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Heather Wolf Leads Bird Tour in Brooklyn Bridge Park Sunday

Heather Wolf, author of Find More Birds and Birding at the Bridge, will lead a bird tour in Brooklyn Bridge Park this Sunday morning, December 1. She says: Let’s find some birds! Winter is approaching and cool ducks and geese are arriving. And my favorite bird, the White-throated Sparrow [photo] is singing! Birds that may be seen on […]

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A (Television) Teacher’s A+ Sunday List

I always enjoy the New York Times feature on how famous-ish folk spend their Sundays, although I often don’t always buy its breezy curated pseud0-glamour and am sometimes a smidge jealous of all that hi-low routine and relaxation.  But, finally getting to the weekend pages a few days late this week, I stumbled onto one I can relate […]

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Fall Festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park Tomorrow

Tomorrow (Saturday, October 19) the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, along with In The Raw, will present “Sound & Color! Autumn in New York,” a fall festival that will feature “live musical performances, food vendors, kids activities, arts and crafts, field games and more—including our signature pumpkin patch [photo].” It will take place on Pier Six; enter from […]

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ONE°15 Marina in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina (photo, as seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade), along with its affiliated Estuary restaurant, its Sail Club, and the holding entity One Edge Marina Finance Company, have entered a reorganization proceeding under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. “A chapter 11 debtor usually proposes a plan of reorganization to keep its business alive and pay creditors […]

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Fall Migration Has Begun! Heather Wolf Presents Two Bird Walks in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Birds have begun their annual fall southward migration, and many kinds of them, including the Alder Flycatcher, photographed by your correspondent during a fall migration bird walk seven years ago, will be traveling through Brooklyn Bridge Park. That 2017 walk was led by Heather Wolf, author of Birding at the Bridge and now of Find More Birds. She has scheduled two fall […]

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Mark Morris Dance Group at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday

This coming Saturday, August 3 , the Mark Morris Dance Group (photo) will be at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn for “an all-ages family-friendly workshop” and “a special, outdoor performance.” The workshop begins at 2:00 PM, where all ages and abilities are invited to dance with Mark Morris Dance Group. It will be followed by their performance […]

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Free Concert at Brooklyn Bridge Park – Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey – Sat. July 27th at 6 pm

FREE CONCERT | JULY 27 | 6PM | RAIN OR SHINE EMILY WARREN ROEBLING PLAZA UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE featuring Lara Downes, Time for Three, Christian McBride, Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, Arturo O’Farrill, Orchestra Elena & Aram Demirjian St. Ann’s Warehouse, WNYC, and Brooklyn Bridge Park present Rhapsody for This Land: The American Odyssey in Music, […]

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“Movies With A View” Starts Tomorrow Evening With “Past Lives”

This summer’s Movies With A View, presented by Pluto TV, begins tomorrow evening, Thursday, July 11, with Past Lives. This film follows Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, who are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and […]

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Metropolitan Opera at Brooklyn Bridge Park Thursday Evening

This Thursday evening, June 20, from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Harbor View Lawn on Pier One, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Metropolitan Opera will present a free concert featuring soprano Leah Hawkins (photo by Kerry Hallihan), tenor Mario Chang, and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel, accompanied on piano by Met assistant conductor Dmitri Dover.

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Theater 2020 Does “Family Friendly” Adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Tempest”

David Fuller (photo), Brooklyn Heights resident and, with his wife Judith Jarosz, co-Artistic Producing Director of the award winning Theater 2020, has done a 75 minute “family friendly” adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A new 75-minute adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy about revenge, redemption and forgiveness. Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, has been marooned on […]

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