Thursday afternoon, about two hundred seniors packed the Guild Hall and adjoining North Room of Grace Church for a Thanksgiving feast provided by the Heights and Hill Community Council. On hand to say a few words and help with serving the food were State Senator Elect Daniel Squadron (shown in photo above, along with The Rev. Steven Paulikas, Assistant to the Rector of Grace, and Patrick Burns), Assemblywoman Joan Millman, District 52 Leader Jo Anne Simon, and Heights and Hill’s Judy Willig.
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Despite several gaudy paint jobs and duct-tape repairs to their sign, it appears that Dhaka has finally closed up shop. < sarcasm > Sad times for Atlantic Ave < /sarcasm >
Any bets on what’ll move in? Where can I find a decent curry in the neighborhood?
Ted & Honey‘s [264 Clinton Street] Chris Jackson is profiled in his hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: A Cafe…: Just as passionate Steelers fans still follow the career of wide receiver Antwaan Randle El, devoted Pittsburgh diners-out don’t lose interest in talented chefs just because they move to more distant kitchens. Fans of Chris Jackson were sad to see him leave Six Penn Kitchen, but he’s not forgotten — and he can be tracked down easily at his new cafe in Brooklyn, New York, the fulfillment of a long-time dream that he shared with his sister, Michelle.
“My sister called me and said the best spot in the world opened up. She called on Monday and we had to make up our minds by Friday,” recalled Jackson.
Could it be as easy to lower truck traffic on Henry Street as having a mapmaker change a color? Cobble Hill Association Prexy Jeff “Hussein” Strabone and Dave “Paco” Abraham think so now that Hagstrom has agreed to recolor and reclassify Henry Street in all its publications:
CHA Blog: Committee member Laura Herzenhorn, herself often behind an oversize vehicle for the American Museum of Natural History, pointed out that many truck drivers rely on the well-known Hagstrom Map books which identify Henry Street with a solid yellow line, properly indicating it as a through-street for regularly sized vehicles. While the Hagstrom Map does not condone trucks using car through-streets, it does falsely assume Henry Street’s width. Unlike the Carroll Gardens segment of Henry Street, the Cobble Hill corridor has an extremely narrow width, which poses an extreme danger for trucks assuming they can pass safely. Committee chairperson Dave ‘Paco’ Abraham spoke with Hagstrom’s research department and they have agreed to remove the yellow fill on Henry Street during the next map printing, expected in March of 2009.
The New York Times covers the continuing drama at LICH today with some insight on the different points of view on how to handle the facility’s financial woes:
New York Times: A Hospital’s..: Dr. Arnold L. Licht, a psychiatrist who is president of the 800-member medical staff, said the hospital’s relationship with the company, which began in 1998, had been an unhealthy one, leading services there to deteriorate, equipment to age, and prominent doctors to leave.
“I really feel that we’ve been treated almost as a classic British colony,” Dr. Licht said. “We’ve been controlled and exploited.”
But Jeff Strabone, president of the Cobble Hill Association, a neighborhood group, raised questions about the financing of the medical staff’s plan and said his organization favored a different proposal, for the hospital to partner with another nearby operation, like SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Dr. Licht, in turn, said the doctors had engaged with an investment banking firm and expected the firm to issue a letter of high confidence in the plan’s financing soon.
As for a possible new partnership to sustain the hospital, he said, “It should be a relationship that’s based on mutual benefit, based on negotiations between organizations, rather than us being handed off like so much chattel from one organization to another.”
A Temporary Restraining Order has been issued in the case between NYC Department of Corrections and the coalition of jail opponents suing to stop the reopening of the Brooklyn House of Detention.
NYS Senator-Elect Daniel Squadron (D-SD25) issued this statement: “I commend the Department of Corrections for agreeing to halt the proposed expansion of the House of Detention pending further conversation with the community. I hope it is a sign that a new day of community input has dawned, and that we can make progress together toward replacing the jail with the affordable housing and middle school we so desperately need on this site.”
AM New York covers the nabe today:
AMNY: Cobble Hill…: As one of the components of BoCoCa, a name dreamed up by brokers to describe the ritzy patch of wine bars, stylish boutiques and gift shops in northwest Brooklyn, Cobble Hill blends rather seamlessly into neighbors Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill.
As well, the plentiful retail options and packs of yoga-glow moms pushing expensive baby strollers draw inevitable comparisons to that other pretty enclave across the Gowanus Canal, Park Slope.
But Cobble Hill is smaller and more intimate, especially east of Court Street where the noise and fuss gives way to peaceful little streets, gardens with wrought-iron fences and pre-Civil War era townhouses.
“It’s a great place to get lost in,” Frank Baldaro said. “Incredibly romantic surroundings, and the architecture has a sort of Dickensian flavor to it.”
CHA Prexy Jeff Strabone scored a major victory this week in preserving the Cobble Hill Historic District when the Department of Buildings reversed its decision to allow Two Trees to build cabanas at 194 Atlantic Avenue. Actually the DOB had approved “stair bulkheads” and the crafty Strabone and the CHA caught them in the act of deception: Continue Reading →
According to a press release late today from the office of Borough President Marty Markowitz, the New York State Department of Health has denied the application of Continuum Health Partners to close the obstetrics and pediatrics practices at Long Island College Hospital. Continue Reading →
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