Reminder: Tonight, Monday, October 1, at 6:45, Council Member Stephen Levin hosts a free screening of “Gasland”—Josh Fox’s documentary about the Halliburton-developed drilling technology known as “fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing—at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street. The movie is also airing on HBO throughout 2012. More info: “When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to […]
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High-end residential brokerage Stribling & Associates is opening its first office in Brooklyn—just a few blocks from the newly opened Barclays Center. The Wall Street Journal reports that the firm is ramping up its activity in the borough with a 3,500sf office at 384 Atlantic Avenue, which will house up to 50 brokers. “Brooklyn is […]
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Cobble Hill Blog reader Ericka delivers this tip: “I passed by the restaurant that has been under construction (for years) on the corner of Henry and Baltic. I peaked inside and spoke to one of the workers. Inside was very quaint and nearly completed. They were just doing the wiring the computer system. The worker […]
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The annual Cranberry Street Fair will take place Saturday, October 13th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. along Cranberry from Willow to Hicks streets. Volunteer Beth M. Pacheco shares with BHB, “In keeping with our traditions, there will be live jazz, Manhattan Tribal, belly dancers who perform and teach their moves and rhythms, the ever […]
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Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowry tells BHB that their lease has been extended through the end of the year. Its landlord had previously extended the lease through the end of this month. A new building – which will reportedly include a new BH Cinema – is planned at 70 Henry Street. Lowy has said […]
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If you thought Best Burger in Brooklyn Heights was a tough choice, we continue the Brooklyn Heights Blog’s Best Of The Heights Open Thread with a category that I, for one, find next to impossible—thanks to an embarrassment of neighborhood riches… What do you regard as the Most Beautiful Building in the Heights? Church, residential, […]
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Back in May, we wrote about Montague Street’s “resurrection, revitalization, renaissance or recovery,” pointing to the fact that the retail corridor is healthier than it’s been in three-plus years, with a dozen new businesses opening their doors in the past year or so. In all, Montague has seen the coming of: Custom House, Dellarocco’s on […]
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One of the first posts we did on BHB back in 2006 was a photo of a banged up car with the words “It’s Art if You Want It to Be” spray painted on its side. Mrs. Fink snapped this shot of another “art project” over the weekend on Pineapple Street and it made us […]
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The streets of Dumbo were commandeered this past weekend by everyone from fire-wielding welders to a five-year-old puppet master,…
October 1, 2012Two weekends ago, as I was walking between Piers 5 and 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, I saw the refrigerated container ship Duncan Island, of the Ecuadorian Line, departing from the nearby Red Hook container port (despite earlier predictions, it has…
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