The Eagle reports that construction workers were seen jackhammering the sidewalk outside the derelict eyesore that is 100 Clark Street, at the corner of Monroe Place, on Friday. According to the Eagle story, George Arzt, a spokesman for the building’s owner, Newcastle Realty Services, said the workers were “doing preliminary sidewalk and shed work in […]
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Robert Furman’s Brooklyn Heights is a Trove of Information
Robert Furman’s (with contributions of photographs of historic Brooklyn Heights buildings by Brian Merlis) Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of America’s First Suburb is a massive–471 pages–attempt to encompass all that is significant in the history of our neighborhood. The subtitle provides a narrative arc, though an inverted one. It begins with a […]
Want to Make Music? Join the “Bell by Bell” March in DUMBO Monday Evening
The Brooklyn Paper reports that, as part of the annual Make Music Winter event, there will be a parade on Monday evening, December 21 from the DUMBO Archway, Water Street and Anchorage Place to Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Participants will be given color coded bells, and during the march “conductors” will raise colored […]
Times Profiles Taffera, Renovators of Many Brooklyn Heights Houses
According to this Times story, Robert Taffera and his younger brother Eric have renovated almost forty houses in Brooklyn Heights. The photo shows one of their works in progress, 77 Columbia Heights, at the corner of Cranberry. Local homeowners, those affluent enough to afford their services, compete for their approval. They can afford to pick […]
Rachel Antonoff on Brooklyn Heights: “[T]erminally casual. A little kooky.”
Fashion designer and Heights resident Rachel Antonoff, interviewed for Vice and asked how she would “[d]escribe the Brooklyn Heights style” answered: “Relaxed. Extremely casual, terminally casual. A little kooky.” Despite this ambiguous description, she says that, having lived here for one year, she considers it “the friendliest place on earth” and says “the weirdest thing” […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Bargemusic starts the weekend early with a concert this evening (Thursday, December 17) at 8:00 featuring pianist Assaff Weisman playing works by Schumann, Liszt, and Schubert. On Friday evening, December 18, at 8:00 there’s a concert with Latin flavor; works by De Falla, Piazzolla, Fernando Otero, Villa-Lobos, Granados, and Gnattali will be performed by Jason […]
First Presbyterian Presents “Breakfast With Santa” Saturday
This Saturday, December 19, First Presbyterian Church, 124 Henry Street (between Clark and Pierrepont), presents “Breakfast With Santa”, a “family friendly, stress-free visit with Santa.” There will be pancakes, Christmas music, crafts for the kids, and photos with Santa. There are two seatings, 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Tickets are $10 per person or $40 […]
Full City Council May Vote on Library Deal Tomorrow; City Officials, Civic Group Voice Opposition
Update (!2/16): The full City Council voted 45-1 to approve the library deal today. DNA Info reports that the full City Council “is expected to vote” tomorrow (Wednesday, December 16) on the deal to replace the existing Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library with a new, slightly smaller library located on the same […]
Grace Chorale Performs Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at St. Ann Sunday Afternoon
This Sunday afternoon, December 20, starting at 3:00 at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague streets, Grace Chorale of Brooklyn (photo) will perform J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248. Bach lovers will enjoy a selection from the six cantatas of The Oratorio, composed in 1734. Although intended for performance in church […]
Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society This Week
Tomorrow evening–Monday, December 14, from 6:30 to 9:00–Brooklyn Historical Society will present, as part of its “Activism in Film” series, a screening of the film The Times of Harvey Milk, with a discussion following the screening, led by Stuart Milk, LGBT activist, founder and president of the Harvey Milk Foundation, and nephew of Harvey Milk. […]
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