The Brooklyn Heights Garden of Eden at 180 Montague Street has already rolled out a symbol of autumn: the mighty gourd, (which, as we all know, is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae). However, summer still has another 17 days to live. The first day of fall is September 22. So what’s the rush? Photo: […]
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On August 1, the Montague Street Business Improvement District hired a new sanitation contractor, Block By Block, which BID says is a nationally recognized provider of supplemental sanitation and streetscape maintenance. Its team will be working year-round, seven days a week to keep Montague Street up to par. The company brings to the neighborhood a […]
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The Brooklyn Heights Housing Works at 122 Montague Street will host its “Best Of Fall” sales event Saturday, September 8, from noon to 8 p.m., offering the thrift’s best selection of fashion, furniture, artwork, books and accessories. The annual affair takes place at 12 of the shop’s New York locations, from August 30 through September […]
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In the aftermath of last week’s Mom vs. Wack Jobs in Brooklyn Heights debate comes evidence of another controversy brewing in the neighborhood. The issue: Dog owners who dump their pooch’s poo into someone else’s garbage. One resident of Cranberry Street has had enough and posted this quite polite and reasonable notice on the street: […]
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Fantastic fun! A tilt-shift film shot in Brooklyn by German filmmaker Joerg Daiber. Below the jump, check out the locations in Brooklyn Bridge Park (heavily featured), Downtown, DUMBO, Brooklyn’s Main Public Library, Grand Army Plaza and…
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As first tipped on BHB’s Open Thread Wednesday in late June, a new restaurant has been bubbling at 87 Atlantic Avenue, between Hicks and Henry streets in Brooklyn Heights. Now it appears that Italian eatery Table 87 is fixing to open its doors. According to Brownstoner, work permits and an application to sell wine & […]
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Following a June mandate to vacate its Downtown Brooklyn digs as the burgeoning mixed-use City Point project begins a new phase of development, urban foodie & retail oasis Dekalb Market was intending to scout out a new space for the holiday season. But it looks like we can fuhgeddaboudit. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the […]
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This dispatch just in from a BHB reader: Morning – have you received any video or photos of the fracas in front of Duane Reade at Court/Joralemon last night? It was around 6:30, right as I was walking off the train, and there was a fair crowd gathered. 4 women beating the sh*t out of […]
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One after another… The big boom continues in Downtown Brooklyn, with yet another national retailer signing on to set up digs on Fulton Mall’s 17-block stretch from Boerum Place to Flatbush Avenue. Furniture chain Raymour & Flanigan will occupy a robust 28,000 square feet on the second floor at 490 Fulton Street. As BHB readers […]
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It was on this date in 1922—some 90 years ago—that the first radio advertisement ever was broadcast on WEAF-AM New York. Clear Channel and CBS Radio must be very happy about that anniversary. So on this Open Thread Wednesday for August 29, 2012, what topics would you like to endorse? (Photo: Quartley/via Flickr BHB Photo […]
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