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Coming Up This Week

By on October 18, 2015 11:35 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Halloween, Health, Literature, Neighborhoods, Other Brooklyn, Red Hook, Religion, Running

To get you in a macabre mood for the coming Halloween, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Wednesday Night Tour this week is “Haunted Brooklyn Heights”, led by Andrea Janes of Boroughs of the Dead. Nestled within the sedate charms of one of Brooklyn’s oldest neighborhoods is a wealth of gory, ghastly, haunted, and horrific tales. Perhaps some […]

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H.P. Lovecraft, Master of Horror, Lived in Brooklyn Heights

By on August 21, 2010 4:07 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Red Hook

Just as Ten Montague Terrace had its window to hell in Michael Winner’s 1977 The Sentinel, so an apartment at 169 Clinton Street seemed to writer H.P. Lovecraft, the 120th anniversary of whose birth was yesterday, during his residence there in 1925-26. Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft came to New York to […]

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