Next Transit Museum Problem Solvers Discussion to Focus on Security
On Wednesday, June 5th, at 6:30 pm, Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Subways will speak with Joseph Nugent, the…
May 24, 2013-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Good House” by Ann Leary
People are complex – we are not so much good or bad, as capable of doing both good things…
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Brooklyn Heights Resident & Pulitzer Winner Ron Chernow Receives BIO Award
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, […]
May 21, 2013
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Actor Sean Penn Testifies For Release Of Imprisoned Brooklyn Heights Man
Actor & activist Sean Penn testified Monday before a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that a Brooklyn Heights businessman being held in Bolivia is a “Dead Man Walking.” Jacob Ostreicher, 54, has been held without charge for nearly two years in the South American country and remains under house arrest even though 13 of his […]
May 21, 2013
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Adam Yauch To Be Honored At 2013 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Following May 3rd’s ceremony in Brooklyn Heights dedicating the newly named Adam Yauch Park in honor of the late Beastie Boy, the childhood Heights’ resident will now be acknowledged with a special tribute at the 2013 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, lost his battle with cancer in May 2012, at age 47. Wes Jackson, […]
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Open Thread: Brooklyn’s Front Page May 2013
Check out the headlines on Brooklyn’s Front Page and discuss them here. Have a link or news tip? Comment below or tweet us – @brooklynbugle .
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” by Walter Stahr
William Henry Seward is one of those people we think we know about – wasn’t he the cabinet member…
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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s “Sunset Ohana” is Thursday Evening, June 6
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is having “Sunset Ohana,” its 14th annual (which seems to go back to when the Park was still a gleam in some local citizens’ eyes) sunset party at Pier 1 on Thursday, June 6 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. This year the theme is Hawaiian. Our little slice of Hawaii […]
May 17, 2013
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Tell The Bartender Episode 9: Last Days and the Preponderant Shaft Project
Listen to Episode 9: Last Days and the Preponderant Shaft Project Download From iTunes Here In This Episode: Last Days: Stephanie D’Abruzzo has an interesting history with last days on the job. She shares with us two short stories about her last day at the Broadway show Avenue Q, and her last day working at […]
May 15, 2013
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Brooklyn Heights Resident Paul Giamatti Filming ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′ In DUMBO
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ is filming in DUMBO this week, as the neighborhood was taken over by police cars, the “Midtown bus,” crowds of extras and all sorts of whacko action. McBrooklyn offers pics, including lead Andrew Garfield—and Brooklyn Heights’ own Paul Giamatti, who plays villain “The Rhino.” In the film, his alter ego is […]
May 14, 2013
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