The Repast Baroque Ensemble returns to Brooklyn Heights this coming Saturday afternoon, January 20 with “Bird Fancier’s Delight.” Baroque composers were just as inspired by birds as birders are today, listening to the songs of nightingales, cuckoos, chickens, quail, and even the “dodo of love,” and incorporating them into their music. This program features works […]
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Repast Baroque Ensemble Returns to Brooklyn Heights with “Bird Fancier’s Delight”
Heather Wolf Leads Bird Walk Sunday; “Warbler Wednesday” Happy Hour at Estuary with Repast Baroque Ensemble
Heather Wolf, author of Find More Birds and Birding at the Bridge, will lead a bird tour in Brooklyn Bridge Park this Sunday morning, January 14. There are many species wintering in the Park. Ms. Wolf has recently seen these: Cooper’s Hawk, Gadwall, American Woodcock, American Kestrel, White-throated Sparrow, and Great Blue Heron. The tour […]
Announcing New Brooklyn Heights Blog Contributor Rafael “Raf” Perez!
Many (most?) of you already know and love Rafael “Raf” Perez, the last owner of Mr. Video III and currently a resident and Superintendent on Monroe Place. Raf is Brooklyn Heights through and through, having grown up here and never having left. How many people still here can say they graduated from PS8? We’re thrilled Raf […]
The BHB Ten 2023: The Most Notable People of Brooklyn Heights This Year
It’s that time, for our annual list of ten people or groups of people living or working in Brooklyn Heights, who made an impact on our neighborhood, the city, the country, or the world this year. With input from everyone at BHB, here in no particular order (actually after the first three groups, alphabetically listed), are The […]
Happy New Year!
2023 has given us more than an easily expected share of disasters and disfunction: a horrific war in the Middle East along with a continued one in Ukraine; near gridlock in Congress; tempestous weather. We at Brooklyn Heights Blog can celebrate the arrival of two new contributors: Caroline Koster, who joined us in September, and […]
Do You Hear What I Hear? Two Chances this Weekend—and a Few More Before Christmas– to Hear Plymouth Church’s Delightful Minister of Music, Raymond Trapp—and Sing Along Too
Before I ever met Raymond Trapp, I asked him a favor. I was hoping he could help me with a sing-along after the 175th Anniversary celebration dinner of Plymouth Church last November. He was the recently-named interim Minister of Music. “Just a few songs, we could sing around the piano,” I’d said. He quickly agreed. […]
Grace Church Celebrates 175th Anniversary
This morning Grace Church, 254 Hicks Street (corner of Grace Court) celebrated the 175th anniversary of the first service held in its building, which was on December 10, 1848. The service, officiated by The Reverend Dr. Allen F. Robinson, fifteenth Rector of Grace, shown preaching in the phoro above. used the same liturgy and music […]
Theater 2020 Presents “A Radio Christmas Carol” at Brooklyn Heights Library Saturday
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ award winning live theater company, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library, will present “A Radio Christmas Carol,” an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic, this Saturday, December 9, at 2:00 p.m. at the Brooklyn Heights branch of BPL, 286 Cadman Plaza West. The event is free, and no registration is […]
Lighting of Giant Menorah in Columbus Park Thursday Evening
Chabad of Brooklyn Heights will present a lighting of the giant menorah in Columbus Park, across Court Street from the intersection with Montague, on the first evening of Chanukah, Thursday, December 7, starting at 5:00 PM. There will also be a concert by Israeli singer Gad Elbaz. It’s free, and all are welcome. Photo: Kathryn […]
For Barbra Fans: Center for Brooklyn History Presents a Panel Discussion of Her Book, Followed by a Musical Tribute
Brooklyn native Barbra Streisand’s “chatty and candid” (the New York Times) autobiography, My Name Is Barbra, is the subject of a panel discussion, moderated by filmmaker Ethan Fuirst with panelists Maris Kreizman, Soraya Nadia McDonald, and Jonathan Tolins at the Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) this Wednesday, December 6 from […]
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