As Andy Furman reports in The Eagle (and thanks to ever alert reader Andrew Porter for the tip), St. Francis College is terminating its intercollegiate athletic programs, according to its Athletic Director, Irma Garcia, who is losing her job. In our post two years ago, when St. Francis announced its intention to sell its Brooklyn […]
Archive | March, 2023
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraig (Blessings of St. Patrick’s Day). You can be sure of a lively time this evening at The Custom House, 139 Montague Stret (between Clinton and Henry) or at O’Keefe’s Bar & Grill, 62 Court Stret (between Joralemon and Livingston). If you missed Theater 2020’s free reading of David Fuller’s The B’ard […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
There’s an old subway joke that “R” means “Rarely” and “N” means “Never.” This weekend — late night Friday, March 17 to early morning Monday, March 20 — it will be “Never” in both directions at Court Street and on the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech, as N and R trains will be diverted to […]
St. Ann’s Church Celebrates Women’s History Month with Talk About History of the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange
This coming Sunday, March 19 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM (preceded by a light luncheon at 12:30; the event is free and open to all) St.Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, corner of Clinton and Montague streets (enter at Clinton) will present, in recognition of Women’s History Month, a lecture, followed by discussion, about the […]
Key Food Montague Robbed by Knife Wielding “Surfing Dude”
As Mary Frost reports in the Eagle, last Monday, March 6, Ivan Aguello, co-owner of Key Food Montague, saw a strange man who “looked like a California surfing dude” (follow the link to Ms. Frost’s story to see photos) entering the store holding an empty shopping bag. Mr. Arguello kept an eye on him because […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Once again this weekend — late night Friday, March 10 to early morning Friday, March 13 — there will be no Manhattan bound service at High Street, as Manhattan bound A and C trains will be diverted to the F line between Jay Street-MetroTech and West 4th Street-Washington Square. During the day Saturday and Sunday […]
Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting 2023 Wrap-up
The Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting Extravaganza And Raffle for 2023 kicked off Wednesday night in a cozy 3rd floor church at Packer Collegiate Institute, an event this correspondent hadn’t attended in years (remember when we used to liveblog/tweet this thing?). Most of the excitement occurred in the opening moments of the BHA President Koren […]
Shakespeare on Death Row? Theater 2020 Presents Free Reading of David Fuller’s “The B’ard” Wednesday Evening
Perhaps some contemporary politicians would like to put him, or at least his works, there, as they contain some very direct references to sex; even interracial sex (see The Merchant of Venice I.i.88 ff.). Brooklyn Heights resident David Fuller, co-artistic director (along with his wife, Judith Jarosz) of Theater 2020, whose production of Stephen Sondheim’s […]
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