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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on October 31, 2013 2:25 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Astronomy, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Celebrity Residents, Downtown Brooklyn, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, Landmark Preservation, movies, Music, Other Brooklyn, Pets, Shopping, Theater

The Heights Players’ production of Twelve Angry Men premieres this weekend at the Players’ playhouse, 26 Willow Place, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 12:00. This now classic drama began life as a television show in the 1950s, was made into a movie (12 Angry Men) by Henry […]

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NY1: Plymouth Church Featured in Underground Railroad Tours

By on January 17, 2011 3:41 pm in History, Tourism

As we’ve previously noted, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, at Hicks and Orange Streets, was an important part of the “Underground Railroad”. This was the clandestine system established by abolitionists, of which Henry Ward Beecher, minister at Plymouth in the pre-Civil War Years, was an inspirational leader, to help fugitive slaves escape to freedom in […]

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