The Citi Bikes Are Here! The Citi Bikes Are Here!

By on May 25, 2013 in News

This morning we received as dispatch on Twitter from BHB reader @jfj4 showing us that the Citi Bikes have arrived at Clark and Henry Streets. Are you ready for this jelly?

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Summer Cobble Hill Park Concert Series Dates Announced

By on May 25, 2013 in Around Brooklyn

The Cobble Hill Association will sponsor its annual Summer Cobble Hill Park Concert series over the course of four weeks: July 18, July 25, August 1 and August 8. Musicians for the live event will be announced in the near future.
The park is lo…
(via Cobble Hill Blog)

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Brooklyn Heights’ CitiBike Share Foes Aren’t Alone, Sorta

By on May 25, 2013 in News

In case you missed it, there are other Brooklynites besides a few (gasp!) NIMBY’s in Brooklyn Heights and other brownstone neighborhoods who are not only against Citi Bike Share (which launches this Monday) but have managed to keep the kiosks out of their neighborhood completely. Bike foes meet your new friends in the “Black Hat [...]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

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‘Sing For Hope’ Public Pianos Return June 1, Including BBP’s Pier 1

By on May 25, 2013 in Music

As BHB reported in February, Sing for Hope’s outdoor pianos—last seen the summer before last—will return next month to various locations in New York City, including Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1. The project launches June 1 and endures through the 16th, with 88 artist-designed pianos placed in parks & public spaces throughout the city for [...]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

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Comedy Troupe dfor1 Hosting Summer Theater Workshop At PS261

By on May 25, 2013 in Around Brooklyn

Pithy comedy troupe Dinner For One—which in January filmed a “Girls” robot parody on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade—is hosting a Brooklyn TV Teen Workshop this summer at PS 261 in Boerum Hill, looking to involve some 45 area teens interested in theater. The group is in the midst of raising funds via Mobcaster.com for its [...]
(via Cobble Hill Blog)

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Next Transit Museum Problem Solvers Discussion to Focus on Security

By on May 24, 2013 in Arts and Entertainment, Events

On Wednesday, June 5th, at 6:30 pm, Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Subways will speak with Joseph Nugent, the liaison between New York City Transit and the New York Police Department. They will discuss counter-terrorism efforts and other security measures implemented in New York’s and other public transit systems. Ben Kabak, the host of the [...]

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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Good House” by Ann Leary

By on May 24, 2013 in Books

People are complex – we are not so much good or bad, as capable of doing both good things as we are of bad acts. While we may rationalize our lesser actions, it’s the consequences and how we deal with them that really count. Or at least that’s a central theme in the story that [...]

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Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award

By on May 21, 2013 in Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights resident Ron Chernow, who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Washington: A Life, as well as a place in the Brooklyn Heights Blog’s Top 10 that year, has received the BIO award from the non-profit Biographers International Organization. During a gathering May 18 at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Chernow, [...]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

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