Archive | 2023

Open Thread Wednesday

What’s on your mind? Comment away! Photo: Martha Foley

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Lighting of Giant Menorah in Columbus Park Thursday Evening

Chabad of Brooklyn Heights will present a lighting of the giant menorah in Columbus Park, across Court Street from the intersection with Montague, on the first evening of Chanukah, Thursday, December 7, starting at 5:00 PM. There will also be a concert by Israeli singer Gad Elbaz. It’s free, and all are welcome. Photo: Kathryn […]

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For Barbra Fans: Center for Brooklyn History Presents a Panel Discussion of Her Book, Followed by a Musical Tribute

Brooklyn native Barbra Streisand’s “chatty and candid” (the New York Times) autobiography, My Name Is Barbra, is the subject of a panel discussion, moderated by filmmaker Ethan Fuirst with panelists Maris Kreizman, Soraya Nadia McDonald, and Jonathan Tolins at the Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) this Wednesday, December 6 from […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

It’s a heckuva mess this weekend: late Friday evening, December 1 to early Monday morning, December 4. It’s easier to list the trains that should be running normally in both directions at local stations: the 2 (although it will be running on a reduced schedule, every 12 minutes), 3, 4, (5 trains don’t serve Brooklyn […]

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Promenade Tree Lighting Ceremony Wednesday Evening, December 13

The ceremonial lighting of the holiday tree at the Montague Street entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, coordinated by the Brooklyn Heights Garden Club, will be on Wednesday, December 13, starting at 5:30 PM. Carolers from the Grace Chorale of Brooklyn will be there to provide holiday spirit. Afterwards, the carolers will proceed to the […]

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Open Thread Wednesday

What’s on your mind? Comment away!

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Confessions of a Failed Community Theater Fan—Finally Discovering the Heights Players

I am embarrassed to say that until this month, I was a newbie at The Heights Players. Oh, you too? Our delightful community theater spot on Willow Place, between Joralemon and State Streets. Just a left turn from the cobblestone path down to Brooklyn Bridge Park? No? Never heard of it? Heard of it, but […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

This coming weekend — late Friday evening, November 24 to early Monday morning, November 27 — the only late night service at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Brooklyn bound N trains, as Manhattan bound N trains will be re-routed to the Q line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal […]

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Open Thread Wednesday

Happy Thanksgiving! What’s on you mind? Comment away!

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Highlights of the Brooklyn Folk Festival 2023

The 2023 Brooklyn Folk Festival began on Friday evening, November 17 with a performance on the Main Stage in the Sanctuary of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church by the Down Hill Strugglers (photo above) consisting of (left to right): Eli Smith, organizer and host of the Folk Festival; Jackson Lynch; and Walker Shepard, […]

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