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Willowtown Association Potluck Dinner Wednesday

On this Wednesday evening, November 13, starting at 7:00 with a “happy hour”, the Willowtown Association will host its annual Potluck Dinner at the A.T. White Community Center on Willow Place. There will be a program following the dinner featuring the presentation of its 2013 “Alfred” (for A.T. White) award to Peter and Camilla Flemming, […]

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Leonard Garment, Former Brooklyn Heights Resident, Jazz Expert, and Nixon Adviser, Dies at 89

Leonard Garment, who for some years in the 1960s and ’70s lived at 40 Willow Place, died on Saturday, July 13, at the age of 89, according to The New York Times. Garment, a Brooklyn native, became a successful Wall Street lawyer and eventually partner of future President Richard Nixon. According to reader Derek Adler, […]

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Heights Players Present Benefit for Cancer-Stricken Couple

Sometimes, tragedy strikes in ways that seem unimaginable, as in the instance of a young couple, parents of a 20 month old daughter, both diagnosed with potentially fatal cancers within days of each other. The Brooklyn Paper: The Heights Players will hold a performance of the company’s current — and very well-reviewed — show, plus […]

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A Very Last Minute Suggestion: Music Tomorrow Evening on Willow Place

A reader notified us that tomorrow evening, Sunday, April 10, at 8:00 p.m., S.E.M. Ensemble and Ostravska banda will present a program of modern music in the auditorium of the A.T. White Community Center, 26 Willow Place. This will be a warmup for their performance at Zankel Hall of Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, April 13. […]

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