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The Grace Chorale of Brooklyn, under the direction of Hannah Nacheman, will be at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, this Saturday, April 18 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, April 19 at 3:00 pm to present “A More Perfect Union,” a concert “Celebrating 250 Years of Struggle, Hope, and the Ongoing Work of Democracy.” You can buy tickets here.

This weekend – late Friday evening, April 10 through early Monday morning, April 13 – C trains will not be running in either direction. A trains should be running normally in both directions, and Brooklyn bound F trains will be re-routed to the C line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Euclid Avenue. This means that at High Street the only Manhattan bound service will be by the A train, while there will be Brooklyn bound service by A and F trains. At York Street in DUMBO there will only be Manhattan bound F train service. Late nights all weekend – Friday to Saturday through Sunday to Monday – 4 trains will terminate and originate at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and so will not be serving Brooklyn, but 3 trains, which do not normally serve Brooklyn on weekends, will serve all 4 train stops from Borough Hall to New Lots Avenue. Those traveling to or from the East Side of Manhattan can transfer between the N or R, both of which should be running normally, and the 4, 5, or 6 at 14th Street-Union Square. On Sunday morning from 7:45 to 10:00 2 trains will be running on a reduced schedule – approximately every 15 minutes.

The following work week – Monday morning, April 13 through Friday evening, April 17 – late nights and early mornings Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday there will be no Manhattan bound service at High Street, as Manhattan bound A trains will be re-routed to the F line between Jay Street-MetroTech and West 4th Street-Washington Square. Meanwhile, Brooklyn bound F trains will be re-routed to the A line between west 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech. This means no Manhattan bound service at High Street and no Brooklyn bound service at York Street in DUMBO during these late night hours, but extra Manhattan bound service at York Street and extra Brooklyn bound service at High Street. These same late nights-early mornings 4 trains will terminate and originate at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and so will not be serving Brooklyn, but 3 trains, which do not normally serve Brooklyn late at night will serve all 4 train stops from Borough Hall to New Lots Avenue.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

Voices in the Heights will be at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, Pierrepont Street at Monroe Place, on Saturday at 7:30 pm, presenting My Politic, “an indie-Folk duo” whose “body of work consistently showcases engaging slice-of-life storytelling, expertly crafted characters, highly skilled acoustic instrumentation and sibling like harmonies”; along with Buffalo Rose, “a singularly spectacular six-piece band” who, despite their name, hail from Pittsburgh, and who style their music as “Theatre Kid Americana.” You may attend in person or watch the concert streamed on line; buy tickets here.

Bargemusic will begin its 2026 concert season this weekend at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse, easily accessible from the Heights via the Joralemon Street entrance to the Park. There will be two free concerts each weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, both starting at 2:00 pm. This weekend will feature “Quintessential Quintets by Mozart” on Saturday and Sunday. There’s a full schedule of this season’s concerts here.

A beautiful, sophisticated play, The Wolves presents a season in the lives of these young women. We see their anxieties, hear their secrets, watch them resolve their petty squabbles and deeper divisions. In a world where we rarely get to explore the relationship of just women, alone on stage together, this play truly is an exceptional window into the physical and emotional struggles of female adolescence. 

The play, directed by Dorea Slagle, will be staged at the John Bourne Theater, located at 26 Willow Place. There is an accessible entrance at 25 Columbia Place, directly behind the theater. There will be seven performances: 8:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11; 2:00 pm on Sunday, April 12; 8:00 pm on Friday, April 17;  2:00 pm and 8:00 pm on Saturday, April 18, and 8:00 pm on Sunday, April 19. The play runs for 90 minutes with no intermission. You may buy tickets here.

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This coming Easter and Passover weekend – late Friday evening, April 3 through early Monday morning, April 6 – there will be no Brooklyn bound service at High Street as Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech . This means extra Brooklyn bound service at York Street in DUMBO.

