Fleet Week begins tomorrow, Wednesday, May 25, with a parade of ships that, starting at 11:30 a.m., will proceed from the Narrows up through New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park, up to the George Washington Bridge. The ships will then head back to their assigned docks: some at the Cruise […]
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Council Member Levin’s Town Hall Meeting Thursday Evening
City Council Member Stephen Levin will hold a Brooklyn Heights Town Hall this Thursday evening, May 26, from 7:00 to 9:00, in the Second Floor Community Room at 140 Cadman Plaza West. Update: Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and State Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon will also be there. Among the topics to be discussed are: (1) […]
Explore Brooklyn Bridge Park Meadows Wednesday Evening
Join Brooklyn Bridge Park Horticulture Supervisor Rashid Poulson and others for a tour of the meadows at Pier 1, Pier 6, Empire Fulton Ferry, and Main Street. The tour meets at the Pier 1 entrance to the Park, near the foot of Old Fulton Street at 6:30 Wednesday evening, May 25. Tickets are $10, or […]
Brooklyn Historical Society Events This Week
On Tuesday evening, May 24, at 6:30, multi-media journalist and author Amy Goodman, producer of Democracy Now!, and co-author David Goodman, will discuss the show, now in its twentieth year of shining “light on important issues that are overlooked by mainstream news coverage”, and their book by the same title. Admission is $5, or free […]
U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA Probing Library Deal
The Real Deal reports that U.S. Attorney Preet Brahrara and Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr. are looking into the deal under which the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (photo) was sold to developer Hudson Companies for demolition and redevelopment as a high rise mixed use residential and commercial building with a new […]
Repast Baroque Ensemble Performs Goldberg Variations At First Unitarian Tuesday Evening
On Tuesday evening, May 24, at 8:00, at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street (between Monroe Place and Clinton), the Repast Baroque Ensemble (photo) will perform J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The Goldbergs are usually played on solo piano; Repast will do a version arranged for chamber ensemble. Tickets are $35 […]
Bargemusic This Weekend
Tomorrow (Friday, May 20) evening at 8:00, Bargemusic presents pianist Adam Neiman playing works of Frederic Chopin (image). On Saturday evening, May 21, at 8:00 and on Sunday afternoon, May 22, at 4:00, the Aspen String Trio, along with pianist Rita Sloan, will perform works by Brahms. Details for each concert and buy tickets here. […]
Centa Promises Increased Police Presence And Vigilance At Park And In Heights
At Tuesday evening’s 84th Precinct Community Council Meeting, as expected, Deputy Inspector Sergio Centa (photo), the Precinct Commanding Officer, faced many questions about security in Brooklyn Bridge Park and on Brooklyn Heights streets, especially Joralemon, used by pedestrians going to and from the Park. He noted that his requests for additional officers to be assigned […]
City Argues Pier Six Towers Plan May Proceed Despite State Disapproval
Crain’s reports that City Hall has issued a statement to the effect that the planned development of two residential towers at Pier Six in Brooklyn Bridge Park, including an affordable housing component and space for a pre-school, may proceed despite its having failed to win the approval of the Empire State Development Corporation. According to […]
State Scuttles Pier Six Towers Plan; Park Execs Got Hefty Raises
Politico New York reports that the Empire State Development Corporation, controlled by Governor Andrew Cuomo and with authority over development at Brooklyn Bridge Park, has decided not to approve a proposed modification to the Park’s plan that would have allowed construction of two residential towers, including a substantial affordable housing component and a space for […]
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