A building in the north Heights reports that on separate occasions this week, a man sitting in a dark-colored car in front of the building attempted to gain entry by claiming that he was here to see a friend or his girlfriend, though he was unable to name the apartment number. He did gain entry […]
Archive | 2017
Bargemusic This Weekend
Jazz fans are in for a treat this Friday evening, December 8, at 8:00, when, at Bargemusic: Composer/pianist Jed Distler [photo] reimagines and reinterprets iconic jazz innovator Thelonious Monk’s complete songs in a concert length solo piano tour-de-force to celebrate Monk’s 2017 centenary. On Saturday evening, December 9 at 8:00, and again on Sunday afternoon, […]
RIP Rocco Scali, “The Barber of Brooklyn Heights”
Reader Martin Schneider sends us this sad news, as originally reported by him in the Brooklyn Heights Press: Rocco Scali, the legendary hair cutter who served Brooklyn Heights since 1958 and whose regular customers famously included Truman Capote, Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer along with many hundreds of long-time Heights residents, died Sunday, November 26 […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
Once again, this coming weekend — 10:45 PM today (Friday, December 1) to 5:00 AM Monday, December 4 — there will be no 2 and 3 train service (meaning no service at Clark Street or on the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall), which will be a fact of life every weekend until sometime next summer. […]
This Saturday, Shakespeare for Your Wee Bards
Do you have a budding thespian on your hands? Mary Frost of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports Child’s Play NY, an ensemble of classically trained actors and teaching artists “will perform a free performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” on Dec. 2 in Brooklyn Heights at St. Francis College. The performance will be followed by […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
On Friday, December 1 at 8:00 p.m. Bargemusic will present the Aspen String Trio (photo), along with pianist Rita Sloan, performing works by Mozart and Schumann. Saturday evening, December 2 at 8:00 a stellar group of musicians, led by pianist Alexander Peskanov, will perform works by Debussy, Barber, Alicia Jonas, and by Mr. Peskanov himself. […]
Silhouette Artist At Brooklyn Women’s Exchange This Weekend
Silhouette artist Deborah O’Connor will be at the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 55 Pierrepont Street (between Henry and Hicks) Friday, December 1 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Her last appointment on Sunday will begin at 4:00 p.m. Silhouette portraitist Deborah O’Connor cuts […]
Vacant Retail Spaces: Why? What, If Anything, Can Be Done?
You would have to have been in Brooklyn Heights for over five years to remember when the last tenant, Starbucks, moved out of 112 Montague Street (photo) to a smaller space a block away. Since then, apart from being used as storage space for Lassen & Hennigs next door, the space has lain fallow. While […]
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