NYT Architecture : A Fixer Upper That Predates the Brooklyn Bridge https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/realestate/greek-revival-townhouse-brooklyn-heights.html #RealEstateandHousing(Residential) #BrooklynHeights(Brooklyn,NY) #Architecture

Seen in Brooklyn Heights on April 6, 2025, an Amazon e-cargo "bike" (I dispute "bike" but setting that aside). I used these photos to illustrate an article. Setting aside the question of whether something with four wheels can be a bike, I like the form-factor and it is fun to watch them chug along in Brooklyn.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/amazon-cargo-bikes-in-brooklyn/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #Houses #Brick #Street #Amazon #ECargoBike #EQuadCargoBike #Delivery #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS

Seen on Love Lane and College Place in Brooklyn Heights (NYC) on June 23, 2025, a free white desk.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/free-desk-on-love-lane-in-brooklyn-heights/

Tags:
#NewYorkCity #NYC #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #Desk #Furniture #StretFurniture #CardboardBoxes #CompostBins #Frence #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

The nice thing about Cybertrucks is how they just blend right in with everything around them. Pictured here is a Cybertruck in front of the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn Heights. The Bossert Hotel is no longer a "hotel" -- it was once a galmorous hotel in the 1940 and 50s. It was owned by the Jehovah's Witnesses for a while before they left Brooklyn Heights (well-maintained). They left. It has gone through multiple owners since and is dragging the area down. The only residents live under the shed, which I now only view from across the street.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/u-s-air-force-targets-cybertrucks/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #BossertHotel #Shed #Scaffolding #Cybertruck #GooglePixel6a #GooglePixel #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

This 1914 #NYTMCollection photograph shows a portion of Montague Street in #BrooklynHeights that no longer exists, plus a streetcar line that once travelled on it. Taken looking east from the waterfront, the image depicts Montague Street sloping downhill and passing under a stone archway.

Jim Walden is an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. He has roughly the same chance of being elected as I do. But prospects of victory aside, I came across his campaign car, it appears to be a MINI Cooper, parked in Brooklyn Heights (where Mr. Walden reportedly lives) on Hicks Street between Montague and Clark. It was the first time I had seen a campaign car in person since stumbling upon Jimmy McMillan's campaign van in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in 2011, so I had to turn it into an article. (Do note the *interesting* license plate in the second photo.)

Walden Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/jim-waldens-nyc-mayor-campaign-car/

Bonus Jimmy McMillan Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-true-story-of-jimmy-mcmillan-and-a-too-long-line-at-dunkin-donuts/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #PoliticalCampaign #CampaignCar #Trees #JimWalden #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Stop lining up in #BrooklynHeights to buy #croissant 🥐 #breakfast #cereal!