If you live on Boerum Hill and you were waiting for your mail last week, there is a chance that it didn’t show up on several days. We saw a significant number of emails complaining about skipped deliveries, including one who was counting the number of days that her New Yorker was overdue. Here’s the […]

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These newest complaints from Boerum Hill are of a specific nature, but interesting in terms of some potentially new obstacles that residents face. Here’s one: I just came back from the post office to retrieve a package I had tracked; the information online was that a notice had been left (it wasn’t – or it […]

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We do love our Boerum Hill/Atlantic Avenue Times Plaza Post Office stories, particularly given the coverage we’ve done recently, for instance, here and here. So, here’s a angry email from the Yahool Boerum Hill Group that would indicate that claimed service improvements may not be taking place: had a horrendous, Third World experience at the […]

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Apparently some people in Boerum Hill have been suffering from an internet outage courtesy Time Warner. Per a GL reader: “I don’t know of anyone else has mentioned this but I live in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn and we’ve been without cable since sometime Friday afternoon. Time Warner doesn’t seem to have any […]

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NYPD Was On The Scene Too., originally uploaded by woodendesigner. Anyone that was out last night on Smith Street near Atlantic Avenue (and certainly anyone that was there when it happened) probably noticed a huge commotion. It was the aftermath of a police chase that started in Newark, crossed New Jersey into Manhattan, and ended […]

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We don’t know if cases of vandalism and weirdness like people taking craps on the street are more common to Boerum Hill than some Brooklyn neighborhoods or if we just happen to catch more of the emails, but here’s a little story about a rock going through someone’s window from the Boerum Hill Yahoo group’s […]

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We have seen many raccoons sauntering around Brooklyn, but we’re always amused by tales of raccoon sightings and reactions to them. This email comes from the Boerum Hill group on Yahoo: I saw a large raccoon last night, proceeding calmly down the south side of State between Smith and Hoyt, going up and down each […]

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Fitting the Valentine’s Day theme, we got an email from Nicole Block, who’s a Brooklyn-based custom stationary designer. She wrote to let us know that she’s co-hosting a bridal event with Yvonne Chu of Kimera, the dress and design shop on Atlantic Ave: It is called the Stationery and Skirts Event, and it’snext weekend, the […]

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Here’s the latest little uplifting incident that caught our eye in Boerum Hill: a car vandalized via shooting. Here are the details, via an email from the Boerum Hill Group on Yahoo: I thought everyone should know that the car vandalism problem is excalating. This family lives on Bergen between Bond & Hoyt. They parked […]

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The Boerum Hill Association is having a “Quality of Life Meeting” on Wednesday (2/13) at 7PM at the Belarusian church on Atlantic & Bond Streets. Topics and presentations will include: Crime – 84th Precinct Community Affairs Sanitation — Department of Sanitation Noise — Department of Environmental Protection Rats — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene […]

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It just could be that the way to get improvements at a Brooklyn Post Office that everyone’s unhappy with is to start a campaign of collection complaint that make their way into online, print and television media. So it is with Boerum Hill’s Times Plaza Station, aka the Nightmare Post Office. (A couple of weeks […]

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This email, which is circulating via the Boerum Hill Yahoo Group, is about some less than savory drug-related goings on on and/or near Dean Street: Yesterday I found a syringe in my front yard. While I have seen these laying around in the past, this one was FILLED WITH BLOOD! I was totally grossed out!!! […]

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News 12 did a report on the Times Plaza Station in Boerum Hill that we’ve been posting about all week (and it turns out that some of the emails we from residents that we related were featured in the story). Someone posted the vid to YouTube, so check out the embed below, especially noting the […]

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This is 380 Baltic Street, about which there was a small uproar back in 2006. There was even a protest/press conference outside at which Robert Scarano (who is not the building’s architect) made an appearance. Nearly two year later, the 11-story tall building is at an advanced stage. In November, Brownstoner reported that one of […]

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From the Boerum Hill Association comes an email calling for the replacement of the Times Plaza Post Office, the frustrations of which we featured in two posts (here and here) earlier this week. Here is the email making the rounds from the Boerum Hill Group: The Times Plaza Post Office has been a source of […]

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Yesterday, we posted a number of complaints about the Times Plaza Station on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenue. There were so many that a resident collected to send to a manager at the Postal Service who professes interest in fixing the situation that we decided to break the post into two parts. Here […]

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Complaints about and evaluations of postal service in Brooklyn never fail to amuse and enlighten. This one is about the Times Plaza Station on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenue. The comments come via the Boerum Hill Yahoo group, where a member has solicited and collected comments from readers to share with the officials […]

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It takes place tonight at 7PM at Artezn, which is at 444 Atlantic, between Bonds and Nevins. While one is there, there are many last minutes holiday gift items, like Brooklyn Landmark Pint Glasses and Brooklyn Skull T-Shirts. Entertainment and shopping!

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The monster car-killing hole on Pacific Street between Bond and Nevins opened wide again yesterday for another round of Demolition Derby before being filled up, although it likely to come back to life as some sort of underground collapse or leak is causing it. The most recent email from the Boerum Hill Yahoo Group about […]

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It’s more of a listing of stores with great photos, but nonetheless, Atlantic Avenue Holiday Shopping & Restaurants is valuable for those looking to hit up the interesting area and its establishments. It’s being produced by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corp.–Atlantic Avenue Holiday Shopping & Restaurants

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We thought we’d pass along a report from the Boerum Hill Yahoo group of a depression/sink hole that’s been opening up on Pacific Street between Bond and Nevins. Specifically: It collapsed this morning and there was a two foot depression that wrecked someone’s wheels. It keeps collapsing. My guess is that the vault that runs […]

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Depending on one’s perspective, the following odd situation in Boerum Hill, via one of the local mailing lists, is either a huge pain or a Godsend. We know people that would consider it to be either. It could be a great way to get into the thrift shop or Williamsburg weekend sidewalk vending business. Anyway, […]

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The “Official Boerum Hill No Menu/Flier Signs,” designed to thwart the leaving of take out & delivery menus plus flyers, are here. They are described as being “about the size of a post card, printed in color, with the universal NO symbol (a circle with a slash through it), superimposed on a graphic depiction of […]

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We have some burned car action in Boerum-Cobble Hill-ish Brooklyn. The report circulated via the Boerum Hill Group mailing list comes from Boerum Place and Dean Street: I was amazed yesterday morning to see a totally trashed and burned car parked on Boerum Place at the corner of Dean. Does anyone know the story on […]

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From an email circulating in Boerum Hill Association circles comes the following email about setting trashcans on fire (and “kids” taking change and food from the corner coffee shop). Here it is: Last night on Bergen between Hoyt and Nevins someone or group set fire to several trash cans that were put out for garbage […]

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