Call it what you will… resurrection, revitalization, renaissance or even recovery. The Montague Street retail corridor is healthier than it has been since the economic collapse of 2009… Over the past year or so, a dozen or so new businesses have gained traction, including restaurants, spas, bodegas, bakeries and clothiers. Let’s take a walk up [...]
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Montague Street Revitalization Continues With Launch Of Ruby And Jenna
As we reported a month ago, women’s apparel boutique Ruby and Jenna has opened at 130 Montague Street, above beauty salon Dashing Diva. The store made its soft opening Thursday. Both owners were present, offering an amiable, “Come back and see us, darling.” Two fun chicks. According to the store’s website, it offers “trendy, contemporary [...]
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Image Of The Day: Hiccup, Belch… Mother’s Day 2012 Post-Mortem
Montague Wine & Spirits, 78 Montague Street (Photo: Chuck Taylor)
Brooklyn Heights Cinema At 70 Henry Street To Be Razed, After All
After a push & pull tug of war throughout 2012, it appears the beloved Brooklyn Heights Cinema building at 70 Henry Street is about to meet the wrecking all, after all. But there’s hope: Plans call for a movie theater on the ground level. BHB Top 10 2011 honoree and Cinema owner Ken Lowy—who wrote [...]
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SAT Scores For 200 Students Nixed at Brooklyn Heights’ Packer Institute
Nearly 200 students who took the SAT collegiate entrance exam at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights on May 5 had their scores invalidated by the administrator of the test, according to an article in The New York Times. The reason: Some students were seated too closely together. The decision outraged school administrators, students and [...]
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SAT Scores For 200 Students Nixed at Brooklyn Heights’ Packer Institute
Nearly 200 students who took the SAT collegiate entrance exam at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights on May 5 had their scores invalidated by the administrator of the test, according to an article in The New York Times. The reason: Some students were seated too closely together. The decision outraged school administrators, students and [...]
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Temporary ‘Photoville’ Village Coming To BBP Pier 3 This Summer
Brooklyn-based art cooperative United Photo Industries is creating a temporary “photographic village” out of 30 shipping containers in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 3 Uplands for nine days this summer, with the promise that “central to the Village will be a communal beer & food garden serving chilled brews and artisanal snacks.” Gothamist reports that “Photoville” [...]
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Open Thread: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Open Thread Wednesday has arrived again! What’s on your mind, BHB compatriots? Comment away.
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Stabbing At Brooklyn Heights Library
EMS has transported a 52-year-old man to Bellevue Hospital after an apparent stabbing that occurred at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Cadman Plaza West Tuesday evening. The victim was reportedly stabbed in the neck and abdomen, but the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. A suspect was taken into [...]
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30 Henry Street Reaps $500K Above Asking Price
DUMBO-based developer Fortis Manor, which purchased the homely one-story Brooklyn Eagle Building at 30 Henry Street & Middagh in November 2011, paid $3.5 million for the property, according to a post today on Brownstoner. Broker Massey Knakal confirmed the figure, which is $500K over its asking price of $3 million. That comes out to a [...]
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June 14: Annual Montague Street District Mgmt Assn Meeting
The 15th-annual meeting of the Montague Street District Management Assn., part of the Montague Street Business Improvement District, will convene Thursday June 14, 4-6 p.m., on the second floor of Eamonn Doran’s at 174 Montague Street. Addressing the group will be keynoter Seth Pinsky, President of the NYC Economic Development Corp., and guest speaker Tucker [...]
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Quote Of The Day: 1966 Heights Was ‘Brought Back From Slum Death By Influx’ Of Gays
Writer and theologian William R. Wineke, a columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal and an ordained clergyman of the United Church of Christ, expresses his views on same-sex marriage in an opinion piece for WISC-TV Madison, Wisconsin’s news website Channel3000.com. We’re neither supporting or dissuading the author’s perspective here, but highlighting his reflections on Brooklyn [...]
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‘Real Deal’ Profiles Heights’ Resident & Highbrow Broker Elizabeth Stribling
Elizabeth Stribling, founder of Stribling & Associates real-estate brokerage, made headlines in 2008 when she relocated from the Upper East Side’s East 84th Street to Brooklyn Heights, in a record-setting $6.6 million 12th-floor 3,442SF pad at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. This month, she is profiled in The Real Deal in a story titled “Stribling: The [...]
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What Say You? Montague Street Biz Improvement District Survey
The Montague Street Business Improvement District is calling on all Brooklyn Heights Blog readers and area residents to participate in a survey to collect info on what folks think about programs & services in the nabe’s primary retail destination, as it strategizes future goals. Four survey respondents will be randomly selected by BID to receive [...]
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SOLD! Historic Bossert: Plan In Place To Convert Back To Hotel
After revealing last week that Brooklyn Heights’ historic Bossert Hotel was returning to its roots as a hotel, Brownstoner reports today that city filings offer a confirmed buyer for the Jehovah’s Witnesses property. David Bistricer has plans to turn the structure into a 302-unit “Hotels, Dormitories,” in DOB-speak. Meanwhile, according to the filings, the architect [...]
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NYC Bike Share Program Includes Multiple Locations Across Heights, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Downtown
New York City’s Bike Share Program has announced its citywide locations that include Brooklyn’s portion of 600 city bike share stations, with multiple locations around Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Bridge Park and nearby Downtown Brooklyn. The initiative is sponsored by the city Department of Transportation with Alta Bicycle Share. DOT released a draft map of the [...]
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Century 21 Department Store Commits To Fulton Mall: Opening In 2015
Following Downtown Brooklyn’s gentrification with the recent arrival or soon-to-open Shake Shack, Gap, Panera Bread, H&M and T.J. Maxx along Fulton Mall, the latest retailer committing to the rapidly expanding shopping destination is Century 21 Department Store. The Wall Street Journal reports that the high-end label discount retailer has signed a deal to open a [...]
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Creativity has spilled forth from the classrooms of P.S. 8 and found its way onto the walls of the Urban Folk Art Gallery, thanks to the “How’s the Weather?” exhibition that features dozens of landscape paintings and drawings by first-grade students from the Brooklyn Heights elementary school. The group show marks the end of a… FULL STORY
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