This weekend, from 11:45 p.m. Friday, April 1 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, April 4, A and C trains running in both directions will be diverted to the F line between Jay Street-Metro Tech and West 4th Street, so there will be no service in either direction at High Street. For service to or from Manhattan, […]
Archive | March, 2016
Heights Players’ Production of All the King’s Men Premieres This Weekend: Children’s Theater to Return
The Heights Players contnue their Diamond Anniversary season with their production of All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren, directed by Ed Healy, which opens this weekend. Performances will be at 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2, and a Sunday, April 3, 2:00 p.m. matinee, at the playhouse, 26 Willow Place. […]
Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Friday, April 8 Through Sunday, April 10
The Eighth Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival, sponsored by Jalopy Theatre and Down Home Radio Show, will take place at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets (except for the world famous banjo toss contest–see photo–which is held on the banks of the beautiful Gowanus Canal) starting Friday evening, April 8 and […]
Education Intel: Testing Forum Monday Eve & Upcoming Middle School Admissions Brainstorming Sessions
With initial signs pointing to the successful rezoning of P.S. 8 and P.S. 307, the CEC and DOE are turning their focus toward two pressing issues: standardized testing and the development of quality middle schools with equal access for all District 13 students. TESTING: April means one thing for 3rd through 8th grade students attending […]
Annual Pierrepont Playground Egg Hunt This Saturday, March 26
The annual Spring Egg Hunt, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee and the Brooklyn Heights Association will be this Saturday, March 26 starting at 10:00 a.m. (arrive early; there’s always a long line), at the Pierrepont Playground (entrance near Pierrepont Street and Columbia Heights). From the BHA website: Without any eggs-aggeration, a good time […]
At Bargemusic This Weekend
Tomorrow (Friday, March 25) evening at 8:00 the Quattro Mani Duo, consisting of pianists Steven Beck (photo) and Susan Grace, will play works by Poulenc, Schumann, Brahms, Crumb, and Corigliano. Concerts on Saturday evening, March 26 at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon, March 27 at 4:00 will feature works by Bach, Britten, and Tchaikovsky performed by […]
Love Thy Neighbor: Upcoming Vote to Fund Community Projects
It’s Participatory Budgeting time again and City Council Member Steve Levin wants to know how you would spend up to 1.5 million dollars of the city’s money. “These funds can go towards capital projects in our parks, our schools—or wherever else the residents of our district decide,” Council Member Levin explains via his Tumblr blog. Levin […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
It’s a three-peat! Just like the previous two weekends, from 11:45 p.m. Friday, March 25 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, March 28 there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 trains will terminate and originate at Bowling Green in Manhattan, and 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn […]
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