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Events at Brooklyn Bridge Park Next Week

By on July 30, 2015 1:10 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Astronomy, brooklyn bridge park, Events, Fun, Kids, Literature, movies, Nature, Wildlife

Novelists Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted, and Peter V. Brett, author of The Skull Throne (book four of his The Demon Cycle), will be featured at Monday evening’s (August 3) “Books Under the Bridge,” which begins at 7:00 at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1. This week’s event is jointly presented by WORD Bookstores and […]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “Blooms and Bugs”: Lots of Blooms, No Bugs, Some Birds

By on May 20, 2013 11:20 am in brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Gardening, Nature

As we noted before, this was a big weekend for events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Your correspondent chose to register for the early Sunday morning “Blooms and Bugs” tour around Pier 1. The tour leader was Matthew Wills (photo), who publishes the blog Backyard and Beyond. Matthew began by noting that we weren’t likely to […]

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