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Plymouth Church Hosts 144th-Annual ‘Juneteenth Celebration’ 06/09

By on May 21, 2013 9:00 am in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Music, Religion

Plymouth Church will host its Juneteenth Celebration on Sunday, June 9 at 7 p.m., featuring performances by Daptone Recording artist Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens and Asthmatic Kitty’s The Welcome Wagon. Both acts perform gospel music, and are produced by Sufjan Stevens. The 2013 celebration is the historic church’s 144th Juneteenth Celebration, which commemorates [...]

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Landmarks Says No Go To Willow Street Backyard Pool

By on May 20, 2013 3:58 pm in Architecture, Brooklyn Heights

Residents of 105 Willow Street who applied to excavate their backyard 25 feet deep for an in-ground pool got a thumbs down from Landmarks, according to a story in Brownstoner. The application called for excavation of the property’s rear yard, “putting in a pool and whirlpool underground with a barrel vault ceiling and a skylight, [...]

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Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award

By on May 20, 2013 12:57 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Literature

Brooklyn Heights resident Ron Chernow, who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Washington: A Life, as well as a place in the Brooklyn Heights Blog’s Top 10 that year, has received the BIO award from the non-profit Biographers International Organization. During a gathering May 18 at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Chernow, [...]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “Blooms and Bugs”: Lots of Blooms, No Bugs, Some Birds

By on May 20, 2013 11:20 am in brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Gardening, Nature

As we noted before, this was a big weekend for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Your correspondent chose to register for the early Sunday morning “Blooms and Bugs” tour around Pier 1. The tour leader was Matthew Wills (photo), who publishes the blog Backyard and Beyond. Matthew began by noting that we weren’t likely to [...]

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Adam Yauch To Be Honored At 2013 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

By on May 19, 2013 1:04 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Music

Following May 3rd’s ceremony in Brooklyn Heights dedicating the newly named Adam Yauch Park in honor of the late Beastie Boy, the childhood Heights’ resident will now be acknowledged with a special tribute at the 2013 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, lost his battle with cancer in May 2012, at age 47. Wes Jackson, [...]

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Bloomberg Nixes East River July 4th Fireworks—But Squadron & Markowitz Fight For Right To Party

By on May 19, 2013 11:53 am in Brooklyn Heights, Fireworks

Boom! Hiss! That’s the sound of Brooklyn residents, who are missing out on Macy’s 4th of July fireworks for the fifth consecutive year. But this time, it has nothing to do with the retailer refusing to return the annual fanfare to the East River. Instead, according to the New York Daily News, Mayor Bloomberg nixed [...]

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Willowtown Spring Fair a Lively Event

By on May 19, 2013 12:21 am in Events, Food, Fun, Kids, Music, Pets

A few desultory raindrops weren’t enough to dampen the spirits of those who attended yesterday’s Willowtown Spring Fair (though some of these photos may be slightly blurry because one of those raindrops found your correspondent’s camera’s lens). City Council Member Stephen Levin and his Chief of Staff Ashley Thompson were on the winning tug-of-war team. [...]

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Brooklyn Heights Promenade Gardens Bake Sale

By on May 18, 2013 11:05 am in Gardening

We stopped by the Brookllyn Heights Promenade Gardens Bake Sale this morning. We picked up some yummy (gluten-free for Mrs. Fink) cheesecake as well as snapping a photo of the super-fantastic “plant cake” being auctioned off (for a dollar a holler!).

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Another Chance Saturday To See ‘If These Knishes Could Talk’, BHB Contributor Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Movie

By on May 17, 2013 10:49 am in Arts and Entertainment, movies

Thanks to the great response from yesterday’s sold-out premiere, the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival has added a second screening of Heather Quinlan’s New York accent documentary If These Knishes Could Talk. Tickets are now available here for Saturday at 7:30 pm at St Francis College. Featuring Penny Marshall, Alan Dershowitz, and a still-living Joe Franklin tawking the tawk.

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 15, 2013 11:59 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Comedy, DUMBO, Election 12, Election 13, Events, Gardening, Government, Kids, Maritime, Nature, Obituaries, podcast, Red Hook, Religion, schools, Shopping

This coming weekend is a big one for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Sunday, the Park will celebrate the 130th anniversary of the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge with a marathon reading of Hart Crane’s epic poem The Bridge at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1 starting at 3:00 p.m. More details here. The [...]

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