From the Pierrepont Playground at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade: “Your nanny finished one red bull, popped a top on the other and proceeded to lose her patience or rather continued to lose her patience with your little girl all dressed in pink. One twin or close in age child was outside of the double stroller […]

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We often see cars stopped in the bike lane on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, but yesterday we found three vans from a local church parked in the famous lime green bike lanes (which have, thankfully, faded a bit with time and the weather). They were not double-parked or stopped. They were very parked near […]

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Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights[Photo courtesy of ystrickler/flickr]

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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a special GL friend]

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Well, after “The Brownstoner” reported that a Goldman Sachs exec was buying in Brooklyn Heights, “the Brooklyn bloggers are up in arms.” In fact, “All we can say is that it’s a good thing these people don’t know that one third of the permanent DealBreaker staff moved to Brooklyn Heights last March. They’d probably be […]

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Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights[Photo courtesy of a special GL Correspondent]

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A special GL correspondent who has been responsible for many of the holiday images we’ve been sharing recently has supplied us with a lovely set of photos of wreaths around Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights. They make for a great little slide show, which is embedded below.

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Yup, it’s Ricky’s on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights.

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A meeting dealing with the (possibly stalled) Brooklyn Bridge Park that was previously postponed has been rescheduled. The meeting is being held to get input on programming plans for the park, including whether there should be user fees and charges. The press release says in part: In addition to a general statement of goals and […]

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So, maybe it was a tad early, but there were Danish Christmas celebrations at two churches in Brooklyn Heights this weekend. “The scene was very wholesome, and could have been taking place in Duluth, Minnesota. Long tables with red paper tablecloths filled with families eating Danish delicacies. Said delicacies were served at another long table […]

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Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn

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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

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There is concern in Brooklyn Heights about a significant increase in assaults. Assault has gone up 31 percent in the last two year, reaching 150 this year. The good news is that assaults are down 82.5 percent from 14 years ago and robberies are down 60.5 percent.–Sun

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A public meeting that was supposed to be held tomorrow (10/30) to discuss programming plans for a future Brooklyn Bridge Park has been canceled. It is being rescheduled for November 26. The meeting is part of an effort to develop a strategic plan for the controversial park, which has been plagued by objections to the […]

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A few vids from the YouTube of and from Brooklyn Heights, including one of Richard Thompson and David Byrne performing Psycho Killer at St. Ann’s in 1992.

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