Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy in today’s Daily News, report that a 14 year old boy who had earlier been involved in ” a brutal attack on another teen while riding a Brooklyn bus” was, on Monday charged with illegal weapons possession for trying to bring a pistol into school (the chronology of the Daily […]
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Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society Next Week
It’s been called “Lavender Lake”, it’s still a Superfund site, but its banks are now also a development site, as they were in the 19th century. At Brooklyn Historical Society on Tuesday evening, October 13, at 7:00 Joseph Alexiou will discuss his new book, Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal. This event is presented in partnership with […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Tomorrow (Friday, October 9) evening at 8:00, Bargemusic will present Alexander Fiterstein on clarinet and Michael Brown on piano doing an eclectic mix of pieces classical and modern, including works by Leonard Bernstein (photo), Brahms, Mason Bates, Martinu, and Alamiro Giampieri. On Saturday evening, October 10, cellist Jeffrey Solow, pianist Doris Stevenson, and Bargemusic’s President, […]
Theater 2020 Presents Free Reading of Hart/Kaufman Classic George Washington Slept Here Saturday Afternoon
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will present as part of its “Hearthside Readings” program a free reading–not a staged production, but read by professional actors–of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play George Washington Slept Here on Saturday afternoon from 2:00 (doors open at 1:30) to 4:00 in the first floor […]
Some Scenes from Grace Church’s Blessing of the Animals
Your correspondent was at the Blessing of the Animals at Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights yesterday. This ceremony was in honor of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. This year there were no ornamental hens laying eggs on the chancel steps, or escaped tarantulas. Many live creatures were blessed, […]
“Slow Zone,” With Signs and Speed Bumps, Coming to Brooklyn Heights
As the Eagle reports (and as readers JoraleMan and RJG remind us, the City’s Department of Transportation is beginning to implement the “slow zone” for Brooklyn Heights that we reported in 2013 would be in place by next year. The map shows the locations of the “20 MPH Slow Zone” signs and speed bumps to […]
Post Reports Two Women Joggers Attacked in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Today’s New York Post reports that, on this past Monday evening at about 8:20 and 8:30 p.m. two women jogging in Brooklyn Bridge Park, one of whom gave the location as “near Pier 2″, were attacked by what may have been the same group of teenagers. One was punched in the head after saying she […]
Margaret Atwood, Novelist, Poet, and Literary Critic, at St. Francis College Next Friday
Margaret Atwood (photo), the multiple award winning Canadian novelist (The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and many others), poet, literary and social critic, inventor (the LongPen), and environmental activist will be at St. Francis College, Founders Hall, 180 Remsen Street next Friday evening, October 9, for a conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald, editor of BuzzFeed Books […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Want to have your pet blessed? This Sunday, October 4 is St. Francis of Assisi Sunday, and both Grace Church (photo) and St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church will have Blessing of the Animals services. St. Ann’s begins at 1:30 p.m., and Grace’s at 5:00 p.m. Pets must be leashed or caged. The service […]
More Height for Brooklyn Heights? Nets Star Thaddeus Young Settles Here
Stories in both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times note that power forward Thaddeus Young, a Memphis, Tennessee native who recently signed a $50 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets, has become the first team member to move to Brooklyn, and specifically to Brooklyn Heights. Although the Nets became Brooklyn’s team and began […]
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