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September 7: the Brooklyn Dribble, sponsored by the New York Liberty, returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park. September 14: Open Streets Montague, sponsored by the Montague BID, will return, and will ...
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Pluto Movies With A View, on the Harbor View Lawn of Pier One, Brooklyn Bridge Park, will conclude this summer’s run on Thursday evening, August 28. As before, the public is invited to choose, by ...
Pluto Movies With A View, on the Harbor View Lawn of Pier One, Brooklyn Bridge Park, will conclude this summer’s run on Thursday evening, August 28. As before, the public is invited to choose, by ...
Pluto Movies With A View, on the Harbor View Lawn of Pier One, Brooklyn Bridge Park, will conclude this summer’s run on Thursday evening, August 28. As before, the public is invited to choose, by ...
As reported by Gothamist, at about 7:00 this morning the large metal awning covering the sidewalk at the Henry Street entrance to the Clark Street subway station at the St. George ...
We’ve received notice from the NYC DOT that starting next Monday, August 11, or soon thereafter, the block of Columbia Heights between Cranberry and Middagh streets will be closed to all vehicular, ...
Mary Frost in the Eagle reports that a “National Night Out” event, sponsored by the 84th Precinct Community Council, will take place tomorrow (Tuesday, August 5) on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park ...
We recently went on a trip back in time at some of the restaurants in the North Heights. Now it’s time to start doing the same down on Montague Street. ...
Monday morning, August 11 through Friday evening, August 15 – late nights Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday there will be only Manhattan bound service at Court Street and at the N/R ...
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Brooklyn Heights residents persuaded “Power Broker” Robert Moses to re-route his plans to ram the BQE through the heart of the neighborhood and to halt bulldozing ...
Here is another article on Heights history by Robert Furman: The Low family fortune was begun by Seth Low the elder (1782-1853, A.A.’s father, who was born in 1782 in West Gloucester, Massachusetts.