A lot went on at Thursday night’s Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting, much of which is touched on in our “Tale of the Tweets” coverage. I have a few points about the business side of the meeting to expand on. In addition to the awards for “best diner” to Clark Restaurant and to Patricia and [...]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Starting tomorrow (Friday, February 7) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing for a limited two week engagement Gloria, a film by Chile’s Sebastian Lelio, starring Paulina Garcia (in Spanish, with English subtitles). The Cinema will also be showing Nebraska. Today is your last chance to see Inside Llewen Davis at the Cinema (your correspondent [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The Heights Players are opening their production of Big River, a musical based on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with a score by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. Shows will be at 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, at the Playhouse at 26 Willow Place. There’s more [...]
Dick Whitney, Madoff of the 1930s, Topic of Heights Casino Speaker Series Wednesday Evening
“Not Dick Whitney!” were President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s words on hearing that fellow patrician (though not fellow Democrat) Richard Whitney had been arrested and charged with perpetrating a massive fraudulent scheme that would prefigure Bernard Madoff’s even greater scheme in recent years. On Wednesday evening, November 6, Brooklyn Heights resident Malcolm MacKay, author of Impeccable [...]
Friends Of The Brooklyn Heights Branch Library To Hold Gala
Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library will hold a fundraiser on October 21. Featured at the event will be author Evan Hughes. His ‘Literary Brooklyn’ looks at the rise of Brooklyn through the lens of many of its famous authors. The Brooklyn Eagle has published an interview with Hughes: What is your favorite bookstore [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This Sunday, September 22 is the Brooklyn Book Festival (photo; video after the jump), “the largest free literary event in New York City.” It will take place at Borough Hall and the adjacent plaza from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., rain or shine. Possible thunderstorms are forecast, but with luck they’ll stay away, and plenty [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This Saturday, September 14, promises to be a good deal cooler (high 71), and such a change in weather promises some breezes, so it should be a good day for the Kite Festival, to be held from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. For those interested in more down to [...]
Writer Amy Grace Loyd on Brooklyn Heights
Local writer Amy Grace Loyd, whose first novel, The Affairs of Others, was published last month, sounds off about the neighborhood in Brooklyn Magazine. A resident since the early ’90s, Loyd offers her opinions on best coffee (the oft-forgotten Connecticut Muffin), best place to see a movie (Heights Cinema) and, interestingly, best dry cleaners (Heights Cleaners). More of Loyd’s best-ofs, and what amuses her bouche, are here.
Proust in the Park Tomorrow Evening
The “Books Under the Bridge” reading series continues tomorrow evening (Monday, July 29) at the Granite Prospect, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, starting at 7:00, with a reading from Swann’s Way, the opening volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental trilogy À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time). [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
For fans of the musical avant garde of the mid to late twentieth century, on Friday evening at 8:00 Bargemusic will present “Sonatas and Interludes” by John Cage (photo), performed on piano by Marc Peloquin. For fans of more conventional art music, on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. ther will be [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Saturday is the annual City of Water Day, and Brooklyn Bridge Park has several events planned to celebrate it. There will be kayaking from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. between piers 1 and 2. From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Pier 6 there will be a Wildlife Theater performance that should appeal to kids, A [...]
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Open Thread Wednesday 3/5/14
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Citibike Rate Hike May Become Reality
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Judge Throws Out 150 Joralemon’s Citibike Lawsuit
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Brooklyn Heights Resident Lena Dunham Is Hosting Saturday Night Live This Weekend
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Montague Street Tunnel Will Reopen In October, MTA Says
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50 Cent Produced Show ‘Power’ Shoots On Hicks, Cranberry Streets On Thursday
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Gettysburg: One Woman’s War at St. Francis College This Wednesday
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Scouting NY Reports On The “Lost” Pool At The Hotel St. George In Brooklyn Heights
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Shot In Brooklyn Heights, The Bombtastic ‘Winter’s Tale’ Gets The ‘How Did This Get Made Treatment’
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Archie Comics Taps Nabe Resident Lena Dunham For Limited Run
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Free Recital Wednesday, March 19 by Classical Pianist Rowena Mariano
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Scouting NY Reports On The “Lost” Pool At The Hotel St. George In Brooklyn Heights
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Plymouth’s Underground Thrift Store “Spring Fever” This Weekend
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Karl Junkerfeld’s Tribute to Brian McGorry, Brooklyn Heights’ “Mayor of Cranberry Street”
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Gettysburg: One Woman’s War at St. Francis College This Wednesday
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Cosmos Partner in Soccer Training at Pier 5 This Spring
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Citibike Rate Hike May Become Reality
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Shot In Brooklyn Heights, The Bombtastic ‘Winter’s Tale’ Gets The ‘How Did This Get Made Treatment’
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Archie Comics Taps Nabe Resident Lena Dunham For Limited Run
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Judge Throws Out 150 Joralemon’s Citibike Lawsuit
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