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The Junior Committee of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is holding its third annual All Hallows Eve Bash this Friday, October 27, from 8:00 p.m. to midnight, at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, 360...
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Brooklyn Heights Cinema Open Monday, with Special Matinee
While many, if not most, local businesses will be closed tomorrow (Monday, October 29), Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy tells us the shows will go on at the Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of...
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So, What’s On This Weekend?
Brooklyn Bridge Park is closed until further notice. Update: It appears it may be open Saturday. The Brooklyn Historical Society will be closed through Tuesday, November 6. Fortunately, Bargemusic...
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Nice Weather This Weekend; Anything to Do?
The weather forecast is encouraging, but with so many institutions, like Bargemisic, which is in good physical shape but still lacks Con Ed power, coping with the aftermath of the Sandy/nor’easter...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Saturday offers two big events: the Occupy Sandy benefit concert at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, featuring Vampire Weekend (photo courtesy The Guardian) along with other indie groups and musicians...
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LPC Tells 70 Henry Street Owner to Rethink Proposal
The Landmarks Preservation Commission sent the owners of 70 Henry Street, home of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, back to the drawing board this week in their bid to build a mixed used structure on the...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
This Saturday, December 1 is a huge day for fairs. P.S. 8, at Hicks and Middagh, will be having its Holiday Craft Fair from noon to 5:00 p.m. The First Unitarian Church (photo), at Pierrepont Street...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival will present Brooklyn Dynamics: Converging Lives on Film, a screening of three documentaries, at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
As befits the season, this will be a big weekend for musical events in Brooklyn Heights. On Saturday evening, December 15, the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus (photo) will present their Winter Concert at...
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Last Minute Suggestions for the Weekend and Holiday
In town for the weekend and the Christmas holiday? Bargemusic, at Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full schedule of concerts this evening (Thursday), Saturday evening, and Sunday...
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To Demo Or Not? Landmarks Debates Fate Of Brooklyn Heights Cinema
Developers and preservation advocates are playing tug of war as the Landmarks Preservation Committee debates whether to allow Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy to hold onto the landmarked 1895...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Bargemusic, at the Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full schedule of concerts over the next four days. Tomorrow (Thursday, January 3) and Friday, January 4, starting at 8:00 p.m.,...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Much music, as well as live theater, cinema, architecture, and history, is on offer this weekend. Bargemusic, at Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full program of concerts, starting...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
This will be another musical weekend, with Mozart’s birthday coming on Sunday, January 27. You can celebrate that afternoon by attending the Grace & Spiritus Chorale concert at St. Ann & the...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
On Friday, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will begin showing Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as a group of aging mobsters who get...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Those of you who, like me, are fans of Peter Schickele (photo), who have delighted in his compositions (as P.D.Q. Bach) Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Iphegenia in Brooklyn, and Oedipus Tex, will be...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Grover’s Corners beckons! The Heights Players will open Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town Friday evening at 8:00 at 26 Willow Place; there will also be performances at 8:00 p.m. Saturday and 2:00...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will be showing Emperor, starring Matthew Fox as Japan expert General Bonner Fellers and Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar nominee for his role in...
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Stand Up Comedy at Brooklyn Heights Cinema Tomorrow Evening
Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will present a stand up comedy night hosted by Shelly Colman tomorrow (Wednesday, March 20) starting at 9:00 p.m. Comedians on the bill are...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Tonight (Thursday, March 21) and tomorrow night, (Friday, March 22), starting at 8:00, Bargemusic will present Sylvia, an opera by contemporary composer Julia Adolphe (photo). On Saturday evening,...
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Theater 2020 will present a free reading of Oscar Wilde’s (photo) renowned romantic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in the first floor auditorium of the endangered Brooklyn Heights branch of...
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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) this weekend will be showing The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling as a motorcycle stunt rider who turns to robbery to support...
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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Steel Magnolias, which will be playing Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at 26 Willow Place....
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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Sunday evening, April 28 from 6:00 to 8:00 the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (at Orange) will celebrate “40 years of films being shown at the same location” with an evening of comedy,...
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Brooklyn Heights Cinema Offers Discount to Furloughed Federal Workers
Kenn Lowy, owner of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) says he is offering a discount for furloughed federal government employees for the duration of the present...
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Fate Of Cinema In Limbo, Landmarks Doesn’t Vote On 70 Henry Street Plan
The Landmarks Preservation Commission decided this week not to vote on plans to build condos on top of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema building at 70 Henry Street. In the proposal, the cinema would still...
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Landmarks Commission Rejects Second Cinema Site Plan
Although Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy spoke in favor of the proposal, The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Landmarks Preservation Commission has now rejected a second plan for a structure to...
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BHA, Brooklyn Heights Cinema Present Movie Night Thursday
The next BHA Social event, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Cinema and the Brooklyn Heights Association will be this coming Thursday evening, December 12, at the Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of...
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Brooklyn Heights Cinema’s Kenn Lowy Responds To 70 Henry Street’s Owner...
The saga of 70 Henry Street continues as Tom Caruana, owner of the building, has listed it for sale this week with real estate agency Massey Knakal. As the property is currently home to the Brooklyn...
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With 70 Henry Street in Contract the Brooklyn Heights Cinema Will Close on...
A spokesperson for Massey Knakal tells BHB that 70 Henry Street, currently the home of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, is in contract to be sold. The theater will go dark on Thursday, August 27 after 44...
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