What happens at the Annual Meeting?

Attending our annual meeting is a wonderful opportunity to hear about our focus for the neighborhood in 2026 and get your burning questions answered!  One of our favorite parts of the meeting is celebrating members of our community who have volunteered their time and energy to help make Brooklyn Heights the community we all cherish. 

Please join us on  Wednesday, March 11 at First Unitarian Church (119 Pierrepont Street.) Doors will open at 6pm and the meeting will begin at 6:30pm.

Following the meeting, we will host a community reception with light refreshments. It's the perfect opportunity to meet our staff, Board of Governors and your neighbors. We thank our BHA Neighborhood Partner, The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights, for their support of this event.

Photo: 2025 BHA Community Service Award Winners, pictured from left BHA Deputy Director Kim Glickman, Volunteers Katheryn Keller, Andrew Nodell, Lauren Wilson, Andy McNeil, Alexis McNeil, David Solomito and Azra Sudetic with BHA Executive Director Lara Birnback.

Photo Credit: Brooklyn Eagle photo by John McCarten.

New York City is still digging out from January's record-breaking snowstorm. While most curb cuts are passable, challenges remain for those using a walker, a wheelchair or pushing a stroller.  If you have a shovel and some time, consider walking around our neighborhood and cleaning out or widening some of the curb cuts.  The snow is pretty soft right now so we'd love to get as much clearance as possible before the freeze returns this weekend.

The other visible challenge with the snowfall and subsequent deep freeze is trash and recycling collection. We've heard from many of you about this!

The Department of Sanitation delayed pick ups at the start of the storm in order to prioritize snow removal on our streets. DSNY teams (including workers brought in to help from PA and CT) have been working back-to-back 12-hour shifts since the storm and they are doing their best to catch up on garbage, compost and recycling pick up in addition to managing snow removal. (We saw a huge truck removing mounds of snow  at Clark and Cadman Plaza at 11pm Tuesday night which we were told was headed to a field on Staten Island!)

We appreciate your patience and especially your help with shoveling if you can offer it during this time.

The BHA recently engaged Jay, a nearby resident, to remove the snow around the Montague Street seating. Thanks to his dedication and  hard work, many of these areas have been cleared.  We know the weather isn't conducive to much outdoor sitting, but having these areas cleared from mounds of snow, increases visibility and pedestrian mobility as our neighborhood works to get back on its feet (literally and figuratively.)

Jay is a responsible and hard worker and eager to take on more jobs.  If you are interested in hiring him directly, please email us and we can provide more details. We are so appreciative to the Clean Streets Project for making the introduction!

Join Ian Coss, host of the GBH News Peabody Award-winning podcast The Big Dig, and Stephen Nessen of WNYC’s On The Way, in conversation with former NYCDOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and the BHA's Executive Director Lara Birnback, for a live taping about the transportation puzzle that New York City can’t seem to solve. 

Saturday, February 7. Grace Church Winter Fair. 10am-3pm.

Monday, February 9. Rat Academy Training.  5-7pm.  Register

Monday, February 16. John Meacham "The Presidents and the People".  Plymouth Church. 7pm.  RSVP

Wednesday, March 11.  BHA Annual Meeting. 6:30pm with reception to follow.  First Unitarian Church. RSVP.

Saturday, March 21. Storytime and Scoops @ CityPoint. 10:30am. An event for dads and their babies.  Details coming soon.

Saturday, March 28.  BHA Egg Hunt.  Details coming soon.

Wednesday, April 8.  BHA Book Club.  7-8:30pm at Vineapple.  Tickets will go on sale mid-February.