One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, or so the adage goes. It started with a late-afternoon post to Buy Nothing Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo/Vinegar Hill. St. Ann’s School had just dumped hundreds of books in the trash. “Curb Alert: Close to 40 Clinton by the parking garage at 3:50pm Tuesday…Hundreds of books. So many good ones.” The post fomented […]
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Brooklyn Book Festival September 25 – October 3
The Eagle reports that the Brooklyn Book Festival will return from September 25 through October 3, offering “events throughout Brooklyn as well as a full Virtual Festival Day (Sept. 25) to expand its reach to readers anywhere in the world.” As always, all events will be free. Books will be for sale at various publishers’ […]
BOOKS ARE MAGIC Coming to Montague St.!!!
Books Are Magic, the second coming, is opening on Montague St.! Owner Emma Straub announced via social media today that the wildly popular Cobble Hill book shop is opening a second location at 122 Montague St. (between Kiehl’s and Haagan-Dazs). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Books Are Magic (@booksaremagicbk) You might remember […]
Author Leigh Newman Reads from “Nobody Gets Out Alive” at Plymouth Church Wednesday, April 20
Leigh Newman, an award winning local resident author, will be at the Reception Room of Plymouth Church, of which she is a member, this coming Wednesday evening, April 20. There will be cocktails starting at 6:30, followed at 7:30 by Ms. Newman’s reading from her latest book, Nobody Gets Out Alive, “an exhilarating story collection […]
Theater 2020 Presents Shaw’s “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets” Next Saturday
This coming Saturday, March 12 Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own award winning live theater company, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library, will present an on line reading of George Bernard Shaw’s (photo) short one act play, “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.” In the play, Shakespeare, played by Theater 2020’s Co-Producing Artistic Director and […]
“Hybrid” Brooklyn Book Festival Underway
The main events of this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival take place this coming weekend. This year’s Festival is “Hybrid,” with many events in person and many on-line. Children’s Day is Saturday, October 2; schedule and locations here. The main event, and Literary Marketplace (see photo) will be on Sunday, October 3; schedule and locations here. There are “Bookends” events taking […]
Three Public Art Installations at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park has three public art installations, two already in place and lasting into September, and one about to open and in place until April of next year. All are in the former Empire Fulton Ferry State Park section, a short walk down the hill. We, Women (photo) is “the largest social impact photography […]
Coming Virtual Events from the Center for Brooklyn History
The Center for Brooklyn History, formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society (located at the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton streets) is presenting a number of free virtual discussions among panels of distinguished educators, writers, and activists on a variety of topics, including feminism and race, how signage affects our perceptions of communities and businesses, and how […]
Theater 2020 Presents “Masque of the Red Death” On Line for Halloween
Looking for some virtual excitement this Halloween? Starting at 8:00 p.m. Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will present a virtual reading, featuring the Karloffian voice of David Fuller, of a classic uniquely suited to our present world, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” If you dare, email theater2020@gmail.com and […]
“Orange is the New Black” Author Piper Kerman Featured at Last “Books Under the Bridge” Virtual Event Monday
This Monday, October 19 at 7:00 p.m. Brooklyn Bridge Park, in conjunction with Freebird Books, will present the last of this season’s “Books under the Bridge” virtual events. It will feature Piper Kerman, the author of the book that inspired Orange is the New Black, along with Vikki Law. They will discuss how prisons make […]
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