Saturday is the annual City of Water Day, and Brooklyn Bridge Park has several events planned to celebrate it. There will be kayaking from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. between piers 1 and 2. From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Pier 6 there will be a Wildlife Theater performance that should appeal to kids, A […]
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Rushdie at St. Francis: “Open the Universe”
Award-winning novelist Sir Salman Rushdie delivered the eleventh annual Thomas J. Volpe lecture to a packed auditorium at St. Francis College this afternoon. His topic was “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World.” Rushdie began by noting that, in the nineteenth century, works of fiction often were the sole means by […]
Heights History: 48 Hicks Street
The storefront at 48 Hicks Street is now vacant but it was once a used antiquarian bookstore owned by one of New York City’s legendary booksellers. Jack Biblo, who along with partner Jack Tannen owned and operated Biblo and Tannen’s one of Manhattan’s largest bookstores, spent his final years running a much smaller bookstore — […]
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