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Kids’ Crafts Event at Brooklyn Women’s Exchange Wednesday
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 14, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 137 Montague Street, will host an event in which kids of all ages (those under seven must be accompanied by an adult) can learn to make beaded friendship bracelets. There is a suggested donation of five dollars; registration is not required.
The Party Will Go On At Alice’s Tea Cup
Mad For Chicken may have flown the coop, but Alice’s Tea Cup won’t go down the rabbit hole; at least not anytime soon. As reported by Eater, the chain of whimsical tea-and-pastries shops, which has locations on the Upper East and West sides and in Brooklyn Heights, at 43 Hicks Street (corner of Middagh), and which was near […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend, late evening Friday, August 9 to early morning Monday, August 12, 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 except that 2 trains will […]
Another Brooklyn Heights Residence Vandalized
Update: Mary Frost, in the Eagle, has more information, including the responses by City Councilmember Lincoln Restler and by the Brooklyn Heights Association. As reported by ABC7, an apartment building on Orange Street that is home to Columbia University’s Chief Operating Officer, Cas Holloway, was vandalized with red triangles painted on the door and each side of the doorway, and red […]
Arrest Made in Vandalism of Hicks Street Residence of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak
As we noted on June 12, vandals attacked the entrance to the Mansion House apartment building, 145 Hicks Street, home of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak. “The front of the building was defaced with red paint, inverted red triangles were painted on the doors, and [there was] hung up a banner that said ‘Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White-Supremacist […]
Mark Morris Dance Group at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday
This coming Saturday, August 3 , the Mark Morris Dance Group (photo) will be at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Harbor View Lawn for “an all-ages family-friendly workshop” and “a special, outdoor performance.” The workshop begins at 2:00 PM, where all ages and abilities are invited to dance with Mark Morris Dance Group. It will be followed by their performance […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This coming weekend — late Friday evening, August 2 until early Monday morning, August 5– the only planned change diectly affecting service at local stations is that the only late night/early morning service at Court Street or at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Brooklyn bound N trains, as Manhattan bound N trains will […]
Willowtown Branch Collapse
Brooklyn Heights has had more than its share of bad weather lately. As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, a giant branch fell from a tree across Joralemon Street between Willow Place and Columbia Place on Tuesday, damaging two cars. See dramatic photos, by Willowtown Association President Linda DeRosa, in Ms. Frost’s linked Eagle story above. Click on “Read […]
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