Literary Brooklyn Heights, by Norm Goldstein, in the Literary Traveller

“I live in Brooklyn,” Truman Capote once wrote. “By choice.”

He described the New York City borough, for the most part, as a “veritable veldt of tawdriness.”  But, he added, there also was an “oasis” of a Brooklyn neighborhood, a “splendid contradiction.”

This “oasis” was–and is–the area known as Brooklyn Heights.

“Heights,” he wrote, “because it stands atop a cliff that secures a sea-gull’s view of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, of lower Manhattan’s tall dazzle and the ship-lane waters, breeding river to bay to ocean, that encircle and seethe past posturing Miss Liberty.”

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Woe a Little Less: Coming to Montague St.

by Mary Kim on December 4, 202111:45 am in Brooklyn Heights, Food, Restaurants

“Now that the “drabness” of Montague St. has been exposed to all of NYC and beyond, and the community spilled its woes in this blog’s comments section in such spirited style that another blog directed its readers to it, let us look forward to less drabness with these soon-to-come offerings in the new year.”

For a complete list go to: http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/93754

Thanks to Larry Kaplan for the pic.

For a list of upcoming holiday markets visit Brooklyn Bridge Parents: https://brooklynbridgeparents.com/holiday-markets-and-fairs-in-our-neighborhoods/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email

A shareholder contributed a photo of our doorman Kevin decked out in dashing leprechaun garb.

Situated right on Dumbo’s waterfront, with impeccable views of the Manhattan Bridge, the East River, and the Lower East Side across the water, the 6,500 square-foot library occupies the first floor of an old manufacturing building at 9 Adams St., with the rest of the building featuring residential apartments. It is primarily though not exclusively a space for children’s learning and enrichment.

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