The state Board of Regents on Monday elected Dr. Lester Young Jr, the former superintendent of Brooklyn’s NYC School District 13, which stretches from Fort Green to DUMBO to Brooklyn Heights, as its first Black chancellor. Young, the son of famed jazz saxophonist Lester Young, grew up in Brooklyn and has worked in public service […]
Brooklyn Cat Café in Brooklyn Heights, operated by the Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition, has received a $25,000 grant from the ASPCA as part of the national Relief and Recovery Initiative, which provides funding for animal welfare organizations that have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The Brooklyn Cat Café, at 76 Montague St., initially […]
Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra is having our first virtual concert this Wednesday hosted on our website. We made St. Ann’s Church our home venue and had two very successful concerts right before the pandemic in the Fall of 2019. Since then, we have done our #Unchambered outdoor pop-up concerts on the Promenade and Fulton Ferry Landing. […]