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Brooklyn Bridge Park Looking For The Most Fetching BK Pooch

Homer Fink — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:03:39 +0000

Run! Catch! Post! Brooklyn Bridge Park is accepting submissions for its “Cutest Dog at the Dog Run” contest, for those who bring their pooches to the BBP dog runs at Main Street and/or Pier 6. One winner at each location will receive a $50 gift certificate to Wag Club.

To enter, submit a jpeg pic of your pup playing at either of the Brooklyn Bridge Park dog runs by Tuesday, January 22 (info@brooklynbridgepark.org with the subject “Cutest Dog at the Dog Run”). Include dog’s name and age in the email, as well as which dog run. Please, one submission per dog, per owner. All entries will be posted on BBP’s Facebook page, and winners will be announced February 5, 2013.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/53628

A Post-Sandy Stroll Around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Claude Scales — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:18:54 +0000

This morning I resumed my routine of taking a brisk walk along the Promenade, down Squibb Hill, around Pier 1, and back. I was anxious to see how this part of Brooklyn Bridge Park had weathered the hurricane. On the way in, I passed this blaze of fall foliage (click on image to enlarge). More photos and text after the jump.

Looking north along the riverside esplanade toward the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

A single, battered Rosa rugosa clings to its bush, surrounded by rose hips.

Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street shows its Bernini drapery in the morning sunlight. A Machine, part of Oscar Tuazon’s “People” series of sculptures, is in the foreground.

The Brooklyn Bridge, seen through the trees.

Looking south along the Esplanade; the skeleton of the shed on Pier 2 is in the background.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/51203

Halloween Decorations in Brooklyn Heights

Claude Scales — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:55:38 +0000

After the storm, some Heights residents were quick to put up their Halloween decorations. Part of the elaborate display at 273 Hicks Street, near the corner of Joralemon, is shown in the photo above (click on image to enlarge). More photos after the jump.

140 Willow Street.

34 Garden Place.

69 Joralemon Street.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/50862

Image Of The Day: Burgers & Franks Along Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall

Homer Fink — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:17:04 +0000

This Hamburger/Frankfurter joint in Downtown Brooklyn along Fulton Mall—just across from the burgeoning City Point mixed-use project—continues to do stellar business, but as the neighborhood continues to gentrify by the week, will it soon be a memory of bygone times? Digitally enhanced a la 1960s, taken October 2012. (Photo: Chuck Taylor)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/49730

Dogs on a Bench, a Bird in Hand

Claude Scales — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:17:58 +0000

Four four legged friends enjoy the sunshine and each others’ company on a bench in front of the Granite Prospect on Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. On the right is Wellington, named best tail wagger at this year’s Brooklyn Heights Association Dog Show. Next to him, in pink harness, is neighbor and occasional walking companion Sadie. We don’t know the names of the two at the left, who seem to be becoming very good friends. Perhaps someone can help. (Click on image to enlarge.) Another photo after the jump.

Tweety the pigeon, found as a baby in a trash can, rests contented in the hands of rescuer Helen after receiving her blessing at Grace Church on Sunday evening.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/49000

First Hints of Fall Foliage on Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Claude Scales — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:59:51 +0000

This afternoon your correspondent took a walk down to Pier 1, Brooklyn Heights Park, and was greeted by some scenes of early fall. Sumac leaves were turning red and yellow (photo). More photos and text after the jump.

This scene is looking north from near the park entrance at the foot of Doughty Street, toward the Manhattan Bridge (we’re looking under the Brooklyn Bridge).

The day closed with another gorgeous Brooklyn Heights sunset, seen from the Promenade.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/48940

Take A Look At Me Then: Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street, 1909/1940s

Homer Fink — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:37:56 +0000

Above, “Bird’s Eye View Of Fulton Street,” December 1909. Below, “Fulton Street, the heart of Brooklyn’s shopping district,” 1940s.
(Postcards: Cardcow.com)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/47187

Summer Sunday Sunset Serenade

Homer Fink — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:00:33 +0000

Taken from the rooftop of my Brooklyn Heights building overlooking the East River/Hudson River interpass, Sunday, August 26, just before 8 p.m. No digital enhancing, just Mother Nature blessing the neighborhood.
(Photo: Chuck Taylor, Nikon D5000)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46394

