The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will celebrate the opening of “Home Base”, its exhibit on the Brooklyn Dodgers, this Thursday evening, June 3, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. All are invited. From the BHS:Join the Brooklyn Historical Society this Thursday for the opening of our new exhibition Home Base: Memories [ ... ] ...
The lecture by Francis Morrone on the history of walking tours, scheduled for this Friday evening at the Brooklyn Historical Society, has been canceled ... According to BHS:If you have bought tickets for this event please call The Municipal Art Society at 212-935-2075 for further information. We apologize for any inconvenience ...
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), will present a seminar on the topic “Listening to Women: Documenting Women’s Lives through Oral History”, on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30, beginning March 24 and ending May 5, with no session on March 31. This non-credit seminar will be taught by Sady Sullivan, [ ... ] ...
This Sunday, February 28, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will host a Brooklyn Poetry Slam for Haiti. The event will begin with a reception starting at 2:30 p.m., followed by performances from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. From BHS:Join the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Historic House Trust, in partnership with [ ... ] ...
From Saturday, February 27 through Sunday, March 14, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will exhibit historic prints depicting Brooklyn Heights and nearby areas. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Association, as part of BHA’s centennial celebration, and is curated by the Old Print Shop, of Manhattan ... The [ ... ] ...
This Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will host the annual “Red Show” Affordable Valentine’s Day Crafts Fair.NY Creates in association with the Brooklyn Historical Society will hold a Valentine’s Day Weekend Crafts Fair at BHS. Come pick up handmade jewelry, clothing, pottery, soaps, [ ... ] ...
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Stephen Brown ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Red Hook already has a furniture store and a supermarket — how about some frat houses? ... Developer Joe Sitt sent shockwaves through a monthly gathering of real estate executives on Tuesday by sharing news that he hoped to convert his waterfront land between the Ikea superstore and the Fairway supermarket into a student housing complex ... “Ask any university, they’re starving for student housing,” Sitt,
When it opened Oct. 1, Brooklyn Utopias, a contemporary art exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), drew more than 400 people. It has since been listed on nearly 20 blogs and event listings sites and attracted a steady flow of visitors. Due to its ongoing popularity, BHS has announced a three-week extension for the exhibit through Jan. 24. Read the story Artists Explore a ‘Perfect’ Borough At the Brooklyn Historical Society by Phoebe Neidl ... * * ...
Historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights has become an official site on the Underground Railroad Heritage Trail with the installation of this sign in the Orange Street yard ... The sign discusses Henry Ward Beecher's role in the abolitionist movement -- for example, holding mock slave auctions to raise money to buy slaves' freedom ... The trail is part of "In Pursuit of Freedom," a joint project of the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Weeksville Heritage
Craft fairs are a good way to shop Brooklyn and they are more holiday-ish than department stores ... So this past weekend we dragged our sorry selves through the cold rain and hit the always-dependable Brooklyn Friends Winter Festival/Holiday Craft Fair ... We were glad we made the effort. Besides snagging some cool handcrafted wooden bracelets and a T-shirt showing a cat inside a whale, there was delicious food and lots of kids in a holiday mood ... After that we ran over to the First Unitarian