Remember about 10 days ago in Prospect Heights? When suddenly there were about 20 gunshots on Vanderbilt Ave. at 7 pm? And then 10 minutes later you checked the Prospect Heights Message Boards? And there was this rapidly evolving thread about a body laying on the ground near Carlton and Dean, and then it turned out that he was Javaughn Higgins, a kid recently indicted in the beating death of a Bangladeshi immigrant? But that Young Master Higgins got out of jail thanks to his mom who paid the bail against her home mortgage? And then it turned out that the kid had just tried to mug a guy for his iPod using a fake gun? And then the police found the guy and opened fire? And that was the story of the gunshots? Well now, here’s the story from the point of view of the guy mugged for his iPod, as told to The New Zealand Herald.
Beware of "Keith", the (Allegedly) Crack-Smoking, (Absolutely) Intimidating Panhandler with Subtle Mugger Overtones
He’s back. Making the rounds last night.
esmits wrote in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “This guy was agressive, not in the way that he just kept talking, or telling stories. He was physically agressive with his body language, verbally agressive too. He threatened me a few times. I thought I was being mugged.”
Who is he? According to your neighbor-in-the-know: “He is known to a lot of PHers as ‘Keith’. He’s notorious for intimidating people for cash. He likes to smoke crack under my stoop. he also has a very pronouced stutter. He’s known to follow people for several blocks.”
Early Warning System (beeeeeeep): Prospect Heights Message Boards
Isa in Gothamist!
“Despite her book’s imposing title, 32-year-old Vegan With a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock author Isa Chandra Moskowitz is delightfully funny. A vegetarian since her teens, Moskowitz’s philosophy about food can be summed up by the words ‘cooking is fun.’ Her cookbook features recipes for everything from soup to pizza to tempeh bacon to cupcakes, with little stories interspersed about her introduction to punk rock, growing up in Brooklyn, and running her cable access show Post Punk Kitchen.”
Whadja get?
Trick-or-Treat Aftermath:
Sisters comparing their haul at El Gran Castillo de Jagua, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, earlier this week.
Just Try to Stop Yourself from Saying "Awwwww…"
You want this kitty? Kitty story here.
Brooklyn Museum of Art Fountain
Nice!
Still waiting for somebody to capture the kinetics of this fountain and then vlog this.
This is one of more than 200 images in the Prospect Heights photo pool on Flickr,, a project populated by 41 of your most charming and insightful neighbors.
Now, go take a look at the Prospect Heights Message Boards, for no good reason at all.
TONIGHT: Cringe Reading Night at Freddy's
Don’t miss this. And get there early if you want a seat.
Please Help (Also: Awwwwwww)
Now that Daily Heights is the #1 Destination on the Internet for Free Kittens (Note: There are No Free Kittens(TM)), it’s very appropriate to highlight the following post in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
nybt writes: “My wife, kind soul, has found a stray cat that needs a home and some TLC that we just can’t provide (we already have two cats, etc.). Can anybody provide a home for her or suggest a shelter where she can stay ’til she finds a home?”
UPDATE: “Either the cat is really constipated, or it’s very pregnant. If not for the very solid, very round belly, she’d be rail thin. .”
UPDATE to UPDATE: “Approximately 3 hours ago, Cat went in to labor! She has given birth to 5 black/gray/white bundles of joy! … Anybody need a kitten in two-three months?!”
UPDATE to UPDATE to UPDATE: “On a very sad note- the runt, named ‘Beatle’ by my wife’s co-worker’s son, died on Friday … It was a very sad day in house- I root for the underdog, and as such he was my favorite.”
“The remaining 4 are very healthy- they’ve tripled in weight and are just starting to open their eyes.”
GET A KITTY: Prospect Heights Message Boards
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Getting to the Bottom of the FreshDirect Story
Lucas wrote in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “I just spoke with Fresh Direct’s PR. The story about the CMO handing over his business card was very compelling to me, so I had to get to the bottom of it (I work with a biz mag, thought it might have been a story.)”
“Fresh Direct says the CMO never met with Tessa, the blogger. Fresh Direct says it did send an official to meet with her, though the official was apparently a guy from the Transportation division. And while he did bring photos and leave his business card, the company says he ‘absolutely did not’ tell her to hold it up to the door – or present it to the delivery person.”
“Can’t say who to believe, but I gotta believe it would be pretty audacious for Fresh Direct to lie about all of the above…”