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Allow us to be blunt – anti-vaxxers are wrong, have never been right and have been following the advice of dopey celebrities and debunked “research” for far too long. This week, parents whose children are patients at the Brooklyn Heights pediatric practice of Doctors O’Connor, Pytlak and Dalton were told that families who refuse to […]

The new Eamonn’s, which replaced Taperia virtually overnight two weeks ago, has added an interesting feature — blacked out windows. What the what? Here’s what Eamonn’s with clear windows looked like: Maybe it’s the fact that we remember the bad ol’ days when a place with blacked out glass like this meant something other than […]

The owner of 70 Willow Street will be asking the LPC permission to make some changes.

The saga of 70 Henry Street continues as Tom Caruana, owner of the building, has listed it for sale this week with real estate agency Massey Knakal. As the property is currently home to the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, the Cinema’s owner, Kenn Lowy, has issued this response which has also been posted at the movie [...]

Here's the latest in our revisiting of our Heights History series - this post originally ran on March 24, 2009.

The NYC DOT announced this week that 15 neighborhoods across the city, including Brooklyn Heights, will become “slow zones” over the next two years. Speed limits in these areas will be lowered from the current 30 mph to 20 mph. Brooklyn Heights will join the group in 2016. NYC.gov: Slow zones are marked by high-visibility [...]

Proactive measures rarely make for a rousing stump speech. As a result, New York City's elected officials have an unfortunate habit of not addressing problems until they reach a crisis point. But without proactive measures, our district will continue staggering from crisis to crisis. As we've seen with our libraries, hospitals, flood preparedness, and environmental issues (e.g., Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal), ignoring simmering problems doesn't prevent them from boiling.

This dispatch from BHB contributor Teresa Genaro via Open Thread Wednesday: The huge, long-vacated space on the northeast corner of Clark and Hicks — was a pizza place for a while, was rumored to be a Tea Lounge at one point — is undergoing a complete renovation and will be the sales office for the [...]

Buzzhome has uncovered renderings for the new development planned for 172-174 Montague Street. It will replace buildings housing the now closed Eamonn’s and Hallmark store. Since it sits outside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the new structure will be 19 stories, higher than the 50 feet allowed inside the district. CPEX’s full listing is here. [...]

Take the R train to work? Get ready to shout to the heaven and say “NOOOOOO”. (Or if you’re a Star Trek TOS movie fan “KHAAAAANNNNN!”). Reports say the the Montague Street tunnel, damaged in Superstorm Sandy, will be closed for repairs for about a year: NYT: The repairs, expected to begin in August, would [...]

The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission posted photos and a document related to the 1965 landmarking of Brooklyn Heights on its Tumblr account this week. View the photos on the LPC’s Tumblr. Our neighborhood was landmarked on November 25, 1965. In 2010, Brooklyn Heights preservationist and our own Karl Junkersfeld produced this video about the road [...]

Actor/the Most Famous Man in Brooklyn Heights Paul Giamatti is rumored to be in talks to play supervillian Rhino in the next Spiderman movie according to the Hollywood Reporter:

Brooklyn Heights resident Rita Schwartz, who worked departments of Aging and Health and Hospitals during the Koch administration, remembers the colorful mayor who died early Friday morning at the age of 88. Schwartz was interviewed by NYC media outlets at yesterday's premiere of Koch the documentary by Neil Barsky.

McKim, Mead, and White's 177 Montague Street is headed for some changes according to meeting notes from Community Board 2's Land Use Committee. They approved the plan. This morning, the LPC was scheduled to review the application.

Patricia Ageheim & Tarek Debira owers since April of Chez Moi (located at the space formerly known as La Mancha) wrote BHB to reassure our readers that La Mancha’s Atlantic Antic culinary stand-bys of grilled sardines and paella will survive the change of restaurant and nationality! Writes Tarek: As far as the menu that we [...]