Family Art Workshop at the Transit Museum this Saturday, July 14
Family art returns to the New York Transit Museum on Saturday, July 14, this time with artist Enrico Miguel…
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Heights History: A Room At The Hotel St. George, $10 A Week… In 1880
After going back in time to 1902 last month, we’ve given the Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives another spin into the past. This time we transport back to July 10, 1880, 132 years ago today… What a deal! The Hotel St. George is offering special summer rates, for $10 a week. Your offer includes a bedroom, […]
July 10, 2012
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Update: Lady Susan Moving to New Location
This Saturday’s (July 14) reading, presented by Theater 2020, of Lynn Marie Macy’s work-in-progress Lady Susan or the Captive Heart, a Jane Austen Bodice Ripper, originally scheduled to be held at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, has, because of the Library’s well known air conditioning problems, been moved to St. Charles […]
July 10, 2012
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Cobble Hill’s Bien Cuit On Smith Street Garners Sweet Superlatives
With its ever-evolving selection of local eateries and novel boutiques, residents of Cobble Hill have come to know Smith Street as one of the most inviting corridors in South Brooklyn. It appears the word is out. In two separate surveys over the past week, pastry shop Bien Cuit at 120 Smith has been deemed one […]
July 9, 2012
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Bring Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel
“Bring Up the Bodies” is a follow-up volume to Hilary Mantel’s wonderful novel “Wolf Hall” (2009). Ending in approximately…
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Racked Names A Cook’s Companion Among Nine Best NYC Kitchen Suppliers
Shopping website Racked offers its take on “Nine Cooking Supply Stores for a Well-Stocked Kitchen,” and includes A Cook’s Companion at 197 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights as a pick for “shops catering to the adventurous home cook.” The site says of the popular destination: “A foodie’s dream, this Brooklyn shop offers quality goods, often […]
July 9, 2012
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Times Remembers Eagle’s Dennis Holt, Civil Rights Hero
In the Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section, Kevin Baker remembers his friend of many years, Dennis Holt, who died last month. Baker paints a colorful portrait of Holt as “a classic New York eccentric” who once chased an intruder from his Boerum Hill townhouse while brandishing a Civil War era dress sword. Baker also […]
July 9, 2012
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Ephemeral New York Deems St. George Liquor Sign ‘One Of Coolest’ Vintage
The always intriguing Ephemeral New York, which “chronicles an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts,” has deemed the neon sign outside the St. George Hotel one of “New York’s coolest vintage liquor store signs.” It joins age-old comrades in the West Village, 14th Street & Eighth Avenue and the Lower East Side. Of course, […]
July 9, 2012
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Spike Lee Believes Cobble Hill Has Gentrified Into Brooklyn Heights
In a lengthy Q&A on New York magazine’s Vulture blog, Spike Lee talks with writer Will Leitch in detail about his roots in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill. The director was born in Atlanta, and moved to Crown Heights at an early age, followed by eight years beginning around the age of 4—from 1961 to 1969—at 186 […]
July 8, 2012
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Spike Lee Believes Cobble Hill Has Gentrified Into… Brooklyn Heights
In a lengthy Q&A on New York magazine’s Vulture blog, Spike Lee talks with writer Will Leitch in detail about his roots in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill. The director was born in Atlanta, and moved to Crown Heights at an early age, followed by eight years beginning around the age of 4—from 1961 to 1969—at 186 […]
July 8, 2012
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