This coming weekend, from 11:45 p.m. Friday, January 1 t0 5:00 a.m. Monday, January 4, there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall. To get to or from lower Manhattan, use the 2, 3, A, C, R or (late night) N. For service to or from the interior […]
Archive | December, 2015
Yes, There Will Be New Years Eve Fireworks.
They just won’t be as close (or as earsplitting) as we’ve had for some years. At midnight, a fireworks display will be launched from a barge near Liberty Island. These will be easily visible (and heard) from the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and strategically placed Brooklyn Heights rooftops. This should draw some spectators from afar, […]
Christmas Tree Collection to Start Monday, January 4
Our friends at Community Board 2 let us know that Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia has announced that curbside pickup of Christmas trees will begin this coming Monday, January 4. City residents should remove all tree stands, tinsel, lights and ornaments from trees before they are put out for collection. Clean, non-bagged Christmas trees left on […]
Bargemusic Says: Celebrate New Year’s Eve With “Big Daddy” Bach
On Thursday evening, December 31, starting at 7:30 Bargemusic will present a New Year’s Eve Celebration featuring its President, Executive and Artistic Director Mark Peskanov on violin and Steven Beck (not Beck Hanson) on piano, performing sonatas by J.S. Bach (image). Considered by many the greatest composer in the Western canon, Bach was a cat […]
Questions, But No Answers, About the Squibb Hill Bridge
For the fourth time this year and fifth in the last 14 months, the New York Times reports on the still-closed path from Columbia Heights down to Brooklyn Bridge Park. The bridge has now been closed for nearly as long as it was open. And it has proved an embarrassment for officials of the park corporation, […]
Bargemusic Presents Bach by Beck on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve (Thursday, December 24) starting at 7:30 p.m., Bargemusic will present a Christmas Eve Celebration featuring pianist Steven Beck (photo) playing J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Tickets are $75 ($78.62 with service fee) and can be purchased here. There will also be a New Year’s Eve Celebration; more details later. Saturday afternoon, December 26, […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
It’s a repeat of last weekend and this week: this coming weekend (11:45 p.m. Friday, December 25 to 5:00a.m. Monday, December 28) and late nights the following week (!1:45 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. each night Monday, December 28 to Thursday, December 31) there will be no Manhattan bound service at Court Street or at the […]
Will Derelict 100 Clark, at Monroe Place, Finally be Rebuilt?
The Eagle reports that construction workers were seen jackhammering the sidewalk outside the derelict eyesore that is 100 Clark Street, at the corner of Monroe Place, on Friday. According to the Eagle story, George Arzt, a spokesman for the building’s owner, Newcastle Realty Services, said the workers were “doing preliminary sidewalk and shed work in […]
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