Grab your partner! Do Si Do! Down Home Radio and The Jalopy Theater present the 8th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church starting today, Friday, April 8th through Sunday, April 10th. Per the event’s website, “The 3-day festival includes 30 bands, vocal and instrumental workshops, a family-friendly square dance and swing dance, jam […]
Archive | April, 2016
Silhouette Artist at Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Next Weekend
Silhouette artist Deborah O’Connor will be at the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 55 Pierrepont Street (between Henry and Hicks) this coming Friday, April 15; Saturday, April 16; and Sunday, April 17, during regular store hours. Her silhouette portraits of children or pets are priced at $35 each, with duplicates available for $15 each. The silhouettes are […]
Mark Baker, Brooklyn Heights Resident, Elected Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Chairman
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has announced the election of Brooklyn Heights resident Mark Baker as chairman of the Conservancy’s Board of Directors. He succeeds Nancy Bowe, another Heights resident, who has served for the past five years. Baker was for some years a member of the Dewey Ballantine law firm, where he practiced corporate […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
It’s a weekend of heavy disruption. From 11:45 p.m. Friday, April 8 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, April 11 there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 trains will terminate and originate at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall in Manhattan, and 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn on weekends […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble at First Unitarian Friday Evening
This is a big weekend for music in Brooklyn Heights. On Friday evening, April 8, at 8:00 (a pre-concert talk will begin at 7:15) at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will present “Capriccio Stravagante/A Musical Portrait of the Exuberant […]
Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble at Congregation Mount Sinai Sunday Afternoon
This Sunday afternoon, April 10 at 4:00, Congregation Mount Sinai, 250 Cadman Plaza West, at Tillary Street, will present “Making the Music Our Own”, a concert by Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble. The Ensemble has been described as “an imaginative and tight quintet that melds the melodic & rhythmic commonalities among Jazz, Hebraic, Afro-Caribbean & Brazilian […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
This Friday evening, April 8, at 8:00 Bargemusic will present a “Here and Now” concert, featuring pianist Geoffrey Burleson (photo) performing works by Saint-Saëns, Yehudi Wyner, James Primosch, David Rakowski, Missy Mazzoli, and his own composition. On Saturday evening, April 9 at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon, April 10, at 4:00, violinist Mark Peskanov, violist Kazuhide […]
BHA and CHA Want Answers on LICH Site Plans
As reported by The Eagle, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Cobble Hill Association have jointly sent a letter to NYU Langone seeking information concerning matters of interest to the communities. NYU is presently operating an emergency room at the Long island College Hospital site and is to develop, pursuant to an agreement with Fortis […]
A Look Inside Clinton’s Brooklyn Heights HQ
Have you wondered what it’s like inside Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters at One Pierrepont Plaza (photo)? AMNewYork sent reporter Jamie Reysen to what she describes as the “quirky” office suite. You can read her story, and see photos, here. Reysen asked how the location was chosen; one staffer noted that “it’s on Tillary Street and […]
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