BHA Meeting Notes: New Mottos and Cricket!
Our faithful correspondent Whitbo took notes for us at last night’s Brooklyn Heights Assocation meeting… Marty Markowitz spoke briefly and shared some of the top Brooklyn Tourism slogans that are being considered to become our Borough’s official tag line. Here are some of the best: – Brooklyn: The Bridge is just the beginning – Brooklyn:…
Our faithful correspondent Whitbo took notes for us at last night’s Brooklyn Heights Assocation meeting…
Marty Markowitz spoke briefly and shared some of the top Brooklyn Tourism slogans that are being considered to become our Borough’s official tag line. Here are some of the best:
– Brooklyn: The Bridge is just the beginning
– Brooklyn: It’s like an everything bagel
– Brooklyn: New York starts here
– Brooklyn: The 10th planet
– Brooklyn: In your face and in your heart
Also, in announcements about the recent progress on the Brooklyn Bridge Park, a list of the athletic facilities in the latest plan was read. Along with the requisite softball, soccer, basketball and tennis courts, there are also plans to build a seasonal skating rink under the Bridge itself and topping the list, a cricket pitch! Who’s playing cricket? And much to my chagrin, no petanque courts!
Last on the agenda: There’s a planned condo conversion for the buildng that houses the Independence Bank at Court and Atlantic (old news, I know). Two Trees Management wants to break the 50 foot height restriction in the neighborhood and the BHA is fighting it.
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also like the bridge slogan. most recognizeable. although the everything bagel is probably the most accurate, e.g., new parks in bklyn have cricket pitches. b/t/w, lots of people from former british colonies play cricket and live in bklyn. go to marine park sometime if that’s not too far from the ‘brownstone belt’ for you.
you left out
Brooklyn-where am in the hip pocket of all the developers
The Bridge is just the beginning.
the most universally understood and the most classy.
The others are fun novelties, Brooklyn is not a novelty and we deserve to be represented globally with the respect deserved of one of the finest cities in our country.
Cricket fields are desperately needed. Players are ruining the grass in the Nethermead in Prospect Park.
I like the “everything bagel” slogan.
I like New york starts here
I like “In your face and in your heart” the most – it got a good laugh from the audience as well.
Yes, Whitbo, thanks for paying attention and keeping us informed. I’m putting my vote in for “The 10th Planet”, or we could usurp Boulder, CO’s old slogan: “20 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality.”
Thank you Whitbo for paying attention.
anglophiles…like the francophiles behind the petanque revolution – it is afoot!