This has been a rumor on the Daily Heights message board, but Brownstoner confirms it: Tom’s is going to be open on Sundays starting in October!  For those of you not fortunate enough to live less than a block away, Tom’s is a diner that’s been run by the same family since 1936, famous for [...]

This just goes to show you how easy it is to miss things that are right before your eyes.  This is on my corner and I had no idea it was happening!  According to Brownstoner, there’s a new market going in on the corner of Washington and Park in that red brick fortress-looking building that [...]

This INCREDIBLE rainbow was just over Prospect Heights!  I have to say I have never seen one this big or bright.  Amazing!  Happy Pride, with love from Nature.

From Brownstoner: “The Landmarks Preservation Commission earlier today unanimously approved the designation of the Prospect Heights Historic District. The district contains 850 buildings and is the largest designation since the Upper West Side got the nod back in 1990.”
More soon!

Many of you may recognize Unnameable Books from their former location on Bergen between Flatbush and Fifth Ave.  Thankfully for those of us a few blocks further east, they’ve recently moved to a new location at Vanderbilt and St. Marks.  This independent bookstore is split pretty evenly between new and used books, and they aleady [...]

On my walk around the neighborhood yesterday I noticed big progress at what will soon be the new baseball diamond on Dean between 6th Ave. and Carlton.  They took open blacktop and replaced it with a state of the art drainage system, and they’re finishing it off now with turf of some kind (that’s the [...]

Hey there neighborhoodies, just found a couple of great websites for information on the Prospect Heights neighborhood.
Heart of Brooklyn is a group that partners with neighborhood cultural institutions to do outreach and promotion.  Check out their great coupon book for Summer Streets on Vanderbilt on Sunday.
The Washigton Avenue/Prospect Heights Association is a non-profit of businesses [...]

On Sunday at Summer Streets, I met a couple of members of the Prospect Heights Community Farm, which is a community garden on St. Marks between Vanderbilt and Underhill.  Members have access to the garden, which has individual raised plots as well as some public space.  According to this article, they also have a pretty [...]

Hello, faithful readers!  Just got back from the first of four Summer Streets on Vanderbilt.  Basically, they’re turning Vanderbilt into a pedestrian plaza from Dean to Park Place all four Sundays in June from 12 to 5pm.  It was pretty neat!  It wasn’t at all like a street fair, more like a block party for [...]