Appeals for Haiti have been many, but the need is great and continuing. This Saturday afternoon, February 20, Dan Cardona’s Martha Cardona Theater, which provided entertainment during last year’s Montague Street SummerSpace festival, will perform great hits of opera and musical theater at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Montague and Clinton Streets. Admission […]
Archive | February, 2010
Stench in Court Street Station?
We’ve received a reader complaint (I’ve deleted the comment, because it was off the topic of the post to which it was appended) that the Court Street subway station (M and R lines) “smells like a latrine.” Has anyone else noticed this?
BHS to Present Women’s History Seminar
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), will present a seminar on the topic “Listening to Women: Documenting Women’s Lives through Oral History”, on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30, beginning March 24 and ending May 5, with no session on March 31. This non-credit seminar will be taught by Sady Sullivan, […]
New Walking Tours of the North and South Heights Coming 2/28
BHB pal Rich at GothamSideWalks tells us he’ll be conducting two tours of the Brooklyn Heights on 2/28: 11:00, North Brooklyn Heights: Writers & Religion Explore this community’s controversial past through inspiring 19th church architecture, and the equally moving words of resident writers like Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer. Meet under the Columbus […]
What’s New at the WaMu? City Chemist!
A couple of folks have written us asking what’s going on at the old WaMu at Henry and Montague Streets. “DB” writes: For the first time in a year, there were some people in the old Washington Mutual at Montague and Henry. Looked like they were taking measurements. Any word yet on what could be […]
Brooklyn Heights’ Rabbi Simcha Will Show You How to Make a Nice Kosher Pickle
Tonight (2/16) at Pratt Chapel Hall at 8pm BHB pal/Brooklyn Heights resident Rabbi Simcha Weinstein will show folks how to make Kosher pickles and explain just what makes those yummy snacks Kosher in the first place.
Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Featured on Brooklyn Independent TV
This is the second in a series of short pieces that Brooklyn Independent Television made recently about Heights people and institutions (disclosure: your correspondent’s wife volunteers at the Exchange and is one of the speakers in this piece). The Exchange is located at 55 Pierrepont Street, between Henry and Hicks. There’s more to come in […]
Park Architect to Speak at BHA Annual Meeting
Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, FAAR, principal landscape architect for the portion of Brooklyn Bridge Park under construction below the Heights, will be the keynote speaker at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting, to be held at Plymouth Church, entrance on Orange Street between Henry and Hicks, on Tuesday, February 23, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Refreshments […]
Vote for the Best Snowpocalypse Photo
We had many great entries in our Snowpocalypse Photo Contest. We’ve picked some of the best, now it’s your turn to help us pick the winner. Comment below! More photos after the jump.
Brooklyn’s Next Boomtown is Next Door
According to Rich Calder in The New York Post, to find Brooklyn’s newest hot residential area, you need only cross Cadman Plaza or Court Street between Tillary Street and Atlantic Avenue:
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