The following work week – Monday morning, March 30 through Friday evening, April 3 – late nights Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday there will be no 4 train service in either direction in Brooklyn, but 3 trains, which do not normally serve Brooklyn late at night, will be running and provide service to and from New Lots Avenue.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

Walking along State Street you may have noticed a red brick townhouse bearing a plaque that reads “WELCOME TO The Islamic Mission of America DAWOOD MOSQUE” with a subtext in Arabic. As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, in the early morning hours of March 9 a man scattered pages torn from the Quran, Islam’s holy text, in front of the mosque. He returned later and smeared what was identified as feces on the mosque’s door. As the Eagle story reports, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force,  which released the surveillance camera photo of the suspect above, is pursuing the investgation.

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This coming weekend – late Friday evening, March 27 through early Monday morning, March 30 – there will be no Brooklyn bound service at High Street as Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech . This means extra Brooklyn bound service at York Street in DUMBO.

The following work week – Monday morning, March 30 through Friday evening, April 3 – late nights Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday there wll be no Brooklyn bound service at High Street as Manhattan bound A trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech, and C trains do not serve Brooklyn late at night. These same late nights there will be no 4 train service in either direction in Brooklyn, but 3 trains, which do not normally serve Brooklyn late at night, will be running and provide service to and from New Lots Avenue.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual egg hunts will take place this Saturday, March 28, starting at 10:30 AM. One hunt, for todders three years old and under, will be held at the Harry Chapin Playground, Columbia Heights at Middagh Street. The other, for kids four and older, will be at the Pierrepont Playground, at the foot of Pierrepont Street. Families with children in both age ranges may choose which playground to visit (a word to the wise: Pierrepont has bathrooms; Harry Chapin does not, though there are bathrooms a short walk down Columbia Heights in Squibb Park). Although the egg supply will be generous, children are asked to take home no more than two each. Egg Hunt sponsor City Point will provide a surprise guest.

There will be a bake sale hosted by BHA at both playground locations. If you would like to contribute baked goods for sale or work a one hour shift at one of the tables. please register here.

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Repast Baroque (photo; left to right: Stephanie Corwin, baroque bassoon; Gabe Shuford, harpsichord; Sarah Abigael Stone, cello and viola da gamba; and Natalie Rose Kress, violin) will return to Brooklyn Heights this coming Saturday, March 28, for the third concert in their 2025-26 season, which has the theme “Literary Circles.”  The subject of this concert is “Classics: King Arthur and Robin Hood.”

Profiling two English folk heroes, King Arthur and Robin Hood, Repast is joined by the chivalrous bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton. Legendary King Arthur and his circle of gallant knights hold court with Dibdin’s The institution of the Garter, or Arthur’s Round Tablerestored (1745) and Purcell’s King Arthur (1691). Robin Hood, a rebel hero of broadside ballads and Shield’s comic opera Robin Hood (1784), comes through as the people’s champion.

Also joining Repast for this concert are Adam Cockerham on theorbo and Shelby Yamin on violin.

The concert starts at 3:00 pm, at the McKinney Chapel of the First Unitarian Congregational Society, Brooklyn, 121 Pierrepont Street. You may buy tickets here.

The Eagle story quotes City Councilmember Lincoln Restler as saying, “his office has received numerous complaints about an increase in mentally ill and homeless individuals in the station.” In his February newsletter he said, “Our office has funded new cameras for the station and we have worked with NYPD and homeless outreach providers to increase their presence in the station.”

Deborah O’Connor will be at the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange, 137 Montague Street (between Henry and Clinton, below UPS), Friday, April 24 from 4 to 6 PM, Saturday, April 25 from 10 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday, April 26 from 10 AM to 3 PM, to work her scissors magic and create silhouette portraits.

A timeless art form and a charming keepsake! Our hand-cut silhouettes are created freehand using only scissors and black paper, capturing a beautiful profile in just minutes.

Perfect for children and pets, these classic portraits make wonderful gifts and lasting memories.

Reservations are necessary, and they are already going fast. You can sign up here.

The Exchange is now offering a wide variety of handcrafted gifts, decor, and treats for Easter and Passover.

BBP staff reached out to the organizer to inform them that large groups needed a permit, and asked them to contact the park in advance. The person that we sent that comment to, the organizer, as I understand it, mockingly shared our post on social media and then blocked us from sending him any further messages.”

