Bargemusic gets the weekend going on Friday evening, April 14 at 8:00 with a concert of Chopin by pianist Jeewon Park (photo). On Saturday evening, April 15 at 8:00 works by Bach, Peskanov, Schubert, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Peskanov/Lourdes Lobo will be performed by Lu Ann Peskanov on flute and Alexander Peskanov on piano. The Sunday […]
Archive | April, 2017
Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society
Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, April 12, at 6:30, the Brooklyn Historical Society will present a screening of part one of Ken Burns’s documentary, Jackie Robinson. This film focuses on Robinson’s early life, from his childhood in Georgia through his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It will be introduced by co-directors, producers, and writers Sarah Burns […]
Floating Restaurant on Sailing Vessel Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Brooklyn Paper reports that restaurateur Alex Pincus plans to open an upscale, seafood oriented restaurant on an historic sailing vessel that will be moored to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier Six, locared near the Park’s Atlantic Avenue entrance. The identity of the vessel hasn’t been revealed, but Pincus already has a restaurant, Grand Banks, operating […]
Welcome back to Squibb Park Bridge
Brooklyn Paper reported today that just in time for spring, the Squibb Park Bridge will re-open. Repairs on the long-shuttered, trampoline-like walkway that connects the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to the Brooklyn Bridge Park are finally finished, and park officials say they are just waiting on the paperwork so it can reopen, according to a rep for […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This weekend, from 11:45 PM tomorrow, Friday, April 7, to 5:00 AM Monday, April 10, there will be no service in either direction at Clark Street or at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. 5 trains, which don’t normally serve Brooklyn on weekends, will provide alternative service to and from Manhattan and to or from […]
Pier Six Towers Court Hearing Set for Wednesday, April 12
The already twice delayed hearing on the Brooklyn Heights Association’s lawsuit against the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation to prevent the construction of two high rise residential towers on the Pier Six uplands, near the park’s Atlantic Avenue entrance, is now scheduled for this coming Wednesday afternoon, April 12, at 2:30, at the New York State […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
On Friday evening, April 7 at 8:00 Bargemusic presents the wife and husband team of Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss (photo) doing four-handed piano performances of works by Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, and Barber. On Saturday evening, April 8 at 8:00, and again on Sunday afternoon, April 9 at 4:00, violinist Mark Peskanov, cellist Julian Schwarz, […]
Eric Landau Nominated for Brooklyn Bridge Park Presidency
The Eagle reports that Mayor de Blasio has nominated Eric Landau, who presently serves as deputy commissioner of public affairs and communications at the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, to be the new president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation. Before taking his post at DEP, Landau was vice president of government and external affairs […]
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