Last week, it was reported that P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights is getting an “F” on the city’s school report card. School Principal Seth Phillips has sent a letter to parents: “I would be lying to you if I said that this grade does not hurt, but I also strongly believe that this grade does [...]

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There should be plenty of reaction to the news that PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights, a very popular school with local parents, has gotten an “F” in the city’s school grading system. “This year, at a July 29 news conference announcing plans for an annex to accommodate the flood of students wanting to attend P.S. [...]

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A Brooklyn Heights reader wrote us this week about concern that Joralemon Street was about to lose the last of its beloved cobblestones, but it turns to have been a somewhat false alarm. The original email noted that there is no parking this weekend and that answers have not been forthcoming from the city. He [...]

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Don’t look now, but the landmark Bossert Hotel on Montague Street has sold for $92 million. That’s not the interesting part, however. The hotel, which was called Brooklyn’s Waldorf Astoria, is owned by the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) and has been on the market since early this year. The fascinating part is that the buyer [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool]
Here’s a gorgeous shot of Brooklyn Heights via the HDR technique in Photoshop that is designed to combine exposures and create some really dramatic looking pictures.

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“I am so freaked out by the Brooklyn Heights raccoon!! A few weeks ago he was sitting on my deck Willow and Cranberry - doors were closed and he was watching my sweet little doggie eat his treat. I have had nitemares ever since! What can we do??!!!”–Bklink: Brooklyn Heights Raccoon

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[Photo courtesy 66 Square Feet]
These are Easter Lillies growing on the grounds of a Brooklyn Heights church. 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen, who contributed the photo, explains: “These lilies (Lilium formosanum or Formosa Lilies [native to Taiwan, ex Formosa, blablabla], usually known in the States as Easter lilies) are growing in the grounds of [...]

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A reader reports: “I’m having dinner this evening al fresco at Tutt Café, and there’s a huge cat crossing the street. But it’s not a cat, it’s clearly a raccoon walking on the west side of Hicks Street, crossing Middagh and heading downhill towards Poplar. I got a good look at it. Stripe [...]

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[Photo courtesy of 66squarefeet; click to expand]
Here’s a killer sunset from the Brooklyn Promenade sent to us by the blogger who does 66 Square Feet.

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The owner of a fruit cart who drew the ire of the Brooklyn Heights Association has won. “It looks like the fruit and vegetable cart on the historic Brooklyn Heights streetcorner is here to stay, even after the Brooklyn Heights Association filed a complaint with the city. ‘I’m going to be here forever,’ one of [...]

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The Times take a look at the simmer issue of the St. Ann’s Schools objection to a Federal probation office. “The school, St. Ann’s, has been educating the best of Brooklyn (and other boroughs) for four decades. The school, whose 1,080 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade are spread over six buildings…Parents who pay St. [...]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool]
GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan calls this image “Keepin the Riff Raff In.” This shot of the sunset over Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Fence and razor wire works nicely.

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[Photo courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool]
This view of Downtown as it appears now that many of the warehouses on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront are gone, comes courtesy of Sail Brooklyn in our GL Flickr Pool. Looks a lot different than it used to, yes?

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This gorgeous image from the Brooklyn Promenade comes from Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch. We love the way the light on one of the remain structures on the land that will be Brooklyn Bridge Park looks compared to the Financial District beyond.

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“Why are things moving so slowly at Love Lane Mews? Building permits were approved earlier this month, a couple of weeks after we reported that Sterling Equities had taken a $10 million buy-out from its partner Zucker Group. But a ride down College Place yesterday revealed a handful of workers who seemed to be dealing [...]

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By most accounts (and photos), the first Summer Space event on Montague Street was thinly attended. It did happen over the July 4 weekend on a fairly unpleasant day, which probably accounts for some of the small crowd. The sponsors are trying to spin the event–which we actually think is a great idea–as a success. [...]

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The weekly (for summer) Montague Street pedestrian plaza experiment debuted yesterday and at 3PM the crowds were…well, there wasn’t a crowd. There was a fairly empty street. Maybe it was the weather or that it was July 4 weekend or already late in the afternoon.–Brooklyn Heights Blog

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/flickr]
This is Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights courtesy of a photo dropped into the GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr. It’s an HDR shot, which for those who don’t know Photoshop, is a technique that combines photos to create effects like this one.

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[Photo courtesy of Karyn Bosnak/GL Flickr Pool]
This gorgeous shot is a tail end of a sunset a few days ago as seen from the Brooklyn Promenade. We love the colors, the semi-demolished warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park in the foreground and the way that other borough whose name starts with an “M” looks. It comes [...]

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Like “unsinkable,” fireproof is likely a word that should be used with trepidation. So it was with the St. George Hotel, once a fine hotel in Brooklyn Heights, that back at the turn of the century was said to be “absolutely fire-proof.” Of course, in 1995, the St. George suffered one of the bigger [...]

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Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls were turned on early this morning. Here are some views of the one under the Brooklyn Bridge, which we checked out from Fulton Ferry Landing.

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The beloved lobster sign of Armando’s Restaurant on Montague Street only came down last week, but the new sign for the Spicy Pickle chain restaurant is already up. “The new sign appears to be the same size, shape and dimension of the old Lobster with a bolder color scheme.”–Brooklyn Heights Blog

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[Image courtesy of heyheyamy/flickr]
The Brooklyn waterfront where Brooklyn Bridge Park is intended to rise is changing very, very rapidly. This photo was dropped into the Gowanus Lounge Photo pool by heyheyamy and shows the site from the Brooklyn Bridge. The warehouses in the distance are still standing, but demolition is underway there too, and they [...]

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Rather than being universally embraced, Brooklyn Bridge Park has sparked deep controversy in some quarters in Brooklyn, primarily because high rise condo development will be used to finance the park. The Sierra Club, which opposes the way the park is being developed, is sponsoring a presentation called “The Selling of Brooklyn Bridge Park” on Friday, [...]

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This is the tower that has gone up on the waterfront beneath Brooklyn Heights between Piers 4 and 5 as seen from street level. In July, the water will be turned on and it will run from 7AM-10PM every day as part of Olafur Eliasson’s “Waterfalls” project. This tower is 120 feet tall and it’s [...]

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