage is a busted lighted sign at TD Bank at the corner of Court Street. All along the corridor, newspaper boxes were tossed about like cardboard, including a couple that were outright […]
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A formidable tree limb is down along the Promenade at the Remsen Street entrance. Around Montague Street and Montague Terrace early Tuesday, other tree damage appears minimal. CBS 2 is reporting that winds reached 65 mph Monday night. Please s…
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An explosion at a Con Edison substation before 9 p.m. Monday has left much of lower Manhattan in the dark and knocked out power to about 310,000 customers. Here’s the eerie scene at 6 a.m. Tuesday, where among the only lights surrounding the Wal…
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FDNY is arriving on scene at 360 Furman St., reporting what sounds to be an electrical fire in the basement. More info to follow. UPDATE: FD monitoring an “electrical condition” as well as an oil leak in the boiler room, caused by “rising water.” More to follow. UPDATE, 11:58 P.M.: The chief has requested an […]
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We’ve received reports of downed trees all along Poplar Street from C.F.: Basically every tree behind 55 poplar lining the garden and behind the parking lot is down, one has fallen on a VW, smashed windshield in one corner. Tree from behind 55 poplar fence fell over onto hicks street partially obstructing the street. Also […]
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from the NYC Office of Emergency Management: The time to evacuate for Hurricane Sandy has passed. It is time to shelter in place. Get to a safe, indoor location. Stay away from windows and remain above the 3rd floor but below the 10th floor, if possible. Once inside: – Close and lock all windows and […]
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Late Monday afternoon, cops ribboned off entrances to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with yellow tape… which promptly blew away. By 5, two strands replaced it, imprinted with “Police Line: Do Not Cross.” That wasn’t enough to stop a fairly constant flow of folks taking a peek at the East River below (as we see in […]
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