Events

NY Transit Museum: Nostalgia Ride to Coney Island

Want to ride in an old subway car? One with rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, and period advertisements? Ride…

June 25 Art and Mass Transit at the Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum’s PLATFORM: Creative Musings on Mass Transit returns on June 25 at 6:30 pm. In…

Here’s the Full Schedule of Free Events at Brooklyn Bridge Park for Summer 2014

Brooklyn Bridge Park may be getting even more popular this summer — there’s a robust schedule of free events.

Full calendar after the jump.
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Tell the Bartender Live at Union Hall with Wyatt Cenac of The Daily Show

BHB pal/podcaster Katharine Heller will be doing a live version of her popular Tell the Bartender podcast Thursday (5/8) at Union Hall.
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival May 7-11

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival returns for a week of “Brooklyn‐born, Brooklyn-based and Brooklyn-centric films,” with many screened at Brooklyn Heights Cinema and St Francis College’s Founder’s Hall. Highlights include Bodies in Irreversible Detriment, starring Breaking Bad‘s Mark Margolis, and New York Dolls’ David Johansen; Balance, starring Stephen Baldwin; and Spoke: A Short Film […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View 2014 Schedule Announced

Hail Freedonia!!

It’s the 15th year for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View which will kick off with the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup on July 10 on the Harbor View Lawn.

Full sked after the jump.
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

NY Transit Museum presents “The Routes Not Taken” May 13

On Tuesday, May 13, the New York Transit Museum will host “The Routes Not Taken,” an evening in which…

Shirky Gives the Word at BHA Annual Meeting: the Internet Will Not Destroy Culture

A lot went on at Thursday night’s Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting, much of which is touched on in our “Tale of the Tweets” coverage. I have a few points about the business side of the meeting to expand on. In addition to the awards for “best diner” to Clark Restaurant and to Patricia and […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

The Impressions Rock Plymouth

The Impressions’ gospel-rooted rhythm ‘n’ blues, prominent on the pop charts during the struggle to end Jim Crow’s dominion, has been called the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. They have a rich history. Founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1958–Sam Gooden, at left in the photo above, was a founding member–they later moved to Chicago […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

The Impressions Head the Bill for Free the Slaves Concert at Plymouth

Plymouth Church is known for its pre-eminent role, under the leadership of Henry Ward Beecher, in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation declared the slaves free, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the “peculiar institution,” slavery still exists in the United States, and, on a larger scale, elsewhere in the world. […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)