This Saturday afternoon, October 12 starting at 2:00 (doors open at 1:30) at the Brooklyn Heights Library, 286 Cadman Plaza West (near Clark Street) Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own award winning professional theater company, will present a reading of “Critters and Kindness,” a new adaptation of tales from Aesop’s Fables (including “The Hare and the Tortoise”; see image) by Lynn Marie […]
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Get in Shape and Stay Well at Open Streets Montague Sunday
This Sunday, October 13, Open Streets Montague will feature many opportunities for exercise to get and stay in shape and therapy for restoration or preservation of wellness, offered by local providers. It’s all free, but you must reserve times in advance. There’s a full schedule and make reservations here. Starting at 3:oo, under the tent […]
Two Events Coming Up at BHA Designer Showhouse
The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual Designer Showhouse, located at 182 Clinton Street (photo), between State and Schermerhorn streets, described with photos in Mary Frost’s Eagle story and open through November 3, will host two events worth notice in the next few days. On Monday evening, October 7 starting at 7:00 there will be a Consignment Evening with The RealReal. On Tuesday afternoon, October […]
Open Streets Montague Sunday Features Pet Blessings, Sports, and Refreshments
This Sunday, October 6, you may bring your pet, a favorite stuffed animal, or a photo of either to the front of 157 Montague Street, between Clinton and Henry, at 1:00 PM, to receive a blessing from The Rev. Canon John Denaro (photo above), Rector of St, Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, in honor of […]
Chopin Festival at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church This Week
Frédéric Chopin (portrait above at age 25 by his fiancée, Maria Wodzińska, 1835) was, over the course of his 39 year life, a prolific composer of music, much of it for solo piano. This week, Thursday, October 3 through Sunday, October 6, the Ocean Music Foundation will present a Chopin Festival at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity […]
ONE°15 Marina in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina (photo, as seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade), along with its affiliated Estuary restaurant, its Sail Club, and the holding entity One Edge Marina Finance Company, have entered a reorganization proceeding under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. “A chapter 11 debtor usually proposes a plan of reorganization to keep its business alive and pay creditors […]
Big Weekend Coming: Atlantic Antic, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Open Streets Montague
This year’s Atlantic Antic (photo above from a previous year) will take place on Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue this coming Sunday, September 29, from noon until 6:00 p.m., rain or shine. Local merchants will be represented, with special deals for the occasion, along with food, music, dancers, visual artists, clothing vendors, and fun […]
Plymouth Church to Launch History Lecture Series with Talk by Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer
Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street (between Henry and Hicks) is inaugurating the Henry Ward Beecher Lecture Series “to inform a 21st Century audience of all ages on the history of the church, the history of New York City and Brooklyn, and the history of the United States.” Beecher, who served as Plymouth’s minister from its founding in 1847 […]
“Big Rig” Bedeviling Brooklyn Heights
On April 15 your correspondent took this photo of a “big rig,” a diesel powered tractor with an attached, very long, cargo carrying trailer, trying to navigate the corner from Montague to Hicks Street. Now Mary Frost in The Eagle has chronicled how this same truck, which makes deliveries to Key Food Montague, has been unleashing chaos on the streets […]
Perelandra Going Out of Business
Perelandra Natural Foods, 175 Remsen Street, in business in Brooklyn Heights since 1976, will be closed permanently following close of business this Sunday. The news was broken by reader “Banet” on Open Thread Wednesday, who is quoted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as saying a cashier at the store said Perelandra hadn’t lost its lease but that it […]
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