In the latest Arts & Design section, the New York Times covers Brooklyn Historical Society’s exhibit Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie, a show that “really captures that time when Brooklyn Heights was not the wealthy place that it was in the mid-1800s, when it was the original suburbs, and certainly not the place it […]
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At Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
Tomorrow (Monday, July 18) evening at 6:30 the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a screening of the Academy Award nominated documentary Food, Inc., with an introduction by and post-screening discussion led by Saara Nafici, Executive Director of Added Value Farms. This event is in conjunction with BHS’s current exhibit Hidden in Plain Sight: Portraits of […]
Brooklyn Historical Society Receives Award; Upcoming Events
The Brooklyn Historical Society has announced that it has received a Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for its project, Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations. The project, which consisted of oral histories and public programs at the Society from 2011 to 2015, “examine[d] the history and experiences of […]
Panel on “Brownstone Brooklyn” at Brooklyn Historical Society Tomorrow Evening
Tomorrow evening (Thursday, July 7) at 6:30 the Brooklyn Historical Society will host a panel discussion, “Brownstone Brooklyn: Pioneers in the Gentrification Movement”, moderated by Jarrett Murphy, executive editor of City Limits, and featuring Suleiman Osman, author of The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, along with “Clinton Hill resident, filmmaker, and educator Walis Johnson, and Sandy […]
At Brooklyn Bridge Park This Week
In summer there are many events and activities at Brooklyn Bridge Park daily; see a list of ones next week here. Parents should note that on Tuesday morning, June 28, from 10:30 to 11:30 at the small granite prospect facing Pier 3, a Brooklyn Public Library librarian will read children’s stories as part of the […]
At Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
Tomorrow (Monday, June 27) evening at 6:30 p.m. Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan Handwerker, the immigrant from Poland who arrived in Brooklyn in 1912 practically penniless and with no English, “and went on to start a food empire that remains a household name a century later”, will be at Brooklyn Historical Society to screen and […]
Coming Up at Brooklyn Bridge Park
There’s a wealth of free events at Brooklyn Bridge Park starting tomorrow (Thursday) evening and extending through the weekend. On Thursday evening, June 23, starting at 8:00, park partner BAMcinemaFest presents a screening of Sara Jordenö’s film Kiki on the Harbor View Lawn, Pier 1. Admission is free; there will be “curated food” for sale. […]
Brooklyn Historical Society Events This Week
On Tuesday evening, May 24, at 6:30, multi-media journalist and author Amy Goodman, producer of Democracy Now!, and co-author David Goodman, will discuss the show, now in its twentieth year of shining “light on important issues that are overlooked by mainstream news coverage”, and their book by the same title. Admission is $5, or free […]
Brooklyn Historical Society Salutes Manischewitz Wine Tuesday Evening
If, like your correspondent, you’re–as they say–getting long in the tooth, you may remember a jingle, “Oh man oh Manischewitz, what a wine!” The ads are long gone, but the wine is still made. It’s no longer made in Brooklyn, as it was back in the day, but in Canandaigua, a pretty town at the […]
At Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
This Wednesday evening, March 2, starting at 6:30, the Brooklyn Historical Society, along with the Brooklyn Arts Council and Interfaith Center of New York, will present “The 5th Annual Brooklyn Folk Arts Day: Preserving and Demystifying Ritual and Ceremony in Brooklyn“. featuring interactive presentations of ritual practices from Guyana, Ghana, and India, followed by a […]
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