The Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights Blogs are starting a new weekly feature to bring you the local police precincts’ crime logs every Tuesday. We’ll cover the 76th precinct in Cobble Hill (at CHB) and 84th for the Brooklyn Heights area (at BHB), and get as much info as we can from the cops abou...

Photo by Andrew Porter Borough President Marty Markowitz compared the task of evaluating the Dock Street rezoning proposal to a root canal last night at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting — yes, a root canal. Making a decision was tough, he said, but he understood that “it had t...

Our award winning live blog from the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual Meeting. 7:32pm TK Small in the house. First BHB Ten member sighting. BHB Chief Correspondent Sarah Portlock is staying away from me and Qfwfq … she’ll have a real update later… 7:38pm Tom van den Bout...

Breaking news! Armando’s — the legendary Montague Street restaurant — might reopen in the next few months in the spot most recently occupied by the shuttered Spicy Pickle. The restaurant, which was perhaps best known for its neon lobster sign, closed last March and was replaced in August w...

Sunday night I attended the premiere of TransBeMan at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO.   The cultural transformation down under the Manhattan Bridge is amazing.  DUMBO is the new SOHO.   Galapagos began in 1995 in Williamsburg at 70 North 6th Street.  It was one of my favorite bars— it ha...

The adorable carriage house at 43 Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights is certainly one of the more blogged-about properties in New York, helped by the fact the place has been on the market for, oh, a couple of years. In that time, it's changed brokers faster than one-night stands and had its price sliced ...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, United States Given that this Saturday is Valentine's Day, it's only fitting that we dedicate this week's Undiscovered New York to a closer look at some of the city's most amorous locations. At first sight New York (especially in February) can seem a vast, cold and lon...

While Two Trees is drumming up support for its Dock Street DUMBO Project by promising a middle school to the community, it’s also not renewing the lease of  the League Treatment Center school for disable children at its 30 Washington Street property.  The New York Times reports on the situat...

Melanie Hope Greenberg — 32-year Brooklyn Heights resident and a longtime author/illustrator of children’s books — is on tour, and if her fans at PS 58 are any indication, she’s a rock star. Greenberg — who was named to The BHB 10 last year — gets inspiration for her books from t...

Coyi Cafe on Avenue B [Photo Credit] 1) Soho: A tipster writes in with a curiously shilly-sounding rave review of Lusso, a new Italian-inspired eatery that has recently opened in the former Le Streghe space: “We started out with a wonderful stuffed calamari as well as a richly-prepared crostin...