BBP then notified the 84th Precinct, and Captain Erek Powers arranged to have a police detail in place on the pier an hour before the announced gathering time. Things stayed calm until about 5:30, when fights broke out. Some police officers were attacked. The police called for reinforcements, then cleared the pier, which was cleared by 7:00 PM. There were no serious injuries and no property was damaged.

Unfortunately, as the Eagle story notes, social media inspired gatherings like this have happened frequently; the story provides at its conclusion a list of previous incidents. More can be expected, especially at school spring break time, which this year comes from April 2 – 10.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this weekend (late this evening, Friday, March 20 through early Monday morning, March 23) should be a “green light weekend,” as there are no planned cancellations, route changes, or station skips directly affecting service at any local stations. During days and evenings Saturday and Sunday 2 trains will run on a reduced schedule, every twelve minutes. Likewise, there are no planned changes affecting service at local stations during the following work week: Monday morning, March 23 through Friday evening, March 27.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

This morning Martha Foley got this photo of the sidewalk bridge surrounding the Bossert being dismantled. We understand, however, that it was quickly replaced. We can look forward to the day when it’s no longer there.

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The photo (courtesy of and © Andrew Porter) shows, from left to right, Brooklyn Heights Association President Jeremy Lechtzin, BHA Executive Director Lara Birnback, and City C0uncilmember Lincoln Restler. As Mr. Lechtzin noted in his remarks, this was the Association’s 116th annual meeting. The BHA is, he said, the oldest neighborhood civic association in the U.S., having been established in 1910. The meeting was held at the First Unitarian Congregational Society.

As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, the meeting featured several awards for community service and covered many issues of concern to Brooklyn Heights residents, including: the BQE; the future of the Bossert; the prevalence of sidewalk bridges and scaffolding; school crowding because of efforts to reduce the number of students per classroom and increased population because of the pending conversion of former Jehovah’s Witnesses buildings on lower Columbia Heights from commercial to residential; and the threat of increases in property taxes. Councilmember Restler noted that property taxes are governed by state law, and that the last time Albany dealt with this issue it took ten years to amend the statute. Mr. Lechtzin said there had been concerns about parking and truck loading and unloading following “the recent Montague Street redesign, which included curb extensions, new street furniture and planters.” He said there is as much truck loading and unloading space on Montague as there was before the redesign was implemented. However, I have noticed that large tractor-trailer rigs making deliveries to Key Food Montague turn and park on Hicks Street, and often leave their trailers blocking the pedestrian crosswalk.

One piece of very good news is that a home has been found for the Community Fridge. It is now in front of the Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, at 125 Henry Street, across the street from its former location.

Some coming BHA sponsored events were announced. Spring Into Service, a day of volunteer work on community projects, will be on Saturday, April 25. To participate, email lsullivan@thebha.org  The annual egg hunt at the Harry Chapin and Pierrepont playgrounds will be on Saturday, March 18, starting at 10:30 AM. For details about other future events, see the BHA website events page.

A highlight of the evening was a speech by U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez (photo below, C. Scales for BHB) who represented Brooklyn Heights  from 1997, when it was added to her district, until 2022, when her district lines were changed again. After 33 years of service in the House of Representatives she decided not to run for re-election “to make room for the next generation.” She praised Brooklyn Heights, and the BHA in particular, saying the neighborhood “shaped much of my work.”

Whether we were fighting to protect the Promenade, investing in the waterfront, establishing the Greenway, pushing back on Washington D.C. or making sure businesses on Montague Street had a fighting chance — the people of Brooklyn Heights were always in the room. You picked up the phone, you wrote the letters, you packed the town halls.

The New York Police Department’s 84th Precinct, which covers Brooklyn Heights, will have a Community Council Meeting, to which all are invited, this coming Tuesday, March 17, starting at 7:00 PM at Borough Hall (enter at 209 Joralemon Street). “Agenda items include review of crime statistics, a Cop of The Month award, and public Q&A.” Come early! Refreshments will be served from 6:00 to 7:00. Thanks to Brooklyn Community Board 2 for the tip.

