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Heights Lowdown Archive

Heights Lowdown

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007

Sinking feeling in the Heights

Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Heights is full of holes — sinkholes and potholes, that is. Comment.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Delay, thy name is Duffield

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist on the latest effort to save some historic — and possibly slave-linked — houses on Duffield Street. Comment.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Wal-Mart needs a better map

Heights Lowdown: Maybe the behemouth should study Brooklyn before putting a store here. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007

Eating veg is good — but where?

Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Vegetarian Week is all well and good, but the Heights doesn’t have any vegetarian restaurants! Comments (2).

Saturday, May 12, 2007

DUMBO asks, ‘Can we talk’?

Heights Lowdown: The third part in our trilogy about the battle between a DUMBO baker and a man scorned. Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007

Dogs parade — no, really

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist dresses up her dog and joins the party on the Promenade. Comment.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Want to end war? End recruiting

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist follows some anti-war marchers through Brooklyn Heights and discovers a new approach to ending the fighting in Iraq. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007

The fungus is among us

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist stalks the less-than-elusive source of the raw meat stench in the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights. Comment.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Fire makes school building hotter

Heights Lowdown: The fire is out at St. Charles Borromeo School in Brooklyn Heights, but the building is hotter than ever — thanks to a decision by the Brooklyn Diocese to close the school and sell or lease the property. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007

World Wide Wackiness in Heights

Heights Lowdown: One of the three restaurants involved in a co-branding Web site called “the Corner of Cranberry” is already out of business. That’s a tough corner. Comment.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

A column that’s lovely as a tree

Heights Lowdown: A woman wants to save a historic tree in Brooklyn Heights — yet is meeting resistence. Comment.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

‘Sopranos’ fan waits for Tony

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist imagines Tony Soprano doing business in Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Permits a plague on Pierrepont

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist goes undercover to solve the parking mess on Pierrepont Street. Comments (3).

Saturday, Sep. 22, 2007

Food delights in the Heights

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist delights in the tastes of fall. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007

Heights cars hurt bicyclists

Heights Lowdown: The Heights is no place for a bicyclist, our columnist finds. Comment.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

New York can’t find Brooklyn

Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all? Comment.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Wal-Mart is not dead yet

Heights Lowdown: Someone is making calls to convince Downtown residents that a big box store would be good for the Fulton Mall. Comment.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

I should run for ‘higher’ office

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist ponders a career in public service. Comments (1).

Saturday, Sep. 15, 2007

The kids are, in fact, alright

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hangs with the dorm kids of Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007

Winter weather forecast? Check Water Street

Heights Lowdown: Some people read the thermometer to judge the temperature. In DUMBO, we just check to see which end of Water Street is busy. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007

Whose Downtown is it anyway?

Downtown plan: Black Facts — a Downtown Brooklyn mainstay — was the canary in the coalmine. It closed last month and Downtown will never be the same — and that’s by design, unfortunately. Comments (1).

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Can’t miss these signs in the Heights

Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007

Will dry cleaning be green?

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist finds that the answer, probably, is no. Comment.

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007

Our man walks the walk Downtown

Downtown plan: Our columnist explores the wonder of Downtown — and worries about how long it will all last. Comment.

Saturday, Sep. 29, 2007

Invasion of the film crew

Heights Lowdown: At least one woman — our columnist — is not so happy about the arrival of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007

The Euros are spending!

Heights Lowdown: No one in the Heights likes the Fulton Mall — but the tourists love it. Comment.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

How to build a neighborhood

Heights Lowdown: For a while now, DUMBO residents have been wondering why BoConcept and West Elm (both of them high-end furniture stores) ended up side by side on Front Street, while there isn’t a single pharmacy or several other vital stores in sight. Turns out, it was done on purpose. Comment.

Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007

Ricky’s opens! Where’s the porn?

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hits the back room at Ricky’s and finds that she doesn’t even blush. Comments (1).

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007

Defending the barber of the hill

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist defends a Brooklyn Heights barber under fire for his “hideous” neon sign. Comment.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Second helping on baker story

Heights Lowdown: Herve Poussot: Assaulted or assaulter? Let’s review some new evidence! Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007

Gingko stinks up Heights!

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hates the smell — but loves the taste — of those damn gingko nuts. Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007

The dough is rising all over

Heights Lowdown: Being a carbohydrate lover in Brooklyn Heights is costly — and I don’t mean having to sacrifice your size-6 jeans — thanks to new price hikes on wheat. Comments (1).

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Through Google’s looking glass

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist tries out Google’s new “Street Views” — and finds Brooklyn Heights frozen in time. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007

City deaf to Railroad’s call

Heights Lowdown: Everyone is focusing on Bruce Ratner’s deal with a slavery-linked bank, but meanwhile, the city is about to tear down homes linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Heights nannies are being watched anew

Heights Lowdown: A new art show on nannies gets our guest columnist thinking about their role in our neighborhood. Comment.

Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007

Brooklyn’s rat killer fights on

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist sets out to examine the rat problem — and finds a man who shoots the vermin with an air rifle! Comments (4).

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Nabe needs PO to be a nabe

Heights Lowdown: DUMBO is getting its own post office — sort of. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007

The Witnesses next door

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist visits with her Brooklyn Heights neighbors Comments (1).

Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007

The Heights’ stroller derby

Heights Lowdown: Why do baby strollers need to be the size of SUVs? Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007

A bagel with a smear on Clark

Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move. Comment.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Alternate side of street parking

Heights Lowdown: The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To our columnist! Exclusively! Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007

Lights! Camera! Inaction!

Heights Lowdown: DUMBO: Star-gazers hanging around DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights in hopes of seeing Will Smith destroy evil vampires were sorely disappointed on Tuesday when all they got was bright lights in their eyes and noisy helicopters in their ears. Comment.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

A tree falls in Brooklyn

Heights Lowdown: A co-op board decides to cut down a tree to save some cash. Comment.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

The 1.25-million-dollar insult?

Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers! Comment.
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