The Cobble Hill Association will be meeting Thursday (11/13) at 7:30pm at the Long Island College Hospital Conference Rooms A and B for its fall meeting. The main focus is LICH: Hospital in Crisis (dun dun dun duuuuun) to discuss the ongoing threat of the closing of LICH. Featured guests will be State Senator-Elect Daniel [...]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of 66squarefeet]
These fallen leaves come to us from Amity Street in Cobble Hill courtesy of the camera of Marie Viljoen, who is a GL Contributor.

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GL Contributor Marie Viljoen writes about a fundraiser taking place for PS 29 in Cobble Hill: “November 18th will see a wine-lubricated raffle to raise funds for PS29 at Bocca Lupo, corner of Henry and Warren Streets. Jeff Lederman, the proprietor, is generously donating the space, great food and wine. All proceeds benefit the school. [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Stephen Lipuma]
The hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall about the future of Long Island College Hospital drew a crowd of about 200 people yesterday. Many of the participants called on Continium Health Partners, which runs the troubled hospital in Cobble Hill to devise a plan to keep the hospital from closing. There are [...]

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There are probably a lot of weird videos like this one around after Halloween. This one came to our attention via the Cobble Hill Blog, which assumed the Sasquatch in question was a Cobble Hill resident. Neighborhood pride!

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Just a friendly reminder to do you part and come out to Cobble Hill’s PS 29 schoolyard this Saturday (11/1) from 10am to 4pm to turn over your old and broken electronics. We are quite passionate about voicing the importance of properly recycling our old computers, cell phones and other electronic gadgets instead of just [...]

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Everybody that’s ever had an experience with a ginkgo tree knows they smell like crap, although some people think they smell like puke. So we’ve been amused by the ongoing discussion on the BoCoCa Parents group about the stanky sandbox in lovely Cobble Hill Park. It started with this:
Smelly Sandbox at Cobble Hill Park: [...]

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Ongoing complaints regarding the Cobble Hill Super Service has neighbors in an uproar over the fact that AAA is still referring members to their mechanics. It seems that despite many complaints to the DMV, and to Triple A, drivers allege they are still getting ripped off. As recently as October this tale of woe was [...]

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We’ve mentioned the many troubles of the future of Cobble Hill’s troubled Long Island College Hospital. Well, the threat of overall closure of the entire facility is now a big possibility. Not only will this be a huge change in the community and area in the sense of making the hospital’s land holdings available for [...]

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The GL tipster who originally sent us photos of the rather crappy conditions at the Long Island College Hospital Playground on Henry Street (yes, we understand LICH has far bigger issues than the playground, but exposing kids to hazardous conditions is a significant community issue), emailed to acknowledge that “the numerous broken items have now [...]

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Last week, we featured utility scammers working around Greenwood Heights courtesy of warning from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. We had this story and this follow up the very same day. In those cases, reps from IDT Energy were switching people from Con Ed without their consent. (We don’t have a love [...]

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Bad news, friends. Trader Joe’s had a warehouse fire that has left the frozen food section looking like a state store in East Berlin in 1988. (To younger readers, this probably doesn’t mean a lot. To the older ones here, if you ever had the pleasure of going through the wall pre-1989, you know what [...]

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Forget the city’s new CEMUSA bus shelters and street furniture. GL Correspondent JP Pagan was waiting for the B71 in Cobble Hill and found that seating had gone way upscale. He writes, “It was a nice place to sit and wait for the B71. Sadly, as I write this, someone is carrying it away…” Easy [...]

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There’s another rally/media event planned for the deeply troubled Long Island College Hospital, which seems headed in the direction of being a humongous real estate deal that could change the face of its neighborhood rather than a health care provider. To that end, Borough President Marty Markowitz is holding a press conference and rally on [...]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Marie Viljoen]
Those Brooklyn sunsets as seen from a rooftop sure are beautiful. This photo taken up high on Henry Street comes from Marie Viljoen who alway sends us very cool stuff.

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The much anticipated Brooklyn Trader Joe’s at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street has gotten signs, is being stocked and now has an opening date: September 26. The store, which is at 130 Court in the old Independence Bank building, will be open from 9AM-9PM. Except much fanfare on opening day.–NYDN

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Remember the Long Island College Hospital Playground on Henry Street that people said was filthy and that had dangerous broken equipment? The one LICH said it would take care of and for which it was said to have gotten replacement parts from Finland? Well, a reader says it’s still broken and LICH says it’s been [...]

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This isn’t normally our cup of tea, but the founder of the Brownie troop in question at a school on Henry Street in Cobble Hill was resourceful enough to email half the blogs in New York City, some of which will run her request. So why not? Here goes: “I am a parent of two [...]

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The last phase of the ongoing changeover of Alternate Side Parking regulations that started in May in Park Slope will happen in Red Hook starting on Monday, September 8, when they are suspended for several weeks. Alternate Side regs will be re-instituted in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and other areas west of Court [...]

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It’s been interesting to watch the progress of the huge alternate side parking changeover as it has progressed from Park Slope through Gowanus and now into Cobble Hill. It has not escaped our attention that the greatest commotion arose in Park Slope, where there fears and complaints about people hogging parking spaces and about the [...]

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The Cobble Hill Association and Brooklyn Greenway Initiative are sponsoring a “Cobble Hill Bike Ride” on Sunday, September 14, from 10AM-1PM. It starts at Cobble Hill Park. Participants should email name and daytime phone number to cobblehillbikeride@gmail.com.

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We’ve gotten several emails about the closure of Cafe Carciofo on Court Street at Kane, which has been a popular neighborhood spot for years. One tipster writes: “Great old restaurant on Kane & Court. Signs in the window say: ‘We will not be reopening. Family business shut down by DOH. Inspectors laughed and told [...]

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Remember when the Department of Transportation said that alternate side parking regulations might be suspended in Park Slope for much of the summer while signs were changed and the melodrama that ensued? Well, DOT is way ahead of schedule and the process has gone so smoothly in Gowanus and part of Carroll Gardens [...]

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We have no idea how this happened except that it’s from Clinton Hill and a GL reader sent this our way. It’s a perfect image for a summer Friday.

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[Photo courtesy of William Allatriste]
Public officials and community activists called on Long Island College Hospital at a rally in Cobble Hill to reconsider its decision to shut down its maternity ward and to come up with a plan to deal with its financial problems. The hospital has been closing and/or selling off buildings in Cobble [...]

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