[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is Willow and Poplar Streets in Brooklyn Heights, looking west in 1936, in the pre-BQE era.

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This little girl’s Happy is missing. We found the notice attached to a bus shelter near Cadman Plaza. We know how devastating it can be to lose one’s Happy. Please return it if you have found it.

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a pic of Brooklyn Heights taken under a very light blanket of snow.

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There was a dramatic fire yesterday at a building undergoing a gut renovation on Cranberry St. in Brooklyn Heights. The house was believed to have been unoccupied. This is a full slideshow of the blaze sent by a reader.

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[Photo courtesy of mikebny/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a little bit of Black Friday Stoop Sale action in Brooklyn Heights.

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Marie Viljoen] This is the scene outside the Key Food on Atlantic Avenue on the edge of Brooklyn Heights last night. Our phtoographer writes: “Here is pre-Thanksgiving commercial happiness outside the Key Food on Atlantic and Clinton.”

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[Photo courtesy of New York Pubic Library] This is Fulton Street during a snow on January 21, 1978 in the good, old pre-tourismo days.

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If you haven’t read it anywhere else, then… well, you’ve only just started your daily blog reading with us. If you’ve already read it – pardon us. We want to help spread the word, and just can’t help it if organizers inundate the entire Greater New York blogosphere. That being said…with the holiday season closing […]

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Brownstoner dropped the bombshell yesterday that a house at 88 Remsen Street has sold for $10.8M, breaking the previous record of $10.75M (which was set more than two years ago in a very different market). The broker confirmed the sale price.–Brownstoner

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This comes from the BoCoCa Parent Group. The Food Network is going to be around shooting today: if anyone is interested in talking to Bruce Seidel of The FN Dish about their holiday plans please pass this info along. They’ll be in Brooklyn around noon, wrapping by 3 pm… doing a quick shoot on Montague […]

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Last week, it was reported that P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights is getting an “F” on the city’s school report card. School Principal Seth Phillips has sent a letter to parents: “I would be lying to you if I said that this grade does not hurt, but I also strongly believe that this grade does […]

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There should be plenty of reaction to the news that PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights, a very popular school with local parents, has gotten an “F” in the city’s school grading system. “This year, at a July 29 news conference announcing plans for an annex to accommodate the flood of students wanting to attend P.S. […]

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A Brooklyn Heights reader wrote us this week about concern that Joralemon Street was about to lose the last of its beloved cobblestones, but it turns to have been a somewhat false alarm. The original email noted that there is no parking this weekend and that answers have not been forthcoming from the city. He […]

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Don’t look now, but the landmark Bossert Hotel on Montague Street has sold for $92 million. That’s not the interesting part, however. The hotel, which was called Brooklyn’s Waldorf Astoria, is owned by the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) and has been on the market since early this year. The fascinating part is that the buyer […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a gorgeous shot of Brooklyn Heights via the HDR technique in Photoshop that is designed to combine exposures and create some really dramatic looking pictures.

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“I am so freaked out by the Brooklyn Heights raccoon!! A few weeks ago he was sitting on my deck Willow and Cranberry – doors were closed and he was watching my sweet little doggie eat his treat. I have had nitemares ever since! What can we do??!!!”–Bklink: Brooklyn Heights Raccoon

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[Photo courtesy 66 Square Feet] These are Easter Lillies growing on the grounds of a Brooklyn Heights church. 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen, who contributed the photo, explains: “These lilies (Lilium formosanum or Formosa Lilies [native to Taiwan, ex Formosa, blablabla], usually known in the States as Easter lilies) are growing in the grounds […]

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A reader reports: “I’m having dinner this evening al fresco at Tutt Café, and there’s a huge cat crossing the street. But it’s not a cat, it’s clearly a raccoon walking on the west side of Hicks Street, crossing Middagh and heading downhill towards Poplar. I got a good look at it. Stripe across the […]

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[Photo courtesy of 66squarefeet; click to expand] Here’s a killer sunset from the Brooklyn Promenade sent to us by the blogger who does 66 Square Feet.

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The owner of a fruit cart who drew the ire of the Brooklyn Heights Association has won. “It looks like the fruit and vegetable cart on the historic Brooklyn Heights streetcorner is here to stay, even after the Brooklyn Heights Association filed a complaint with the city. ‘I’m going to be here forever,’ one of […]

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The Times take a look at the simmer issue of the St. Ann’s Schools objection to a Federal probation office. “The school, St. Ann’s, has been educating the best of Brooklyn (and other boroughs) for four decades. The school, whose 1,080 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade are spread over six buildings…Parents who pay St. […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan calls this image “Keepin the Riff Raff In.” This shot of the sunset over Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Fence and razor wire works nicely.

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[Photo courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] This view of Downtown as it appears now that many of the warehouses on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront are gone, comes courtesy of Sail Brooklyn in our GL Flickr Pool. Looks a lot different than it used to, yes?

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This gorgeous image from the Brooklyn Promenade comes from Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch. We love the way the light on one of the remain structures on the land that will be Brooklyn Bridge Park looks compared to the Financial District beyond.

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“Why are things moving so slowly at Love Lane Mews? Building permits were approved earlier this month, a couple of weeks after we reported that Sterling Equities had taken a $10 million buy-out from its partner Zucker Group. But a ride down College Place yesterday revealed a handful of workers who seemed to be dealing […]

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