This coming weekend – late Friday evening, March 13 through early Monday morning, March 16 – there will be no Brooklyn bound service at High Street as Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech. This means extra Brooklyn bound service at York Street in DUMBO. T here will be less frequent service at Clark Street and at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall, as 2 and 3 trains will be running on a reduced schedule, every twelve minutes.

The following work week – Monday morning, March 16 through Friday evening, March 20 – late nights Monday to Tuesday and Tuesday to Wednesday there will be no service at Clark Street and at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall as 2 train service will be suspended in both directions between Chambers Street and Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, and 3 trains do not serve Brooklyn late at night. For serious night owls, on Thursday morning, March 19 from 1:30 to 4:30 2 trains will be running on a very reduced schedule, every 30 minutes.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

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This coming weekend – late Friday evening, March 6 through early Monday morning, March 9 – there will be no Manhattan bound service at High Street as Manhattan bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between Jay Street-MetroTech and West 4th Street-Washington Square. This means extra Manhattan bound service at York Street in DUMBO.

The following work week – Monday morning, March 9 through Friday evening, March 13 – late nights Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday 4 train service will be suspended in both directions between Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and New Lots Avenue, so there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall (5 trains do not serve Brooklyn late at night), but 2 and 3 trains should be running normally, and those traveling to or from the East Side of Manhattan can transfer between the 4 or 5 and the 2 or 3 at Borough Hall in Manhattan. For those traveling to or from Brooklyn, 3 trains will proide service to and from New Lots Avenue.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.

The Brooklyn Heights Association will have its 2026 Annual Meeting at the First Unitarian Church, corner of Pierrepont Street and Monroe Place, this coming Wednesday, March 11. Doors will open at 6:00 pm; the meeting will begin at 6:30.

This meeting is free and open to the public, and we encourage everyone to attend.  It is a wonderful opportunity to hear about our focus for the neighborhood in 2026 and all of the exciting events we have planned!

You can also celebrate our Community Service Award winners, get your questions answered during our Q&A and then meet our staff, Board of Governors and your neighbors at the community reception immediately following the meeting.

The Community Service Award honorees are listed, and if you plan to attend, please RSVP here.

The BHA thanks its Neighborhood Service Partner, The Watermark, for its support of the event.

Update: reader Andrew Porter lets us know the meeting will feature a raffle with prizes from local merchants, new members signing up at the meeting will be given a tin of coffee beans from Brooklyn Roasting Company, and BHA will present an award to Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who formerly represented Broklyn Heights, on the occasion of her retirement.

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Sorry for the late notice; things have been hectic. Tomorrow  (Monday, March 2) at 7:oo pm online join Heather Wolf, Brooklyn’s avian maven and author of Find More Birds, who has led many bird walks in Brooklyn Bridge Park, “as she discusses the many fascinating functions of bird feathers—they’re not just for flight and warmth! ” There will be time for Q&A after. The Zoom session is free, sponsored by the Ashland Public Library; you can register here.

This coming weekend – late Friday evening, February 27 through early Monday morning, March 2 – there will be no Brooklyn bound service at High Street as Brooklyn bound A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line between West 4th Street-Washington Square and Jay Street-MetroTech. This means extra Brooklyn bound service at York Street in DUMBO.

The following work week – Monday morning, March 2 through Friday evening, March 6 – late nights Monday to Tuesday through Thursday to Friday the Brooklyn bound A train re-routing to the F line will continue, and since there is no late night C train service, there will be no Brooklyn bound late night service at High Street, and extra Brooklyn bound service at York Street. The same late nights 4 train service will be suspended in both directions between Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and New Lots Avenue, so there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, but 2 and 3 trains should be running normally, and those traveling to or from the East Side of Manhattan can transfer between the 4 or 5 and the 2 or 3 at Borough Hall in Manhattan.

These are the PLANNED changes affecting local service for this weekend and for the following week. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect stations to or from which you may be traveling. You can also get real time service alerts: register here.