The 2024 Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, drew large crowds to St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church Friday evening through Sunday evening. It also created its share of excitement, as shown by the audience members up and dancing in the photo above, to the sound of Shiva Lakhan (at center on stage) and friends […]
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A Screening to “Undivide Us” in our Community — Inter-Faith Gathering to Battle Toxic Polarization
America is at a crossroads. Regardless of who wins the upcoming election, our house is still divided. How can we, the regular people, respond? Over 150 citizens gathered at Plymouth Church on Sunday, October 27 for a screening of “Undivide Us,” a documentary about combatting toxic polarization. The ecumenical event was also sponsored by inter-faith […]
Plymouth Church to Launch History Lecture Series with Talk by Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer
Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street (between Henry and Hicks) is inaugurating the Henry Ward Beecher Lecture Series “to inform a 21st Century audience of all ages on the history of the church, the history of New York City and Brooklyn, and the history of the United States.” Beecher, who served as Plymouth’s minister from its founding in 1847 […]
Happy Pride Month! Events to Commemorate and Celebrate Pride in and Around Brooklyn Heights
Pride Month honors the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 — the birth of the modern Queer Rights movement. In the 1950’s, Brooklyn Heights became the center of the City’s gay culture, with the first gay bar in Brooklyn, Tony Bonner’s Supper Club, opening at 80 Montague St. Read more about the Supper Club and see photos of the […]
Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Celebrates 170th Anniversary – Get Your Tickets to the Gala on Monday, June 3rd at 6 pm
The Brooklyn Women’s Exchange is celebrating 170 incredible years of supporting independent craftspeople from Brooklyn and beyond, and invites all to its 170th Anniversary Benefit Gala. Join us for our 170th Anniversary Benefit, taking place on Monday, June 3rd at St Ann’s Parish Hall (157 Montague St.). During this evening, we will pay tribute to […]
A 19th Century Real Estate Covenant has Shaped Brooklyn Heights and Incited Litigation
A very big hat tip to readers “Karen and Chad” for putting a link to this New York Times article, co-written by Brooklyn Heights Association President Jeremy Lechtzin and Times correspondent Aliza Aufrichtig, on last week’s OTW. The portrait, from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, is of Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont (the name was […]
Jeremy Lechtzin New Brooklyn Heights Association President
The Brooklyn Heights Association has announced that Jeremy Lechtzin is the new President of its Board of Governors. His President’s Message is here. According to the BHA: He is an architectural historian and technology lawyer. Jeremy focuses his history work on early Brooklyn, currently writing a data-driven analysis of every house built in Brooklyn Heights […]
47 Story Building to Rise at Montague and Cadman Plaza West
According to New York YIMBY developer Jonathan Landau has filed for permits to construct a 47 story mixed commercial and residential building at 205 Montague Street (see photo from Google Maps). While the building now there fronts on Montague, it extends along Cadman Plaza West to Pierrepont Street. It presently houses TD Bank’s branch. Word […]
Brooklyn Art Song Society Presents “February House” at First Unitarian Friday Evening
This Friday evening, March 1, the Brooklyn Art Song Society will present “February House”, a collection of songs by artists who lived at or were associated with the house at 7 Middagh Street, later demolished to make way for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which got its name from the fact that several of its inhabitants had […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Spoke at Plymouth Church 61 Years Ago, Calling for Peace and Brotherhood
In February of 1963 the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a guest sermon at Plymouth Church, then called Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn Heights. He spoke at the invitation of Plymouth’s then Senior Minister, the Rev. Dr. Harry Kreuner. In his sermon, which called for brotherhood and world peace, Dr. King […]
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