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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 25, 2014 5:23 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Food, Fun, Kids, Maritime, movies, Music

Today (Friday, July 25) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will have its premiere showings of A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and based on a novel by spy fiction master John le Carré. It will continue to show through the weekend and the following week, along with Chef. On Saturday evening at [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 17, 2014 2:22 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

On my customary morning stroll around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, I found actors rehearsing Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew for Random Access Theatre’s free performances of that classic comedy at the Granite Prospect on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings (July 18, 19, and 20) starting at 7:00. More information here. Also at Brooklyn Bridge [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 11, 2014 3:12 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Dance, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music

Tomorrow (Saturday, July 12) is City of Water Day, and Brooklyn Bridge Park is participating with kayaking and with Seining the River Wild. The Park’s Pier Kids series presents The Art of Stepping on Pier 1 Sunday from 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m. All of these events are free. Also on Sunday Smorgasburg will be [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on July 4, 2014 2:09 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fireworks, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music

Update:On Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. the Brooklyn Heights Association will have a social event at the new Chocolate Works on Montague. Details here. Tonight’s Fireworks take top billing for events this weekend, but the Brooklyn Heights Cinema again has new offerings. Late tomorrow (Saturday) night, July 5, starting at 11:45, there will be [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 26, 2014 12:41 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music

The Brooklyn Heights Cinema will have its premiere showing of They Came Together, starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd tomorrow (Friday, June 27). The Cinema will also be showing Ida and Words and Pictures. On Sunday, June 29 at 7:00 p.m. there will be a special showing of “Cartoon Cryptozoologist” Tom Stathes’ Cartoons on Film. [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 19, 2014 5:48 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Comedy, Events, Food, Fun, Gardening, Kids, movies, Music, Sports

This Saturday, June 21, the Atlantic Avenue BID, in conjunction with Make Music New York, is having its first ever Summer Celebration from noon until 9:00 p.m. The festivities will span the length of Atlantic from the East River to Flatbush Avenue, and will include live music from 36 performers and groups at 12 venues, [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 12, 2014 10:35 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Parents, Photography, Theater

We get our own Shakespeare in the Park this coming weekend (Friday, June 13 through Sunday, June 15) as Theater 2020 continues their critically praised production of King Lear with three free performances at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings starting at 7:00. It’s slated to be perfect walking weather on [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on June 5, 2014 10:39 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Kids, movies, Music, Parents, Photos, Poetry, Shopping, Theater

PS 8′s annual Paddlewheeler Block Party is this Saturday, June 7, from noon to 4:00 p.m. on Poplar Street between Henry and Hicks streets. It’s your, and your kids’, chance to meet Elsa the Snow Queen and Anna from Frozen. There will be a bouncy castle, a magic show, face and hair painting, an obstacle [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 30, 2014 12:07 am in Arts and Entertainment, Astronomy, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Dance, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater, Visual Arts

Besides the not-to-be-missed Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour, there are several events of note in the neighborhood this weekend. Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral (photo), Henry and Remsen Streets, will have its annual Lebanese Festival on Saturday, May 31 from noon to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 from noon to 6:00 p.m. The festival [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 22, 2014 6:12 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Comedy, Events, Food, Fun, Health, History, movies, Music, Seniors, Theater

In town for the holiday weekend? It’s your last chance to see the Heights Players’ final production of their 2013-14 season, West Side Story. Performances are on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00, and Sunday afternoon at 2:00. There’s more information here. This weekend also offers your first chance to see Theater 2020′s production of [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 16, 2014 12:32 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Food, Fun, Gardening, Kids, movies, Music, Other Brooklyn, Religion

This will be the annual Sacred Sites Open House weekend presented by the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the participating religious institutions. It will give you the opportunity to visit and receive architectural and historical information about several local houses of worship, including the newly restored interior of Grace Church (photo). The local participating institutions, [...]

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Scouting NY Covers The French Connection, Brooklyn Heights

By on May 12, 2014 11:10 am in Arts and Entertainment, History, Movie shoots, movies

Plenty has been written about Moonstruck on Cranberry Street, how Luca Brasi went to sleep with the fishes in the Clark Street Hotel, and how the top floor of 10 Montague Terrace is the gateway to hell. But Brooklyn Heights also made cameo appearances in several other films, including William Friedkin’s The French Connection. Scouting [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions; Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 8, 2014 1:44 am in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Nature, Parents

The highlight of the weekend is the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual Landmark House and Garden Tour, to be held this Saturday, May 10 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.. Houses on display this year range from an 1820s vintage Federal style frame house (photo; by Judith Angel) to a condo in a recently converted parking garage. [...]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View 2014 Schedule Announced

By on May 6, 2014 10:59 am in brooklyn bridge park, Events, movies

Hail Freedonia!!

It’s the 15th year for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View which will kick off with the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup on July 10 on the Harbor View Lawn.

Full sked after the jump.

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The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival May 7-11

By on May 4, 2014 4:28 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Fun, movies

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival returns for a week of “Brooklyn‐born, Brooklyn-based and Brooklyn-centric films,” with many screened at Brooklyn Heights Cinema and St Francis College’s Founder’s Hall. Highlights include Bodies in Irreversible Detriment, starring Breaking Bad‘s Mark Margolis, and New York Dolls’ David Johansen; Balance, starring Stephen Baldwin; and Spoke: A Short Film [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 1, 2014 7:36 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Food, Fun, movies, Music

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn will present two performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a cantata composed in 1935-36, based on medieval poems, that has become one of the world’s most recognized pieces of “classical” music, and has been covered by, among many others, the Swedish metal group Therion and by Nas and Puff [...]

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