“Fix and Fortify” post-Sandy repair work, though necessary, will deliver a double whammy to subway service in our neighborhood this coming weekend. From 11:45 p.m. Friday, March 11 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, March 14 there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 trains will terminate and […]
Archive | March, 2016
Meet Yungman Lee, Challenger to Incumbent Congresswoman Velazquez, at Friend of a Farmer Thursday Evening
NOTE: This post has been revised to reflect a change of venue. Yungman Lee (photo), lawyer, former state official, bank executive, and public health advocate, has declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes Brooklyn Heights. He is challenging Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, […]
Bach in the Heights Sunday, March 20
The Brooklyn Heights Association and Bach in the Heights will present choruses, arias, and chorales from J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on Sunday afternoon, March 20 at 3:00, at the Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, 125 Henry Street. The singers and orchestra will be conducted by Edward Houser; among the singers will be Metropolitan Opera […]
Learn About Indie Filmmaking at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday
This Saturday afternoon, March 5, from 3:00 to 4:00, Brooklyn independent filmmaker Jason Cusato (photo) will be at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s headquarters, 334 Furman Street (foot of Joralemon, just past the BQE overpass), where he will screen selections from his films When Broomsticks Were Kings and A Box Came to Brooklyn and discuss “the benefits […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
On Friday evening, March 4, starting at 8:00, Bargemusic will present violinist Daniel Kogan (photo) playing works by Bach, Bartok, Ysaÿe, and Paganini. On Saturday evening, March 5, at 8:00, pianist Craig Sheppard will play works by Shostakovich. On Sunday afternoon, March 6, at 4:00, pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens will perform works by […]
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, March 4 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, March 7, 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 […]
Slain Texas Police Officer Was St. Ann’s School Graduate
Officer David Hofer, 29, of the Euless, Texas police force, who died in an ambush on Tuesday, “grew up in Brooklyn” and served on the NYPD before moving to Texas, according to the Daily News, which also notes that he “graduated from St. Anne’s [sic] High School in Brooklyn” and then from NYU. Reader “Willowtown […]
Heights Players’ Production of Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women Opens This Weekend
This weekend (Friday evening, March 4 and Saturday evening, March 5 at 8:00, and Sunday afternoon, March 6 at 2:00) and for the following two weekends on the same schedule, the Heights Players will present their production of Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 Broadway hit, The Women, “a highly acerbic commentary on the pampered lives of […]
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