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True Blue: Brooklyn Heights USPS Mailbox Reveals Curiously Gaudy New Hue
A USPS mailbox at the corner of Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Street has revealed a brazen new blue hue… without any particular rhyme or reason. We conducted a web search to see if the struggling...
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A Close Encounter With “Captain Cleanup” The Post Box Repainter Of Brooklyn...
A long time BHB reader sent us this dispatch Sunday afternoon regarding the Brooklyn Heights “super-hero” responsible for repainting many mailboxes in the neighborhood: I saw this un-caped crusader...
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The U.S. Post Office Paints Over The Work Of Brooklyn Heights’“Captain Cleanup”
This just in from a BHB reader — it appears the the United States Post Office has determined the work of Brooklyn Heights’ so-called “Captain Cleanup” is not up to snuff. A USPS worker was spotted...
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Brooklyn Heights Blogger Coins A Phrase For Captain Cleanup’s Work In...
BHB reader/blogger John Sanchez has coined a phrase for the work of “Captain Cleanup“, the Brooklyn Heights man who is on a one man campaign to paint over graffiti on mailboxes and other things in the...
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Brooklyn Paper Scribe Obsessed With Brooklyn Heights’ Captain Cleanup
Just as we were getting all misty eyed over old pal/former Brooklyn Paper EIC Gersh Kuntzman’s return to the interwebs, another local journo has caught our eye. Almost a month after we stamped fini on...
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The BHB Ten: The Most Influential People In Brooklyn Heights For 2013
Our readers have spoken and our editorial team has weighed in on the BHB Ten for 2013. In no particular order, here’s the list of the people who made a difference in (or from) Brooklyn Heights last...
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The Eagle Meets Brooklyn Heights’ Captain Cleanup
BHB and its readers discovered Captain Cleanup, the Brooklyn Heights good samaritan known for painting and freshening up area mail boxes, fire boxes, fire hydrants and other objects, last year. As a...
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Streetside Call Boxes Functional Again, and “Captain Cleanup” Caught in the Act
We have word from a reader that Verizon has installed new fiber optic communications cable, and that consequently the streetside fire and police call boxes at various locations around Brooklyn Heights...
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The BHB Ten for 2015!
Here, in no particular order, are the people you, the readers, and we nominated for the Brooklyn Heights Ten for the past year, 2015.Tracy (“Mrs. Fink”) Zamot and daughter Gracie: The sudden and...
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