This in from the Brooklyn Heights Association: Please join us in commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the NYC Landmarks Law and historic district designation of Brooklyn Heights, by attending our 31st House & Garden Tour on Saturday, May 9. The houses on the tour will be open from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. BHA members may […]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
There’s lots of music in and around Brooklyn Heights this coming weekend (Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26). On Friday evening, starting at 8:00, Bargemusic will present pianists Timo Andres and David Kaplan playing works by Mr. Andres, Beethoven, and Brahms. On Saturday evening at 8:00 and again on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 the […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival Delights
Last weekend’s Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by Down Home Radio Show and Jalopy Theater, at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church presented a diverse and, on the whole, excellent group of musicians. Wyndham Baird (photo), just back from a tour of England and Scotland, sang a variety of folk and blues songs, accompanying himself […]
Coming Up at Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
On Tuesday evening, April 21, starting at 6:30 BHS will present a panel discussion, offered in partnership with Downtown Rising Working Group, featuring speakers from community advocacy organizations, developers, academic institutions, and others on the topic “The Rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn: Ten Years Later.” The panel will explore the future of Downtown Brooklyn with the […]
Holocaust Commemoration at St. Francis College Thursday
This Thursday, April 16, starting at 11:10 a.m., there will be an observance of Yom HaShoah, commemorting the victims of the Holocaust, at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street (between Clinton and Court), featuring Rabbi Joseph Potasnik (photo), Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights, and Cantor Shira Lissek. Rabbi Potasnik will discuss […]
Coming Up at Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
Tickets are still available for tomorrow (Monday, April 13) evening’s talk by Cokie Roberts about her newly released book, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868, copies of which will be for sale at the event, which chronicles the increasing political empowerment women experienced through their new-found independence and importance during […]
Schumer to Deliver Keynote Address at Squadron’s Community Convention This Sunday
Brooklyn’s own U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer will give the keynote address at State Senator Daniel Squadron’s Community Convention this coming Sunday afternoon, April 12 from 2:00 to 5:00 at LES Prep High School, 145 Stanton Street (between Suffolk and Norfolk) in lower Manhattan (F train to the 2nd Avenue station). From Sen. Squadron’s office: We’ll […]
Senator Squadron’s 7th Annual Community Convention April 12
State Senator Daniel Squadron will hold his seventh annual Community Convention on Sunday, April 12 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Lower East Side Preparatory High School, 145 Stanton Street (between Norfolk and Suffolk streets). To get there, take the F train to the Delancey Street stop. The Senator alternates the site of his […]
Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn to Speak at Brooklyn Historical Society Monday
This coming Monday evening, March 23 (note: this event was previously scheduled for Thursday, March 5, but was postponed) starting at 6:30 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times op-ed columnist, and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, formerly with the Times where she also won a Pulitzer (she and Kristof won it jointly […]
Heights Author Elizabeth Gaffney at Brooklyn Heights Library Tuesday Evening
This coming Tuesday evening, March 17, from 6:30 to 8:00, Brooklyn Heights resident author Elizabeth Gaffney will have a book talk about her novel, When the World Was Young, the story of a young woman growing up in the Heights in the middle of the twentieth century. The event will take place in the Brooklyn […]
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