Monday morning, July 21 through Friday evening, July 25 — the only late night service at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Manhattan bound N trains (Brooklyn bound ...

The Brooklyn Heights Association has advised us of changes coming to Montague Street. These include: New corner curb extensions at Hicks St., Henry St., and Clinton St. New mid-block curb extensions ...

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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. ...

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 ...

According to New York YIMBY developer Jonathan Landau has filed for permits to construct a 47 story mixed commercial and residential building at 205 Montague Street (see photo from Google Maps). While ...

As we noted in November of 2023, at that time equipment was in place to measure the weight of trucks traveling on the northbound, or Queens-bound, lanes of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. These are ...

As reported by the Eagle, the former Hotel Bossert (photo by C. Scales for BHB), at Montague and Hicks streets, has been bought by Somera Road Inc., described as an “opportunistic real estate and ...

This Sunday, June 1, is Dogs' Day at Open Streets Montague. The highlight of the day will be the Brooklyn Heights Association Dog Show, which will take place starting at ...

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.

The postwar brought the great era of modernism and social engineering. A nation flush with victory and wealth thought it could solve any problem and enthusiastically looked forward to, and even ...

Times haven’t changed but so much between 1937 and 2012. Some 75 years ago, the U.S. was enduring a marked recession that lasted 13 months and catapulted unemployment from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in ...