March Forth: CFAF Offers Heights “Family Walking Tour”

Until the next Homer Fink Hidden Brooklyn Heights tour, New York’s Center for Architecture Foundation (CFAF), in collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society, is offering a “Family Walking Tour of Historic Brooklyn Heights.” The excursion, which takes place Saturday, March 17 (rain date on the 18th) from 2-4 p.m., will “explore the architecture of this [...]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog » Brooklyn History)

Missed Connections at NY Transit Museum on Valentine’s Day

Find your Missed Connection at the NY Transit Museum on Valentine’s Day! *Free admission to Love-in-Transit Party for all would-be romantics *NY Times Metro writer Alan Feuer reads poems based on Craigslist Missed Connections posts *Artist Sophie Blackall has a slideshow and will sign copies of her book Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found *Snap… FULL STORY

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Stranger’s Child” by Alan Hollinghurst

Every once in a while I read a book that is so good I cannot bear to put it down, but at the same time I cannot bear to finish it because then it will be done and I will never be in suspense again. “The Stranger’s Child,” a new book by Alan Hollinghurst, is… FULL STORY

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson

Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933. In that same year, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States, and in due course he appointed a new United States Ambassador to Germany. After several false starts—it was clearly going to be a difficult post, given the world financial turmoil and German… FULL STORY

Transit Museum Introduces New Discussion Series “Problem Solvers” with guest Sarah Kaufman

The New York Transit Museum has announced the start of an informal discussion series, Problem Solvers, hosted by Ben Kabak, founder of the blog Second Avenue Sagas. The free series begins on Wednesday, February 1 at 6:30 pm and will take an intimate look at the most interesting people working behind-the-scenes to operate the city’s… FULL STORY