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Highlights of the Brooklyn Folk Festival 2023
The 2023 Brooklyn Folk Festival began on Friday evening, November 17 with a performance on the Main Stage in the Sanctuary of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church by the Down Hill Strugglers (photo above) consisting of (left to right): Eli Smith, organizer and host of the Folk Festival; Jackson Lynch; and Walker Shepard, […]
Brooklyn Heights Library to Close Sundays
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that after Sunday, December 17 the Brooklyn Heights Branch, along with some other branches, will no longer be open on Sundays, thanks to cuts to the Library’s budget. The Library announced that the budget cuts will also require us to reduce spending on library materials, programming, and building maintenance. […]

Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The bad and good news for this weekend — late Friday evening, November 17 to early Monday morning Monday, November 20 — is pretty much the same as last weekend’s. The bad news is that there will be no 2 or 3 train service to or from Brooklyn this weekend (late Friday night to early […]

Bird Tour in Brooklyn Bridge Park Sunday
Heather Wolf, author of Birding at the Bridge and Find More Birds, who has seen over 150 species of birds in Brooklyn Bridge Park.will lead a tour of fall migration birds in the Park this Sunday, November 19, starting at 9:00 am. Meet in front of Lizzmonade, near the foot of Old Fulton Street. The […]

Danish Christmas Fair This Coming Weekend
Want to get a jump on Black Friday shopping, and enjoy some Danish delicacies and drinks as well? The Danish Seamen’s Church, 102 Willow Street (near Clark) will hold its annual Christmas Fair, or Julmarked, this coming weekend, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM both Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19. Shop unique Scandinavian designs, […]

BQE Truck Weight Limit Enforcement Begins Today
According to Ben Brachfeld in amNY, starting this week northbound trucks on the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway below Brooklyn Heights that exceed the 80,000 pound weight limit will be charged $650 fines. The weight sensors have been operative for three months, but until now overweight trucks have been given warnings. The sensors for […]

Who Chopped Down a Tree on Clark St. in the Dark of Night? NYC Parks Dept Seeks Info
Mary Frost reports in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle that the NYC Parks Department is seeking information about a missing tree on Clark St. According to the report, sometime after midnight on October 13, an arborcidal maniac chopped down a young, healthy, honey locust tree in front of 64 Clark St. The Parks Department had planted the tree a […]

Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The bad news is that there will be no 2 or 3 trqin service to or from Brooklyn this weekend (late Friday night to early onday morning), so no service at Clark Street or at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. The good news is that 4, A, C, F, N, and R trains should, […]
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