Perfect for a prelude to Halloween, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit opens October 4 at the Heights Players. The production is directed by Michelle Maccarone. Ouija-board level chaos is the spirit of the day as the classic comedy of one husband, two wives, and a seance gone awry appears down the hill on Willow Street. It’s […]
Monroe Place to Be Given Honorary Name “Mary Anne Yancey Place” in Ceremony Sunday
This Sunday, September 29, at 1:00 PM, rain or shine, there will be a ceremony at the corner of Monroe Place and Pierrepont Street to unveil a sign giving Monroe Place the honorary name “Mary Anne Yancey Place.” Ms. Yancey, a long time Brooklyn Heights resident who lived with her now late husband Richard C. […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend, late evening Friday, September 27 to early morning Monday, September 30, there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 service to and from Brooklyn will be suspended and 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn on weekends. 2 and 3 trains should be running normally and, for those traveling […]
Big Weekend Coming: Atlantic Antic, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Open Streets Montague
This year’s Atlantic Antic (photo above from a previous year) will take place on Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue this coming Sunday, September 29, from noon until 6:00 p.m., rain or shine. Local merchants will be represented, with special deals for the occasion, along with food, music, dancers, visual artists, clothing vendors, and fun […]
Plymouth Church to Launch History Lecture Series with Talk by Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer
Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street (between Henry and Hicks) is inaugurating the Henry Ward Beecher Lecture Series “to inform a 21st Century audience of all ages on the history of the church, the history of New York City and Brooklyn, and the history of the United States.” Beecher, who served as Plymouth’s minister from its founding in 1847 […]
“Big Rig” Bedeviling Brooklyn Heights
On April 15 your correspondent took this photo of a “big rig,” a diesel powered tractor with an attached, very long, cargo carrying trailer, trying to navigate the corner from Montague to Hicks Street. Now Mary Frost in The Eagle has chronicled how this same truck, which makes deliveries to Key Food Montague, has been unleashing chaos on the streets […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend, late evening Friday, September 20 to early morning Monday, September 23, there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 service to and from Brooklyn will be suspended and 5 trains do not serve Brooklyn on weekends. 2 and 3 trains should be running normally and, for those traveling […]
Perelandra Going Out of Business
Perelandra Natural Foods, 175 Remsen Street, in business in Brooklyn Heights since 1976, will be closed permanently following close of business this Sunday. The news was broken by reader “Banet” on Open Thread Wednesday, who is quoted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as saying a cashier at the store said Perelandra hadn’t lost its lease but that it […]
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