It’s time to fight back against rich and politically powerful developers, says a new coalition formed to combat what they call “the violence that real estate developers have inflicted on our skyline, parks, public areas, and cityscape.” Sixty community groups, including roughly a dozen in Brooklyn, are backing the newly-formed New Yorkers for a Human-Scale … Read More →
Roughly 3,000 people from across the tri-state area gathered in Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday to kick off the inaugural St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer. The event, which featured a 5K walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, music and games in the park, raised funds to help St. Jude Children’s Research … Read More →
Hundreds of people will gather to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan on Saturday, Sept. 19 in hopes of building community, raising funds and garnering more attention for lymphedema and lymphatic diseases. The Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) will host the 2015 5k Walk to Fight Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases, which will begin … Read More →
A Tennessee man who police say illegally climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and took a selfie while perched on a railing has been arrested. WRCB-TV reports that 21-year-old David Karnauch of Chattanooga was arrested Sunday by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant from the New York Police Department. The charge is reckless endangerment, and he is being held … Read More →
“Chop off the illegal top floor, no matter what it costs…” That is the strongly-felt opinion of opponents of the Pierhouse project at Pier 1, which partially blocks the view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. But the lawyers arguing in court Thursday used more moderate language in a fight that could … Read More →
![“The numbers that are quoted are just believing everything EDC [Economic Development Corp.] claims,” said Brooklyn Heights Association Executive Director Judy Stanton. “They are including overnight hotels, restaurant meals, theater tickets -- all that gets glommed together in addition to whatever a helicopter tour costs, added to the small amount the company that leases the heliport pays -- $4 million. That’s nothing.” The helicopter sightseeing industry got some support from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Wednesday. “Seeing New York from the ground is wonderful, but being able to see it from the air is a rich tradition,” told the Brooklyn Eagle. “So we should make sure that in our regulations that we don’t stymie the industry of tourism.” While the city should be receptive to adjusting the number of flights at night, “Hearing noise during the day is different than hearing noise late at night,” Adams said. “Part of living in a big city is you’re going to receive some type of noise during the day.” Brooklyn Heights resident Roberto Gautier, who lives above the exit ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge, says he is fed up with years of noise bombardment. Residents have been suffering ever since the summer of 2010, he said, when a waiver of the noise code was made to allow for after-hours construction on the Brooklyn Bridge. “The helipad is another part of this noise mosaic,” he told the Eagle. He feels that helicopters should be retrofitted with noise-canceling blades. “I’ve always felt it was a ridiculous motto – “The City That Never Sleeps” -- Gautier said.](http://heightspress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/helicopter-bill-3-by-mary-frost-bha-sign-b-200x180.jpg)
The incessant noise, pollution and disruption from sightseeing helicopters taking off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport on the East River – the only heliport in the city that still allows them — has become intolerable, advocates said on Thursday. Elected officials and representatives of community groups and schools rallied on the steps of City Hall … Read More →
Bill Murray is set to lead hundreds of poetry lovers and well-known poets — including inaugural poet Richard Blanco and Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang — across the Brooklyn Bridge as they read aloud NYC-centric poetry on Monday at 6:30 p.m., starting in front of the Municipal Building at One Centre Street at the base of … Read More →
World Science Festival brings stargazing, dancing robots to Brooklyn waterfront The weather couldn’t have been better at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday for a night of stargazing, talks by astronomers, NASA scientists and astronauts — and dancing robots. The event was part of the World Science Festival, a citywide science exposition. Hundreds spread blankets on … Read More →
Public gets a chance to comment on General Park Plan changes Brooklyn Bridge Park and a neighborhood advocacy group fighting two high-rise towers planned for Pier 6, near the park’s Atlantic Avenue entrance, have agreed to settle a lawsuit by going through a process that would allow modifications to the park’s General Park Plan (GPP). … Read More →