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Coming Events at Brooklyn Bridge Park

By on August 19, 2016 6:08 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn History, Events, Food, Fun, Games, History, Kids, Literature, Maritime, Music, Parents, Sports

Tomorrow (Saturday, August 20) from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. there will be a free Pier 5 Family Field Day, with potato, sack, and Hula Hoop races, parachute games, soccer skills lessons, and scrimmage games. More information here. On Sunday afternoon, August 21 from 2:00 to 5:00 the Nantucket lightship (photo), docked at Pier 6, […]

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The BHB Ten for 2015!

By on January 10, 2016 11:59 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, CEC13Brooklyn, Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Development, Education, History, Literature, Music, Neighborhoods, P.S. 307, P.S. 8, Pets, Real Estate, Religion

Here, in no particular order, are the people you, the readers, and we nominated for the Brooklyn Heights Ten for the past year, 2015. Tracy (“Mrs. Fink”) Zamot and daughter Gracie: The sudden and unexpected loss of BHB’s founder, publisher, contributor, and guiding light John “Homer Fink” Loscalzo last April left all of us on […]

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“Architects May Come, and Architects May Go….”

By on November 22, 2015 11:15 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights

…but H.I. Feldman has left his name, in stone, in Brooklyn Heights for however long 70 Remsen Street stands, and it’s a very solid looking building. It was completed in 1929 and initially functioned as a “men’s hotel”, but is now luxury apartments. His name isn’t all Feldman left on the building, though. If you […]

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Coming at Brooklyn Historical Society Next Week

By on October 10, 2015 11:57 pm in Brooklyn History, Environment, Health, History

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 […]

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