Photo Of The Day: Court Street Subway Station @ Montague Street

Homer Fink — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:44:29 +0000

From The Heidelberger Papers America blog:

“One of the few well preserved of classic New York City transit minutiae. Taken at the Montague Street entrance of the Court Street subway station.”
(Photo: Matt Heidelberger)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46060

More Morning, and Some Evening, Walk Pix

Claude Scales — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:27:16 +0000

Your correspondent had just walked out the door Saturday morning when he spotted these late summer blossoms in the garden outside his building (corner of Montague and Pierrepont Place). More photos and text after the jump.

Wasp gathering nectar, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Double-crested cormorant drying its wings on a piling, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Hot pink blossoms, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Spartina grass, salt marsh, south edge of Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Tour boat Half Moon passing close to Pier 1 esplanade; Brooklyn Bridge in background.

Large flower beside pond, northeast corner of Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

South Street Seaport Museum’s schooner Pioneer, seen from Brooklyn Heights Promenade; Governors Island in background.

Friday evening: lower Manhattan seen from Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. Sunset reflected from windows of One Liberty Plaza.

Sunset reflected from Empire State Building, seen through Brooklyn Bridge from Pier 1 esplanade, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/45502

Brooklyn Heights Sunset Redux

Claude Scales — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:57:51 +0000

In a comment to Homer’s sixth birthday post, I noted that my association with BHB began when he reposted a sunset photo from my blog, Self-Absorbed Boomer. Tonight’s was, I think, even more picturesque.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/45210

Some Scenes From a Pier One Walk

Claude Scales — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:30:40 +0000

On Friday morning I took a quick turn around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, before heading to work. As I was lining up a shot of Mark di Suvero’s Yoga, a small branch with some dry leaves fell in front of me. I didn’t notice it until I downloaded the photo; it’s at the right side of the picture (click on it to enlarge). More photos and text after the jump.
Rounding a corner of a path, I startled some sparrows. They flew up, then alighted on a fence.
These are rose hips from Rosa rugosa, near the Granite Prospect, where Patti Smith will read and sign books this Monday evening, August 6, at 7:00.
Sailing up the East River, a sloop approaches the Manhattan Bridge.
Worker on a cable of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Flowers by the pond near the pier’s northeast corner.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/45153

Image Of The Day: Halloween In July?

Homer Fink — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:39:59 +0000

Forget Christmas in July. The folks at Verizon Wireless on Montague Street—apparently wanting to insure no passersby ended up meeting the Grim Reaper in the netherworld below the sidewalk—placed this non-intimidating scarecrow beside the ~~candy corn~~ safety cone… making hay out of potential hell. (Photo: Chuck Taylor)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/44815

Heights History: A Collective Of Awesome Promenade Construction Pics

Homer Fink — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:00:56 +0000

Most of us Brooklyn Heights denizens have seen dozens of pics of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in its early days, but there are actually a couple here that were new to a guy who loves to scour the webbie for Heights history. How about you? Via Gothamist here.

Here’s the text that accompanies the Gothamist slideshow:

The idea of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade had been bounced around since Hezekiah Pierrepont proposed it in 1827 (decades later, in 1864, Abraham Lincoln declared, “There may be finer views than this in the world, but I don’t believe it.”). The idea didn’t happen in Pierrepont’s lifetime, but he “lived and died in the belief and desire, that the Heights some day be made a public promenade.” Over 100 years later, enter Robert Moses.
Moses originally proposed that the BQE go directly through Brooklyn Heights, but was talked down from this crazy idea by the powerful residents of the neighborhood. The idea for the design with the promenade on top was actually proposed by one such resident “whose private garden would be destroyed by the arterial highway”—he suggested that the BQE be two levels, and have a “cover” on top protecting the gardens from smog and noise. The “cover” became the promenade, and the space was dedicated on October 7th, 1950, when Moses announced: “I don’t know of anything quite like this in any city in the world.”

