Photo courtesy Brooklyn Eagle
A city probation officer fired a shot during a scuffle with a suspected car thief who was armed with a 2-by-4 in downtown Brooklyn … Police said two probation officers – a man and a woman – spotted the would-be thief outside of 14 Boerum Place near Adams St. outside the Brooklyn Civic Center. The suspect was trying to break into a light blue BMW that had Probation Department parking placard inside.
The would-be thief was not shot, but he was arrested. The Brooklyn Eagle also has the story here.
Tomorrow, February 2nd, City Council Member Stephen Levin will be holding the first meeting of the Boerum Hill Traffic Task Force. The meeting will take place at Community Board 6 (250 Baltic Street at Court Street) at 6:30pm. If you plan on attending, RSVP to Hope Reichbach at 718-875-5200 or hreichbach@council.nyc.gov.
Due to today’s snow, the planned changes to F & G train service this weekend have been canceled. The changes will instead start next Friday, January 14th. That means the Smith-9th St. stop will remain open.
Curbed reports that 350 Baltic Street, a townhouse re-molded by a “a family of aritsts” is on the market: Continue Reading →
On Friday, December 17th from 7-9pm, Boerum Hill’s Hope Veterinary Clinic (390 Atlantic Avenue at Bond St.) will host a holiday celebration for pets and owners. Photographer Jillian London will be on hand for holiday pet portraits (with or without Santa) for $10. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Infinite Hope Pet Adoption. There will also be free wine and hot apple cider.
The event is part of the Shop & Dine Late Nights promotion happening along Atlantic Avenue this month. For more information on Hope Veterinary Clinic, visit their web site.
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Boreum Hill delicatessen Mile End is offering customers holiday specials on their shipped-from-Montreal bagels. Regular pricing is $25 for the first dozen and $15 for each additional dozen. During the holiday season, bagels will be available at $36 for two dozen, $60 for four dozen and $85 for six dozen.
All gift orders will be shipped with a customizable holiday greeting, directions for freezing and a history of Montreal bagels. Or if you’d prefer to pick them up in person, use the promo code GO HABS GO and get a third dozen free when ordering two for pick up on December 10th or 17th. The promotion is in part a thank you to customers on Mile End’s first anniversary.
Keep your ears open tomorrow night and you just might hear caroling on the streets of Cobble Hill. Alumni members of The Trinity Pipes from Trinity College will be singing acappella Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood and surrounding areas. They will make stops on streets from Carroll to Kane between Clinton and Hoyt, with some stops in some bars on Smith St. to warm up. The group will likely be out from 8:30 to 10pm or so.
The Brooklyn Eagle writes about the effort to downzone Boerum Hill to limit building heights to 50 feet:
Brooklyn Eagle: Now it is Boerum’s Hill turn. In an e-mail to his neighbors, Boerum Hill Association President Howard Kolins said that the association’s “proposal to downzone our neighborhood to R6B [maximum height of 50 feet with a setback] is moving forward so that future development remains consistent with today’s low-density character of largely three- and four-story brownstones.”
Kolins explained that the Boerum Hill “effort began when much of Carroll Gardens was rezoned R6B . . . and we realized that Boerum Hill was the last brownstone area that was not more fully protected.” The Carroll Gardens enterprise “set a fire under us,” Kolins told this newspaper.
Dwight Smith, a Boerum Hill Association (BHA) vice president, took the leadership role, and after Community Board 2 gave its blessing, the BHA approached the Department of City Planning.
Brownstoner reports that an Atlantic Ave. Business Improvement District (BID) is gaining steam and could become a reality in July 2011.
After a couple of years of consensus-building, the effort has started to make some very concrete progress in the form of public support from Community Boards 2 and 6 recently… Once established, the BID would cover all properties fronting Atlantic Avenue from the BQE to 4th Avenue and one block north and south on all side streets within the district. (Properties from Court Street to Smith Street on the north side are excluded—they’re in the Court-Livingston-Schermehorn BID.)
According to the Atlantic Ave. BID web site, the organization would provide
marketing and promotion services to bring additional foot traffic to the Avenue, beautification and streetscape improvements, sanitation and improved advocacy work.
The BID committee next has a tentative meeting with the City Planning Commission on December 1st.
via Brownstowner
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