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St. Ann’s Puppet Parade 2011

The annual St. Ann’s Puppet Parade was today and BHB pal/Brooklyn Heights resident/King of the Daily Greg Clayman sent us these photos of the fun.

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Jemima Kirke on Life in Brooklyn Heights

Actress Jemima Kirke, Heights resident and daughter of Bad Company (and, before that, Free) drummer Simon Kirke and fashion and interior designer Lorraine Kirke, is in Lena Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture as well as Dunham’s forthcoming comedy series for HBO. Interviewed by Noemi Zeichner, she had this to say:

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Tompkins Named New St. Ann’s Head

The search for the third person to be head of St. Ann’s School is over. New York Times: Saint Ann’s School, the prestigious and progressive Brooklyn Heights school, has selected Vincent Tompkins, the deputy provost of Brown University, to be its new headmaster. Mr. Tompkins, 48, who takes over on July 1, said he was […]

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St. Ann’s Puppet Parade, 2010

This year’s version of the annual event, shot from the Promenade earlier today. Nabe blogger/Celine Dion fan Chuck Taylor was shocked and/or awed by the parade.

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Headmaster Ritual: Weiss Leaving Saint Ann’s at End of School Year

In a St. Ann’s School e-mail to parents obtained by BHB,  Board of Trustee’s member Peter Darrow announces that Dr. Larry Weiss will be leaving as Head of School after the 2009-2010 school year.

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St. Ann’s Puppet Parade 2009

The annual St. Ann’s School Puppet Parade on the Promenade this afternoon.

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Parolee Escape at One Pierrepont Plaza

As a commenter on the previous post noted, this afternoon a parolee fled from an interrogation room at One Pierrepont Plaza, a building which the federal parole office shares with part of St. Ann’s School, and was pursued on the street by officers, at least one of whom may have drawn his weapon, ten minutes […]

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NY Daily News: St. Ann’s Parents Meet, Scream at Judge

The New York Daily News reports today on the controversy over the planned opening of a probation office across the street from St. Ann’s School.  Read the piece, comment away: NY Daily News: Parents of St. Ann’s School…: Not in Binky and Bunky’s schoolyard! Parents of students at the snooty St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn […]

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