E.L. Doctorow, one of the most accalimed writers of contemporary American fiction, whose novels include Ragtime (1976 National Book Critics Circle Award; a 1981 movie version starred James Cagney as a police commissioner and Norman Mailer as the architect Stanford White), World’s Fair (1986 National Book Award), and, most recently, Homer & Langley (2009), a […]
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Reminder: Meeting Tomorrow Evening on Housing in Park
A meeting of the Community Advisory Council to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, originally scheduled for last week, will be held tomorrow evening starting at 6:00 p.m. at St. Francis College, 182 Remsen Street. On the agenda will be the subject of building luxury housing on park land to fund park maintenance. The public is […]
BHA Gives Two Free Screenings of “Hollywood in the Heights” Wednesday Evening
Back in January, the Brooklyn Heights Association inaugurated its “Celebrating a Century” series of events marking its 100th anniversary with “Hollywood in the Heights” a program about movie-making in the Heights. The program included a film montage of scenes from movies shot in the neighborhood, including The Age of Innocence, Burn After Reading, Moonstruck, Prizzi’s […]
Reminder: Final Community Meeting on Housing in Park This Evening
The final community meeting on alternatives to housing as sources of funds for maintenance of Brooklyn Bridge Park will be this evening: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 6pm – 8pm St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street Founders Hall Auditorium, 1st floor This will be your last opportunity to express your views on this issue before the […]
BQE Advisory Committee Meeting at St. Francis Tomorrow Evening, POSTPONED
We’ve just received this: On behalf of the Federal Highway Administration and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), this is a reminder that you are invited to participate in the 8th Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Environmental Impact Statement: Downtown Brooklyn project. The meeting will occur on Wednesday, November […]
St. Francis Presents Program on Brooklyn Literature Friday, December 10
On Friday, December 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m., St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Film and Art Festival, will present a program of readings and discussions on the subject “Brooklyn in Literature, 1855-2010″. The speakers are:
St. Francis to Host “Tea Party” Debate
On Thursday, October 28, St. Francis College will present a discussion of the “Tea Party” phenomenon that has affected American politics this election year, including New York with Carl Paladino’s capture of the Republican nomination for governor. Brooklyn Daily Eagle: With Tea Party victories across the country during recent primaries, St. Francis College and the […]
Primary Election Coming Tuesday
This in from the Brooklyn Heights Association: 1) Tuesday, September 14th, is Primary Day. Everyone who lives in Brooklyn Heights should vote! The welfare of our neighborhood rests with an active and aware citizenry because our elected representatives feel more accountable to the communities who vote in the greatest numbers. If you need help locating […]
Poet John Ashbery to be Honored at Book Festival Sunday
The distingushed New York poet John Ashbery will be honored with the “BoBi” award at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, to be held at Borough Hall Park this Sunday, September 12. At 1:00 p.m. Sunday, Ashbery and renowned Brooklyn novelist Paul Auster will have a conversation on the stage of the St. Francis College auditorium, […]
Walt Whitman: the First Beatnik?
It’s not a great stretch to see stylistic, and perhaps even thematic, similarities between, say, Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”. The relationship between the poetry of the nineteenth century Bard of Brooklyn (see some local folks reciting Whitman’s verse here) and that of the Beats a century later is […]
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