The “Books Under the Bridge” reading series continues tomorrow evening (Monday, July 29) at the Granite Prospect, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, starting at 7:00, with a reading from Swann’s Way, the opening volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental trilogy À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time). […]
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Brooklyn Heights’ Theater 2020 Nominated for Four Awards
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, with Montague Street residents Judith Jarosz and David Fuller as producing artistic directors, has been nominated for four New York Innovative Theater Awards this year for its production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which played at St. Charles Borromeo Church in late May, then had several […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
There’s more free Shakespeare on the pier this weekend, as the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy presents Random Access Theater’s production of the comedy Much Ado About Nothing at the Granite Prospect, Pier 1, starting at 7:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Set in colonial Macau, this production explores Much Ado’s wickedly enjoyable themes of love, intrigue, […]
“Tradition with a Twist”: Free Concert at Pier 1 Friday Afternoon and Evening
This Friday, June 21, there will be a a marathon free concert, “Tradition with a Twist” featuring diverse styles of music, at the Granite Prospect on Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. It will begin at 2:30 in the afternoon and go until sunset at 8:31. The headline act is the Balinese orchestra Gamelan Dharma Swara […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Starting tomorrow (Friday, June 7) The Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing The East, an espionage thriller about a former FBI agent, Sarah Moss (Brit Marling), who is hired to infiltrate an anarchist group. The story is partly based on some experiences director Zal Batmanglij and Marling had when they “hung out with ‘anarchists’.” Batmanglij […]
Memorial Day Walk Photos: Brooklyn Heights & Nearby
Your correspondent and family returned from visiting friends on Cape Cod Sunday, having endured a rainy, chilly couple of days there. We understand it was, if anything, worse here. I was delighted to get up Monday ready to enjoy one more day’s holdiday, and find bright sunshine and milder temperatures. So, I took a walk. […]
More Walk Photos
Vines twined around a tree trunk near the Remsen Street entrance to the Promenade. These photos are from several walks over the past week. Flowers in a garden along Remsen Street near Clinton. Nothing biting…yet. Pier 5, Brooklyn Bridge Park. East River Monster? Seen from the south side of Pier 5, this piece of flotsam […]
Christmas Eve Morning Walk Photos, With Tugboats
Yesterday was a good day for a walk, so I did a circuit around the northern part of Brooklyn Heights, including a side trip into Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO, where I did a little last minute Christmas shopping. The photo above–more photos and text follow–is of a wreath on the red door at 33 […]
Dogs on a Bench, a Bird in Hand
Four four legged friends enjoy the sunshine and each others’ company on a bench in front of the Granite Prospect on Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. On the right is Wellington, named best tail wagger at this year’s Brooklyn Heights Association Dog Show. Next to him, in pink harness, is neighbor and occasional walking companion […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
The weekend forecast is for temperatures reaching the high eighties and a strong possibility of thunderstorms. Perhaps not a bad time to take in a good movie. Your correspondent and wife had dinner yesterday evening with Our Friend the Movie Critic, who enthusiastically recommends Farewell My Queen, which is playing at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, […]
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