The Spanish bluebells (Hyacinthoides hispanica), of which there are many on Piers 1 and 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park, are beginning to bloom (see maps for locations here). So, just like last year, BBP is having a contest for the best bluebell photos. Contest details are here.
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Brooklyn Historical Society Logging Superstorm Sandy Stories
The Brooklyn Historical Society is looking to collect “survivor stories” from Superstorm Sandy as part of a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Heights destination. Historians are searching for residents of diverse ages, ethnicities and occupations from shoreline neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island to talk about their experiences during and after the hurricane. The […]
Quick! Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Photoville/United Photo Industries Calls For Submissions
Photoville sponsor United Photo Industries, whose rustic pop-up village of shipping containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces returns September 19–29, and will be previewed by “The Fence,” (which drew 1 million visitors over 10 weeks in 2012), announces it has a very last minute public art opportunity to find between 14-22 (Brooklyn-based) photographers whose series […]
Fall Photoville Pop-Up Village Previews With Summer 2013 Photo ‘Fence’
Photoville’s rustic pop-up village of shipping containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces, which “adorned” Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 3 last fall, will return September 19–29. And once again, “The Fence,” which drew 1 million visitors over 10 weeks in 2012, will return this summer. The deadline for Fence photo submissions is coming up—April 15. “Photographers […]
Friends Of Fallen Photojournalist Chris Hondros Bid To Name BBP Meadow In His Honor
Brooklyn Bridge Park wants help naming a new meadow located near Pier 6. Although park officials are suggesting it be deemed after a bird or flower, there’s a bid for it to be named “The Christopher Hondros Memorial Meadow,” in memory of the fallen war photographer and former DUMBO resident. The idea was first raised […]
Photographer/Writer Chris Arnade Discusses His ‘Faces Of Addiction’ Portrait Series
In an International Business Times profile, Arnade tells writer Charles Poladian about his journeys though Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Woodside, Jackson Heights, East New York, Flushing and Coney Island… as well as the site for “Faces” in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.
See his photos after the jump.
BHB Reader Profile: Lauren Jonik
Lauren Jonik, a BHB reader and sometime commenter, has an exhibit of her photographs on display at Vineapple, 71 Pineapple Street (between Henry and Hicks). The exhibit will be in place until the end of December. Jonik, a native of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, loves her adopted home, Brooklyn Heights, and delights in photographing its many architectural […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival will present Brooklyn Dynamics: Converging Lives on Film, a screening of three documentaries, at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), starting at 7:00 p.m. Friday (December 7). The films are: I Remember Barbra, reminiscences of Brooklyn born Barbra Streisand (photo) by those who have known […]
Heights Provides Consummate Media Image Of Lower NY’s Blackout
The consummate photograph that newspapers around the world are using to illustrate Lower Manhattan’s Monday night blackout from Hurricane Sandy—not surprisingly—was taken from our Brooklyn Heights Promenade. New York-based Associated Press photojournalist Bebeto Matthews took the pic, which has appeared in papers across the U.S., as well as New Zealand, Norway, France, Wales, Saudi Arabia, […]
Promenade Pic: Daisies At Dawn
Autumn daisies are keeping the Promenade colorful in mid-October, just inside the far entrance at Remsen Street. Here, early morning Tuesday, they soak in last night’s shower. (Photo: Chuck Taylor)
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