Archive | December, 2015

Get A Warm Fuzzy: Shop on Montague Street this Holiday Season, Donate Scarves, Hats & Gloves for the Needy

The Montague Street Business Improvement District (BID) invites you to donate unwrapped, gently-used hats, scarves and gloves at designated drop boxes located at our neighborhood’s local businesses and restaurants.  The holiday giving program, DROP SHOP EXPERIENCE TASTE, got underway on #SmallBusinessSaturday on November 28th and runs through December 28th. So far the program has collected […]

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Open Thread Wednesday

What’s on your mind? Comment away!

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First Presbyterian Presents “Breakfast With Santa” Saturday

This Saturday, December 19, First Presbyterian Church, 124 Henry Street (between Clark and Pierrepont), presents “Breakfast With Santa”, a “family friendly, stress-free visit with Santa.” There will be pancakes, Christmas music, crafts for the kids, and photos with Santa. There are two seatings, 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Tickets are $10 per person or $40 […]

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Full City Council May Vote on Library Deal Tomorrow; City Officials, Civic Group Voice Opposition

Update (!2/16): The full City Council voted 45-1 to approve the library deal today. DNA Info reports that the full City Council “is expected to vote” tomorrow (Wednesday, December 16) on the deal to replace the existing Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library with a new, slightly smaller library located on the same […]

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Grace Chorale Performs Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at St. Ann Sunday Afternoon

This Sunday afternoon, December 20, starting at 3:00 at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets, Grace Chorale of Brooklyn (photo) will perform J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248. Bach lovers will enjoy a selection from the six cantatas of The Oratorio, composed in 1734. Although intended for performance in church […]

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Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society This Week

Tomorrow evening–Monday, December 14, from 6:30 to 9:00–Brooklyn Historical Society will present, as part of its “Activism in Film” series, a screening of the film The Times of Harvey Milk, with a discussion following the screening, led by Stuart Milk, LGBT activist, founder and president of the Harvey Milk Foundation, and nephew of Harvey Milk. […]

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A Peek Inside Pier House

Curbed gets a tour of the recently opened model in Pierhouse. The model unit is a duplex-style apartment, like several others in the building, and is located on the fifth floor of the larger of the two residential buildings, 90 Furman Street. (The other is located at 130 Furman Street.) The interiors showcase the minimalist […]

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CEC Sets Date for Re-Zone Vote, Debates Pros & Cons of Proposal

The District 13 CEC held a Working Session meeting this past Tuesday night.  Several items were on the agenda but the merits of the P.S. 8 and P.S. 307 re-zoning proposal was by far the longest and most multi-faceted debate of the evening. First, members approved a special session for the re-zoning vote.  The vote […]

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Brooklyn Historical Society Honors Gina Ingoglia Weiner With Space and Fund For Exhibitions

Gina Ingoglia Weiner, late of Brooklyn Heights, served on the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Historical Society from 1990 to 2015. She was active in many civic associations, the author of over eighty children’s books, and a highly regarded artist and garden designer. To honor her memory, BHS has named an exhibition space (photo) […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

This Saturday afternoon, December 12 at 3:00, at the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, will Present “A Radio Christmas Carol”, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, by David Fuller and performed as a one hour Radio Play, complete with […]

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