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Sephora May Anchor “Women’s Power Center” at Court and Joralemon
According to Lois Weiss’s “Between the Bricks” column in the New York Post, cosmetics retailer Sephora will be the anchor tenant in the retail space being developed in the Brooklyn Municipal Building...
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A Tour of Pier 5 and Unfinished Parts of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Sunday at noon I joined a group of architecture and park enthusiasts for a tour of the completed Pier 5 and the still under construction uplands of Piers 4 and 3. We were led to Pier 5 by Brooklyn...
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Kudos From BHB Reader Regarding Reno At 265 Hicks Street
This dispatch from BHB reader Andrew Porter regarding the renovation at 265 Hicks Street: The brownstone at the NE corner of Hicks and Joralemon was fully restored in 2013, with a facade that...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
There’s a lot going on this weekend. The Brooklyn Book Festival is already underway with “Bookend” events, but the main program is on Sunday, September 21, with events starting from 10:00 a.m to 6:00...
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CB2 Exec Committee to Consider Slow Zone, Joralemon Closure at Furman,...
Community Board 2’s Executive Committee will meet at the Jonas Board Room, Metcalfe Hall, Long Island University, Flatbush and DeKalb avenues this coming Monday evening, April 27, starting at 6:00...
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Waterfront History Tour Wednesday Evening, and Smorgasburg Lives on Pier 5...
The week before last, while writing my Last Minute Weekend Suggestions, I noticed that Smorgasburg had disappeared from the listing of events on the Brooklyn Bridge Park Website. This, and my having...
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Milling and Paving on Heights Streets This Coming Week
We have word from Community Board 2 and the Brooklyn Heights Association that the following Brooklyn Heights streets are scheduled for milling work this coming week:Thursday, July 23: Joralemon from...
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Paving On Columbia Heights, Joralemon and Pineapple Streets Next Week
Community Board 2 has advised us that on Wednesday, August 5 paving will be done on Columbia Heights between Cranberry and Pierrepont streets, and on Pineapple Street between Columbia Heights and...
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Montague Milled, Not Paved; Nothing Done Elsewhere
I’ll confess to having felt a bit curious when it was announced last Friday that various streets in and around Brooklyn Heights, including my home street, Montague, were to be paved the following...
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Photoville Returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park This Thursday, September 10
Photoville will return for its fourth annual display of photography at Brooklyn Bridge Park starting this Thursday, September 10 and remaining through Sunday, September 20. It will be located in the...
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Rabbi Raskin Attacked on Joralemon Street
Rabbi Aaron Raskin (photo), of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, was, as reported by the Eagle, attacked by a group of people while walking on Joralemon Street near Hicks Street at 6:18...
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Centa Promises Increased Police Presence And Vigilance At Park And In Heights
At Tuesday evening’s 84th Precinct Community Council Meeting, as expected, Deputy Inspector Sergio Centa (photo), the Precinct Commanding Officer, faced many questions about security in Brooklyn...
View ArticleSuspected Murder On Joralemon Street
Multiple news outlets are reporting that at around 9:30 Monday night, police responded to a call on Joralemon Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, where they found a 23-year-old woman unconscious. She was...
View ArticleVideo of 65 Year Old Man Assaulted on Joralemon Street July 6
(To see video, click on “Read full story” and follow the link. Also see update for an interview with the victim.) Several news media have obtained a surveillance video of a 65 year old man receiving a...
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Parking Restrictions on Joralemon and on Willow Place During Subway Repair Work
Readers of our “Subway Service Alerts” know that repair work to tunnels damaged by Hurricane Sandy has been a lengthy process, and that repairs to the tunnels that connect the 4/5, or “Lex” line, to...
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BHA Annual Meeting: P.S.8’s Phillips and Others Honored; Expert Panel Dubious...
Court hearing on Pier 6 towers has been rescheduled–see below. At Monday evening’s annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association, BHA President Patrick Killackey (photo) began by asking,...
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Security Cameras Coming Along Joralemon Street
DNA Info’s Alexandra Leon reports that about ten to twelve street-facing security cameras will be placed on residential buildings on Joralemon Street between Clinton and Furman streets this spring....
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Park Entrance from Montague?
The Eagle reports that the Montague Street Business Improvement District wants a footbridge to connect the Promenade near the foot of Montague Street (photo) to Brooklyn Bridge Park. The BID says this...
View ArticleCollapsing Scaffolding Injures Three at Court and Joralemon
The Daily News reports that scaffolding being taken down from the building at Court and Joralemon streets that houses a Starbucks and is adjacent to an entrance to the Borough Hall subway station...
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Increased Security at Brooklyn Bridge Park this Summer
The Eagle’s Mary Frost quotes Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation President Eric Landau saying that increased police presence and newly installed security cameras should prevent the sort of incidents...
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Kite Festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday
This Saturday, May 11, from noon to 3:00 p.m., weather permitting, there will be a Kite Festival at Pier 5, the soccer field pier near the foot of Joralemon Street, Brooklyn Bridge Park. This year’s...
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Thief Takes Backpack Containing $40,000 Cash from Car Parked on Joralemon
The Eagle’s Noah Goldberg reports that, on July 11, a man (surveillance photos above released by NYPD) pulled off a brazen daylight smash-and-grab, breaking a Jeep’s window and stealing a backpack...
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Willow Street Added to List of “Open Streets.”
Our ever alert and helpful friends at Brooklyn Community Board 2 have notified us that, effective now, Willow Street between Middagh and Pierrepont streets (practically its entire length) has been...
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Delivery Bikers Assaulted at Henry and Remsen
As she reported on Nextdoor, at about 7:30 yesterday (Tuesday, February 16) evening Heights resident Olivia Guerreiri observed “a group of five teenagers” who “ran up the block [Henry between Remsen...
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A Non-Resident’s View of Hunts Lane
Joey Hadden, in Insider, describes her visit to Hunts Lane in Brooklyn Heights, a short, dead end street that goes eastward from Henry Street between Joralemon and Remsen. She took lots of photos, and...
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Joralemon from Hicks to Furman Closed Tomorow Evening
As part of the City’s “Trick or Streets” program, in partnership with the Willowtown Association, tomorrow (Monday, October 31; Halloween) from 4:00 to 8:00 PM Joralemon Street between Hicks and...
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St. Francis Sells Vacant Brooklyn Heights Campus for $200 Million
We noted in May 2021 that St. Francis College was moving from its campus in Brooklyn Heights (photo) to space in a new building in downtown Brooklyn. Today The Real Deal reported that St. Francis had...
View ArticleSuspect Arrested in Joralemon Street Stabbing and Robbery
As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, police have arrested Nicolas Giraldo, 25, who is suspected of having robbed and stabbed a 55 year old man on Joralemon Street near Columbia Place at 6:33 AM on...
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Update on BQE Repair Plans
Mary Frost in The Eagle has a comprehensive report on the Department of Transportation’s virtual community meeting Thursday evening discussing plans for interim repairs to the BQE this summer. Your...
View ArticleGuess What? Another Delay For BQE Repair Work
The City Department of Transportation has advised us that the start of the interim repair work on the parts of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway below Clark Street and below Grace Court, which had been...
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