As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, yesterday at 3:34 pm fire broke out at the five story apartment building at 75 Pierrepont Street. It appears to have started when an air conditioner caught fire ...

If you’re among those who like to keep your tree through the full twelve days of Christmas (day twelve is this coming Tuesday, January 6) or longer, Mulchfest continues at Brooklyn Bridge Park through ...

1. A long term solution to the problem of the crumbling BQE; one that doesn’t involve continuing traffic fumes and vibrations, doesn’t require the “temporary” destruction of the Promenade, and doesn’t ...

If you’re among those who like to keep your tree through the full twelve days of Christmas (day twelve is this coming Tuesday, January 6) or longer, Mulchfest continues at Brooklyn Bridge Park through ...

We’ve been advised by NotifyNYC that tomorrow, December 31, starting at 12:59 pm, there will be a fireworks display launched from near Liberty Island. This should be visible (and audible) from ...

This weekend – late Friday evening, January 2 to early Monday morning, January 5 – there will be no service at Clark Street or at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall, as 2 and 3 train service will be ...

We recently went on a trip back in time at some of the restaurants in the North Heights. Now it’s time to start doing the same down on Montague Street. What was there before today’s eateries? What do ...

Three weeks ago Binyamin Appelbaum’s opinion piece, “I Want a City, Not a Museum”, appeared in the New York Times. Mr. Appelbaum blamed the city’s lack of affordable housing on its “preserving the ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Brooklyn Heights residents persuaded “Power Broker” Robert Moses to re-route his plans to ram the BQE through the heart of the neighborhood and to halt bulldozing ...

Neighbors: I know you enjoy learning what is happening with our community’s next generation. I’m sharing my spot in today’s Brooklyn Heights Blog with Dustin Gallivan, a 16 year-old student writer and ...

As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, after fifteen years of operating in parallel, with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation responsible for planning, building, maintaining, and operating the park, ...

Here is another article on Heights history by Robert Furman: The Low family fortune was begun by Seth Low the elder (1782-1853, A.A.’s father, who was born in 1782 in West Gloucester, Massachusetts.