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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 15, 2013 11:59 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Comedy, DUMBO, Election 12, Election 13, Events, Gardening, Government, Kids, Maritime, Nature, Obituaries, podcast, Red Hook, Religion, schools, Shopping

This coming weekend is a big one for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. On Sunday, the Park will celebrate the 130th anniversary of the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge with a marathon reading of Hart Crane’s epic poem The Bridge at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1 starting at 3:00 p.m. More details here. The [...]

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Willowtown Fair Next Saturday

By on May 11, 2013 11:20 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, Music, Pets

The Willowtown Association’s annual Willowtown Spring Fair will be next Saturday, May 18, from noon to 5:00 p.m. on Willow Place between Joralemon and State streets. This year’s fair will feature live music, food from Iris Cafe, a wine tasting by Waterfront Wines, baked goods and plants for sale, and lots of activities for kids, [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on May 9, 2013 3:30 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Other Brooklyn, Parents

The premier event this weekend is the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual House Tour, to be held on Saturday afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00. More information is here. The photo is by Heights resident and interior designer Judith Angel. On Sunday afternoon, starting at 1:00, the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a lecture and book signing [...]

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May Day Frolic: The Annual St. Ann’s Puppet Parade

By on May 1, 2013 1:34 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Dance, Events, Fun, Kids, schools

The annual St. Ann’s School Puppet Parade—Brooklyn Heights’ version of a kiddie Mardi Gras—made its way down Montague Street to the Promenade early Wednesday afternoon, on this May Day 2013. As usual, the street was filled with the rat-a-tat of percussion, alongside pint-size clowns, jugglers, 10-foot-tall marionette puppets, accompanied by hundreds of pre-school, primary, middle [...]

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BBP’s Swing Valley Reopens Saturday 4/27 At Pier 6

By on April 25, 2013 7:03 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Kids

The Swing Valley play area at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 will re-open Saturday, April 27 by noon. Swing Valley is the last section of the park to re-open since Superstorm Sandy swept through the area, “making the re-opening an important milestone in our storm recovery,” BBP notes. Flooding from Sandy damaged the Swing Valley [...]

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Zion Church Presents “Kids For Kids” Concert Next Saturday

By on April 21, 2013 10:27 pm in Arts and Entertainment, charity, Events, Kids, Music

Next Saturday, April 27, starting at 3:00 p.m., the Sunday School of Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, 125 Henry Street (between Clark and Pierrepont) is presenting “Kids For Kids,” a concert featuring vocal and instrumental performances by local kids to benefit local kids afflicted with pediatric cancers. The suggeated donation for admission is $10 for [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on April 18, 2013 10:43 am in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Environment, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Steel Magnolias, which will be playing Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at 26 Willow Place. On Saturday at noon, at the same location, Heights Players Theater for Children will present The Wizard of Oz, a “participation [...]

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Baby Brigade! Moms Plan Stroller Rally Saturday Against LICH Closing

By on April 12, 2013 1:45 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Commercial Real Estate, Events, Health, Legal, News, Parents

Here’s a new twist. Brownstone Brooklyn moms whose kids were born at Long Island College Hospital are planning a stroller a march Saturday, April 13, to protest its planned closing.

Cobble Hill mama Liz Holden tells the New York Daily News, “We are bringing out the baby brigade to save our hospital. We want folks to call the governor’s office. Cuomo can stop this.”

Read more on the Cobble Hill Blog. (Photo: NY Daily News)

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Spring Egg Hunt, Pierrepont Playground

By on March 30, 2013 11:09 am in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Kids, Photos

A sunny, if still a bit chilly, morning drew a crowd to the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee’s annual Spring Egg Hunt at Pierrepont Playground.

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

By on March 28, 2013 12:36 am in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, History, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

Theater 2020 will present a free reading of Oscar Wilde’s (photo) renowned romantic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in the first floor auditorium of the endangered Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West (at Tillary Street) on Saturday afternoon (March 30) starting at 1:30 p.m. Wilde, it seems, was [...]

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