We have been advised by the NYC DOT that the closure of Columbia Heights to vehicular, except for emergency, traffic between Cranberry and Middagh streets will be extended for what is likely to be ...

Brooklyn Heights Blog, dispatches from America's First Suburb. Chronicling daily news from the Brooklyn Heights Historic District in New York City.

Monday morning, September 8 through Friday evening, September 12 – late nights all week there will be no service at Court Street or at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech, as N trains will be re ...

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. ...

Pete’s Waterfront Ale House is Changing Ownership, Adding Pizza to the Menu, Longtime Staffers “Re-interviewing” for their Jobs ...

Here’s the latest in our revisiting of our Heights History series – this post originally ran on March 24, 2009. In 1974, the city received a $50,000 “City Options” grant from the National Endowment ...

The 2024 Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, drew large crowds to St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church Friday evening through Sunday evening. It also created its ...

It’s that time, for our annual list of ten people or groups of people living or working in Brooklyn Heights, who made an impact on our neighborhood, the city, the country, or the world this year. With ...

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 ...

As reported in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, investment firm Beach Point Capital won the foreclosure auction for the Hotel Bossert on Montague St., with a $120M credit bid. The last time there was any ...

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.

What's on your mind? Comment away!By Claude Scales on July 8, 2025 11:26 pm in open thread ...