Brooklyn Heights Blog

Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee will hold their annual Kids’ Halloween Parade this Saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. at Pierrepont Playground, Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights. More details are available at the BH Playgrounds website.

For a full list of Halloween fun, check out Cobble Hill Blog.

Perfect Paws and the Friends of Hillside Dog Park held their annual Howl-o-Ween Doggie Parade today (10/25) on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. BHB publisher Homer “Shaky Cam” Fink was there and caught the parade on video. The Phantom of the Opera was today’s overall winner and Giuseppe the airplane (and his pilot Matthew) won for best group.

We’re sure Hillside’s Matthew Parker will have more details here soon as well.

Proceeds of the parade go the the following charities:
• Friends of Hillside Dog Park
• Animal Kind, a no-kill cat shelter
• Blue Rider Stables, a therapy horse stable
• Brooklyn Animal Foster Network

More info at the Perfect Paws website.

Full list of winners at the Brooklyn Eagle.

The “Brooklyn Utopias” art exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society, or at least one of the works included, inspired a lively discussion here. This Sunday, October 25, from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M., the Society, located at 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), will hold a roundtable discussion in which artists whose works are in the exhibit, and the exhibit’s curator, will debate the ideas motivating the art works with a panel of architects, urban planners, and community leaders. The event is free and open to the public.

Photos courtesy of Chelsea Mauldin/BID.

Yesterday was the second annual Pumpkin Day on Montague Street, hosted by the Montague Street Business Improvement District (BID). BID distributed free pumpkins to Montague Street businesses for display, with the help of Marty Markowitz, BID’s board of directors, and local middle school students. Over 50 Montague Street businesses are now ready for Halloween.

It’s the second Wednesday of the month, and you know what that means: Community Board time! Tonight’s meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at Congregation Mount Sinai at 250 Cadman Plaza West, between Tilary and Clark Streets. Presentations include information about the launch of the Fulton Street Business Improvement District and information about a new visitor’s center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

As the weather gets crisper, your dog obsessed neighbors’ thoughts turn to the annual Howl-o-Ween Doggie Charity Costume Parade and Contest, organized by Perfect Paws and Friends of Hillside Dog Park.

This year, the event will be held on Sunday, October 25th at 1pm, beginning at the Remsen Street entrance to the Promenade.

It’s free to attend the parade, but if you want to enter your dog the cost is $25. All proceeds will be donated to nonprofit animal  causes, including a portion to Friends of Hillside Dog Park, Inc., which is the nonprofit that advocates for Hillside.

To the amazement and bewilderment of tourists and locals alike, the parade will march to the north end of the Promenade then cross the street at the corner of Columbia Heights and Middagh Street where a team of local celebrity judges will review the contestants starting around 2:00pm.

Fun will be had by all, including prizes and doggie bags for contestants. If you’ve participated in the past, you know what a blast it is. If you’ve never joined, come on down and have a good time.  We’ll have the usual contingent of costumed adults and kids, dolled up dogs, and drag queens.

The costumes are always imaginative and usually hysterical. It’s a fun way to spend a few hours on a Sunday afternoon in the Heights.

Following the judging and the prizes, all contestants and their humans are welcome to burn off the stress of competition at Hillside Dog Park.

Tickets are now available at Perfect Paws at 102 Hicks Street, the corner of Pineapple Street. Tel: (718) 852-6200

You must purchase your ticket at least a day before the event to register your dog.

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn will be performing Saturday night at St. Ann + the Holy Trinity Church (157 Montague Street). Creative Director Eli Spindel will lead the Orchestra in Bach’s Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, k. 546, and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. The concert begins at 8pm and tickets are $10.

The Brooklyn Bugle gang including your pals from Brooklyn Heights Blog and Cobble Hill Blog will be out in full force this Sunday (10/4) at the Atlantic Antic. Our tent will be stationed in front of the Atlantic Bookshop between Court and Clinton Streets.  We’ll have limited edition Bugle T-shirts that feature a cool Brooklyn Bugle logo remix by Brooklyn Tattoo’s Adam Suerte (while supplies last!!).

Stopping by the big tent — BHB Ten members Melanie Hope Greenberg (10:30am - 11am) and SNL writer Simon Rich (1pm).

Greenberg will be hosting a storytime for kids at 10:30 am - children of all ages are welcome!

Rich and his writing partner/ New Yorker cartoonist Farley Katz will stop by the tent at 1pm to meet and greet fans.  Their New York Superheros cards will be on sale in our tent from 1pm - 2pm.

We’ll be taking photos, shooting video and live blogging from the Antic as well.  Stop by and say hello!

See you Sunday!

The DUMBO Arts Center presents its thirteenth annual Art under the Bridge festival, beginning tomorrow evening, September 25, and continuing through Sunday, September 27. According to DAC’s press release:

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

Locations and times of the various art projects can be found here. Many DUMBO based artists will be opening their studios to visitors. A list of these artists and their studio locations is here.

The Brooklyn Historical Society, in conjunction with Kea Carpets and Kilims, is holding a sale of antique carpets and tribal kilims this weekend to raise funds for the Society. There will be an opening reception this Thursday evening, September 24, featuring a lecture by Kea owner Susan Gomersall. From the Society’s press release:

Join BHS and Kea Carpets & Kilims for a Weekend Sale of Kea’s antique carpets and tribal kilims. Kea’s magnificent carpets come from across the globe. On September 24-27 Kea will transform the first floor of BHS into an elegant and eclectic international bazaar. Feel good about updating your home’s look with a new carpet from the sale, because proceeds will benefit the Brooklyn Historical Society!

Opening Night Reception: Thursday, September 24, 6:00—8:00 pm featuring an informal lecture on tribal carpets by Kea owner Susan Gomersall. Sale continues: Friday, Sept. 25—Sunday, Sept. 27 during regular BHS hours.

BHS is located at 128 Pierrepont Street, at the southwest corner of Pierrepont and Clinton. It is open Wednesday-Friday and Sunday 12-5 P.M., and Saturday 10 A.M.-5 P.M.