Brooklyn Heights Christmas Tree lighting is steeped in tradition
December 22, 2025
Brooklyn Heights celebrated the Promenade tree and menorah lighting with Santa, carols and community festivities at Montague Street.
Brooklyn Heights celebrated the Promenade tree and menorah lighting with Santa, carols and community festivities at Montague Street.
Brooklyn Heights celebrates the holidays with snow, Christmas trees, live music, and community caroling events throughout the week.
Debate over BQE Central grows as NYC DOT and local officials clash on plans, community impacts, and the path toward long-term reconstruction.
It was quite the year for fun and creativity at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2025 Halloween Parade on Sunday.
From Brooklyn Heights to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn is coming together to memorialize those who lost their lives on 9/11.
Many of the 100,000 people who held city-issued Brooklyn Bridge Park viewing tickets called the event a “total fiasco.”
Brooklyn Heights residents are furious as the Promenade closes for city VIPs on July 4, disrupting businesses with no advance notice.
Eric Adams is expected to shut down Brooklyn Heights to host a private party on the Promenade for members of his administration.
The cameras have been a priority of the 84th Precinct’s Commanding Officer, Captain Thomas Maffei, whose area includes Brooklyn Heights.
THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS GARDEN CLUB will host the annual Brooklyn Heights Christmas tree lighting at the Promenade on Wednesday.
Removing cantilever under the historic national landmark Brooklyn Heights Promenade would create billions of dollars in damage to Heights.
The Brooklyn Heights Halloween Parade brought hundreds of kids dressed as cartoon characters, cereal boxes and fairies to the Promenade.
Montague Street was once the principal commercial artery of the independent city of Brooklyn, and it remains the commercial heart of Brooklyn Heights to this day, historian and archivist Martha
A secret admirer drew a big pink heart on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade a day or two before Tuesday’s snow storm. The Brooklyn Eagle is dedicating the heart on this
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Heights Promenade will be even more eye-pleasing — and less ratty — in 2024, thanks to the installation of multiple new CITIBIN trash containers. The
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Hundreds of families made their way to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Saturday morning for a time-honored neighborhood favorite, the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2023 Halloween Parade. It
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — NYC Parks Department Gardener Anil Chandrakumar, who has inspired the volunteer gardeners of the Promenade Garden Conservancy to horticultural heights, has been promoted to Brooklyn Horticulture Supervisor.
The Brooklyn Heights Association’s Promenade Gardens Conservancy has long been lauded for its role in lovingly maintaining the gardens along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a historic walkway a third of
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The police on Friday confirmed that a man depicted in photos taken by a Brooklyn Heights resident is their prime suspect in a shocking daytime slashing on
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Someone has been harassing and threatening people on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and authorities want residents to be on the alert. Heights resident Thomas Tyler was sitting
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for an unknown person who brutally slashed a man who was sitting on a bench on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade Tuesday afternoon. An NYPD
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Despite signs saying that the Fourth of July fireworks would not be visible from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade or Brooklyn Bridge Park this year, hundreds still gathered
“There may be finer views than this in the world, but I don’t believe it,” President Abraham Lincoln said in 1864 at the site where the Brooklyn Heights Promenade would
As seen in this photo essay by Beth Eisgrau-Heller, traditions are honored and valued in historic Brooklyn Heights. Sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Garden Club, the tree lighting at the
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A frisson of excitement broke out in the neighborhood the other day when a fancy blue coffee cart appeared on the beloved Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Inside the
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Ahmad Hosman surprised the love of his life on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade recently when — on bended knee — he asked her to marry him. A
A speeding drunk driver on the historic Brooklyn Heights Promenade last week drove his vehicle recklessly along a walkway that is usually packed with both kinds of strollers — people
A long-standing tradition in Brooklyn Heights, the annual Halloween party at Pierrepont Playground, was amended in format this year to create a parade — safely distanced — along the Promenade.
Devoid of an indoor chamber as venue amid the pandemic, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra has chosen the Brooklyn Heights Promenade as the outdoor space for public performances this fall. “All
Thousands of trees were uprooted across New York City in Tropical Storm Isaias on August 4. The city’s Parks Department received more than 21,000 service requests for street and park
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A collection of iconic Brooklyn photographs by the late Irving Kaufman, mostly taken for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in the 1930s to ’50s, were recently digitized by the photographer’s son,
The mood at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting Wednesday night was upbeat as President Martha Bakos Dietz confirmed that an existential threat faced by the neighborhood — a temporary
The job of rebuilding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is just too big, too multijurisdictional and too expensive for New York City to take on by itself, speakers testified at a packed
Happy Valentine’s Day. Where are you and your sweetheart planning to smooch? We have some suggestions, if you haven’t yet made plans for this all-important day. Brooklyn’s got hot spots
They’re breathing a collective sigh of relief on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, because it won’t be demolished for BQE repairs. The mood on the landmarked walkway was upbeat on Sunday