Transit Museum hosts talk on Climate Change and Transportation Infrastructure
Hurricane Sandy forced a shutdown of the New York City transit system in October 2012, and a warming climate…
March 15, 2016-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “ Florence Gordon” by Brian Morton
Women of a certain age tend to become invisible, but not Florence Gordon, a writer and the title character…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World” by Tim Marshall
Our communications and travel technological advances of the last half century or so have made the world feel very…
March 4, 2016 -
Film “2e: Twice Exceptional” at the Transit Museum
The NY Transit Museum will be part of the 8th NY Disabilities Film Festival with a screening of “2e:…
March 1, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone” by Scott Shane
When Barack Obama took office as President of the United States in January 2009, the US was still heavily…
February 19, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Arcadia” a Novel by Iain Pears
by Alexandra Bowie Iain Pears’ fascinating and compelling new novel “Arcadia” opens in a landscape, “bathed in sunshine, sweet-smelling…
February 12, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern” by Francine Prose
Peggy Guggenheim was a niece of Solomon Guggenheim (whose art collection is housed in the eponymous museum) and a…
February 5, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “All Who Go Do Not Return” by Shulem Deen
The Hasidic rabbis who decide what behavior is acceptable for their followers use the Hebrew acronym BYKL – in…
January 29, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Here’s Looking at Euclid” by Alex Bellos
We all learn to count, add, subtract, and do our multiplication tables in elementary school. From there we move…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Table of Less Valued Knights” by Marie Phillips
The Round Table was round for a reason: all its knights shared equal billing, and hence precedence (even though,…
January 15, 2016