• More Details: Cranberry Street Fair This Saturday

    More details have come our way for the 2012 Cranberry Street Fair this Saturday, October 13, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., from Hicks to Willow streets: While Eric Loffsfold and Bruce Edward play cool jazz throughout the day, take part in games and contests (count the cranberries and guess the weight of the pumpkin). Little […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 9, 2012
  • Barclay’s Center is Just the Beginning

    Ongoing concerns about Barclays Center’s overall impact on surrounding borough neighborhoods—including Brooklyn Heights—could rise from a low roar to a full-on battle cry, given the mammoth long-term plan that developer Bruce Ratner has in mind for the area. Located at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, Barclays is merely the first part to be […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 9, 2012
  • Armani Exchange Commits To Downtown Fulton Mall’s City Point

    THe latest tenant to join Downtown Brooklyn’s gargantuan City Point mixed-use project along Fulton Street Mall is A/X Armani Exchange. Brownstoner reports that Acadia Realty Trust and developer Washington Square Partners brokered the deal for the designer clothing retailer. It will open in November at Fulton and Albee Square, followed by the previously announced Century […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 9, 2012
  • St. Ann’s & The Holy Trinity Hosts ‘Spirits Of Heights’ Restoration Gala

    A celebration of “neighborhood greats” will take place Friday, October 19, 2012, from 6-9:30 p.m., at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street. Featured at the “Spirits of Brooklyn Heights” gala are composer/lyricist Robert Lopez (“The Book of Mormon,” “Avenue Q”) and Harry Chapin’s daughter, urban/folk/soul singer Jen Chapin, who will perform […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 9, 2012
  • BHB Reader Claims: Car Vandals Hit Remsen Street

    And we thought it was just us. A few weeks ago some thug stole our hubcaps from our car parked on Columbia Heights. Add that to the random cars we’ve seen on blocks around the area and this reader dispatch to what appears to be a War on Cars in Brooklyn Heights: Remsen Street tires […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 8, 2012
  • Italian Zombie Revival for BHB’s Claude Scales

    BHB legend has it that our own Claude Scales once “starred” in a Zombie flick. Okay, it’s not really a secret, but now an Italian movie fan is giving the film a big thumbs up. Or maybe it’s really a big che diavolo è che. Watch the full clip after the jump. Self Absorbed Boomer: […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

    October 8, 2012