In Focus
E-waste Recycling Event
Oct 29
This is your chance to clean out those closets! The lower East Side Ecology Center is hosting an e-waste event with the First Unitarian Church. This event will take place RAIN OR SHINE in front of the First Unitarian Church on Pierrepont St and Monroe Place, from 10am to 2pm.Read More…
Community Provides BQE Feedback
Fixing the BQE — and doing it right — is going to take time, perseverance, and vision, but it IS possible — and community input is crucial. This is why we asked you to respond to a BQE survey, and the results are in! View survey results Read More...
Latest News
DOT Unveils New BQE Conceptual Plans
Dec 20
Hundreds of people from Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry, Vinegar Hill and Downtown Brooklyn participated in DOT-led workshops in early December to review preliminary design concepts for the Atlantic to Sands section of the BQE corridor. We want to THANK YOU for making time in your schedules at this very busy time of year to engage in this critical and complicated process. Turnout matters!Read More…
Koren Volk is BHA President
Mar 8
We are very pleased to introduce to you the BHA’s new President, Koren Volk. Koren will serve in this capacity until March 2024.Read More…
Mayor Announces Plans for BQE
Aug 4
Eighteen months after his expert panel submitted recommendations, and four weeks after we published an op-ed in the NY Daily News, Mayor de Blasio has announced plans for the short-term repair of the Triple Cantilever. The proposed measures will maintain the structure long enough to allow for the development of a long-term vision for the future of the entire corridor.
DOT’s plans for the shoring up of the cantilever include implementation of measures to stop water infiltration and slow down corrosion, reduce the lanes from six to four, expand monitoring of the structure’s health, and install weigh-in-motion technology to reduce overweight trucks on the structure (pending final approval from the Governor). These measures will extend the life of the structure for 20 years.Read More…
Don’t Let the BQE become the next Champlain Towers!
Jul 8
The BHA has been working with our fellow members of the Coalition for the BQE Transformation to keep the BQE at the top of the agenda for New York City and State lawmakers. Like you, we have been waiting for months for the city to release a plan outlining what it is doing to keep motorists and pedestrians safe on the cantilever, while simultaneously laying the foundation for a longer-term transformation of the BQE corridor. We are tired of waiting and fearful about the potential consequences of doing so much longer.
Erika Belsey Worth, BHA President, co-authored this Op-Ed which is featured in the NY Daily News online today (PDF file of Op-Ed). We hope the Mayor and the Governor will listen.
Upcoming Events
Haunted Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Heights Association is pairing up with Boroughs of the Dead to offer a spooky "Haunted Brooklyn Heights" guided tour. The group will meet at the Henry Ward Beecher statue in Cadman Plaza near Johnson Street at 7pm sharp. This tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration and 1.3 miles in length — ending near Read More...
Halloween Parade on the Promenade
The Brooklyn Heights Association will be hosting its annual Halloween Parade on Saturday, October 28 at 10:30am. Attendees should plan to gather at the entrance to the promenade on Clark Street and parade down to the cul-de-sac on Remsen. Read More...
E-waste Recycling Event
This is your chance to clean out those closets! The lower East Side Ecology Center is hosting an e-waste event with the First Unitarian Church. This event will take place RAIN OR SHINE in front of the First Unitarian Church on Pierrepont St and Monroe Place, from 10am to 2pm. Read More...