Tomorrow evening — Friday, January 20 — starting at 8:00, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, in conjunction with Canada’s Gryphon Trio, will present a concert at the McKinney Chapel of First Unitarian Church, 121 Pierrepont Street. The concert will feature the world premiere of a violin, cello, and piano trio by composer and cellist Paul […]
Archive | January, 2023
MTA Gives Low Priority to Upgrade of York Street Station Called a “disaster waiting to happen”
As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, the MTA has made upgrading the York Street subway station in DUMBO, which serves the F line (and during what seem to be frequent route diversions, the A and C lines as well), “low on its list of priorities”. Asked why, at a Zoom town hall sponsored […]
Delay in BQE Truck Monitoring
As we noted two years ago, the State Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Senator Brian Kavanaugh and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, that was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, authorizing the City Department of Transportation to install weigh stations along the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that lies below Brooklyn Heights and its Promenade. […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — Friday evening, January 13 to Monday morning (Martin Luther King Day, January 16) — there are no planned cancellations or or route diversions directly affecting service at any local stations. The following week — late nights Monday, January 16 to Friday, January 20 — there will be no Brooklyn bound service at […]
Choral Concert Featuring Mozart’s “Requiem” at St. Ann’s Church Friday, February 10
On Friday, February 10, starting at 7:30 p.m., at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Nicassio, will present a concert featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (image) “Requiem” and also including “songs of grief and hope, with diverse selections ranging from Billy Joel’s ‘Lullaby’ to the […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The only planned service change directly affecting any local stations this weekend — late evening Friday, January 6 through early Monday morning, January 9 — is that 4 trains will not be serving Brooklyn in either direction. This means there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 5 trains do […]
Sahadi’s Recognized as a “Historic Business”
As reported by Kirstyn Brendlen in The Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Heights’ mecca for Middle Eastern and other delicacies, Sahadi’s, 187-189 Atlantic Avenue, has been included in New York State’s Historic Business Preservation Registry. What effect this might have on Sahadi’s future isn’t clear, but as of now all seems to be going well. The Brooklyn […]
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