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/44319

Brooklyn Heights Promenade Saturday Sunset Serenade

Homer Fink — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:56:51 +0000

As the sun set westward, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade boasted a full house of spectators, taking in the beauty of a perfect summer day. More below the jump. (Photos: Chuck Taylor)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/42928

Photo Of The Day: Brooklyn Man ‘Stalked By Stork, I Want Work,’ 1937

Homer Fink — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:46:36 +0000

Times haven’t changed but so much between 1937 and 2012. Some 75 years ago, the U.S. was enduring a marked recession that lasted 13 months and catapulted unemployment from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in 1938. Thankfully, in 2012, the national unemployment rate isn’t quite as dire—but it remains stagnant for a fifth dismal year. On Friday June 15, the Labor Department reported that unemployment in May 2012 rose to 8.2% from 8.1% in April, the first increase in a year. In New York City, the May rate upticked from 9.5% to 9.7%.

That makes this vintage photograph from April 1937 all the more relevant. The 28-year-old unemployed Brooklyn resident is showing great ambition wearing a sandwich sign around his neck, proclaiming he’s “Stalked by Stork.” That, of course, means a baby is on the way. He’s looking for work in advertising, sales promotion, contract publicity and the like.

After digging down deep into the Internet, I found “A Woman’s New York” column written by Alice Hughes on April 13, 1937. She reports:

New York’s sidewalks are filled with ladies and gentlemen carrying signs. They may advertise a cheap beauty parlor or they may announce that the bearer, an American citizen, spent 10 months in a German prison and is very mad about it. But I met my favorite the other day. A young man was wearing a ‘sandwich’ which read, in part, ‘Stalked by Stork. I want work now!’ The gallant young man carried his sign and (walked) out of my life, but I certainly hope he got a job, don’t you? That ‘Stalked By Stork’ is a punch line if ever there was one.’

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/42520

Image Of The Day: Rooftop Retreat

Homer Fink — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:30:36 +0000

While the world at large shares in the historic vistas of Brooklyn Heights from ground level, there’s an entire different viewpoint from the rooftops of our neighborhood residential buildings… offering a far-reaching panorama across the borough and beyond that is ours alone. This pic looks down upon the modest but still heavenly roof at 1 Montague Terrace (where poet W.H. Auden lived in 1939-1940).

(Top photo: Chuck Taylor/Bottom: lumierefl via Flickr)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/42009

How Sweet It Is: There’s Simply No Better Place For Wedding Portraits

Homer Fink — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:10:07 +0000

Any given day, one can see blissed-out couples posing for their formal wedding portraits along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and the shore along the DUMBO side of Brooklyn Bridge Park. We came across the “Mille Fiori Favorati” blog in our daily web sweep for all things BH, and thought these were particularly endearing pics.

Blog author Pat, a life-long New Yorker and Brooklyn resident, writes, “So where does a girl and a guy who were born in Brooklyn, N.Y., go to have wedding portraits taken? Of course, under the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn Bridge Park. My daughter and son-in-law wanted to have this iconic landmark as part of their wedding shots, even though they now call the state of Colorado home.” The photos were taken May 30.

See more sweet images below.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/41566

Heights History: 1952, Promenade Open, BQE Still Under Construction

Homer Fink — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:01:35 +0000

Here is a 1952 view of the incomplete Brooklyn Queens Expressway, with people on the newly opened Brooklyn Heights Promenade over the new highway. The BQE just comes to an end at the lower right corner, with the Brooklyn Bridge far in the distance.

See original full-size photo on Flickr here.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/41256

Borough Hall: You Got The Look!

Homer Fink — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:55:46 +0000

Brooklyn’s handsome Borough Hall is all decked out for the Memorial Day holiday, with flags unfurled and flowers surrounding the fountain in full bloom. Ooh, la la!

(Photos: Chuck Taylor/iPhone)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/41409

A View To Remember

weegee — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:11:28 +0000

Photo by M. Hermann/BHB

It’s one flight that even the anti-helicopter caucus could support. A handful of servicemen from Charlie Company, 1st Bn.-9th Marines got this look at Brooklyn Heights today as their MV-22 Osprey, piloted by VMM-264 (“The Black Knights”), set off for a demonstration at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island. The unit has returned from a recent deployment overseas, and is participating in Fleet Week events. (Click through to view the full-size image.)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/41391