The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual Spring Into Service event is this Sunday starting at 10:00 a.m. There are three ways to participate this year. 1. Help Take Care of Our Trees – In partnership with City Councilmember Lincoln Restler’s office and the Big Reuse, BHA calls for volunteers to give our trees some needed TLC. Volunteers will […]
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BHA Spring Into Service May 7, 2023: Help Fill Food Pantries and Donate Gently Used Childrens’ Goods
Ready For a Visit to Runyonland? Heights Players Present Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyon (1880-1946) (caricature: Tad, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons), from Manhattan, Kansas, became a prominent newspaperman in the Borough of Manhattan from the 1920s until his death. While he worked primarily as a sportswriter, he became fascinated by some aspects of New York life that accompanied the sporting scene, and wrote a series of […]
Books Are Magic Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day Saturday
This Saturday, April 29 is Independent Bookstore Day, and Books Are Magic, 122 Montague Street, will be celebrating from 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM with visits by authors at various times throughout the day.
Update on Book Festival
All scheduled activities for today’s Brooklyn Book Festival — see here — will be held indoors, except for the Literary Marketplace, which has been cancelled because of forecast high winds. You can still support participants in the Literary Marketplace by purchasing on line. (Official BKBF Poster by Johnnie Christmas courtesy @bkbookfest at Instagram.)
Busy Weekend Coming
Yes, indeed! We have the Brooklyn Book Festival, with Children’s Day on Saturday, October 1 and Festival Day on Sunday, October 2. Also on Sunday we have the Atlantic Antic. For dance enthusiasts, and for those who would like to learn more about dance, and perhaps try some steps, the Mark Morris Dance Group will […]
Center for Brooklyn History Hosts Oklahoma Teacher Who Resigned After Giving Students Access to Banned Books through Brooklyn Public Library
As a highlight to its celebration of Banned Books Week, the Brooklyn Public Library will present on Saturday, September 24 at its Center for Brooklyn History, “The Battle for the Right to Read What You Want,” a discussion featuring Summer Boismier, an Oklahoma teacher who resigned after controversy erupted because she had provided students with […]
Brooklyn Book Festival: Children’s Day on Sat., Oct. 1, Festival Day on Sun., Oct. 2
The Brooklyn Book Festival is a can’t miss, best of Brooklyn, why we live here, what’s not to like, fun for all, books are not dead, no they’re magic! annual event that has something for everyone. Here are just a few highlights from the many planned events. Jazzed and Poetic Sunday, Oct. 2, 10:00 a.m., […]
St. Ann’s School Dumps Hundreds of Books On Clinton Street
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 […]
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 […]
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