The Heights Players continues its 60th year “Diamond Anniversary” season with its production of Mame this weekend. Performances are at 8:00 p.m. Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, and at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, at the Playhouse, 26 Willow Place (between Joralemon and State). There’s more information here and you can reserve tickets here. Mame […]
Archive | October, 2015
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
“Fix & Fortify” post-Sandy repair work continues in the A/C line’s East River tunnel this weekend. From 11:45 p.m. Friday, October 16 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, October 19, A and C trains running in both directions will be diverted to the F line between Jay Street-Metro Tech and West 4th Street. For A/C stops in […]
Arthur Miller Centennial at St. Francis
Former Brooklyn Heights resident, Pulitzer and multiple Tony award winner Arthur Miller (1915-2005), remembered for his plays The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, The Misfits, A View From the Bridge and many others, will be the subject of a centennial conference at St. Francis College this weekend. While tickets to the event, which includes a […]
Friend of a Farmer Near Opening
Update: Sign on the door today (Monday) says “7 days and counting.” Walking home along Montague Street this afternoon your correspondent noticed that the paper had been removed from the windows of 76 Montague Street, indicating that the long awaited opening of Friend of a Farmer at that location will be happening soon. There was […]
Fireworks Tomorrow Night
There will be a fireworks display tomorrow (Monday, October 12) starting at 10:20 p.m. The fireworks will be launched from a barge in the Hudson between Ellis Island and the Battery, so should be visible (and certainly audible) from Brooklyn Heights. The sponsor is Briggs Inc.
Coming Up at Brooklyn Bridge Park
This week’s Wednesday Night Tour has been moved to Thursday evening, October 15. The topic is “Bringing the Park to Life”, and it will be conducted by Regina Myer, President of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, who will tell “the story of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s creation and innovative approach to revitalizing urban spaces” while showing […]
Tell Us, Daily News, When Did Johnson Street Become Part of Brooklyn Heights?
Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy in today’s Daily News, report that a 14 year old boy who had earlier been involved in ” a brutal attack on another teen while riding a Brooklyn bus” was, on Monday charged with illegal weapons possession for trying to bring a pistol into school (the chronology of the Daily […]
Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society Next Week
It’s been called “Lavender Lake”, it’s still a Superfund site, but its banks are now also a development site, as they were in the 19th century. At Brooklyn Historical Society on Tuesday evening, October 13, at 7:00 Joseph Alexiou will discuss his new book, Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal. This event is presented in partnership with […]
District 13 Re-Zoning & Kindergarten Admissions: What Parents Need to Know
RE-ZONING VOTE DELAYED: Turns out what was thought to be the “Official Re-Zoning Proposal” (presented to a panel of District 13 CEC members on September 30th) was actually, not. WNYC’s Schoolbook reports the DOE has extended the re-zoning timeline for two months. (The CEC confirmed the change came mere hours before their Working Session Meeting […]
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