Sneak peak: check out the finished product on Sunday!
Here’s another reason to take advantage of tomorrow’s Heart of Brooklyn Free Summer Sunday cultur-palooza with free admission and special programs at six BK institutions including Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo and the carousel: Brokelyn will be there with sweet surprises! Come say hi to Team Brokelyn at our table in Grand Army Plaza next to the (free) Brooklyn Icons mini-golf, from 12-5pm. In addition to games and Brooklyn-themed goodies, we’ve got a big present for you: the debut of our brand-new, super-stylish Brokelyn t-shirts! The designers shirts come from Brooklyn Royalty‘s Bob Bland and sell for only $20.
(In the event of rain, we’ll be in the Brooklyn Public Library)
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thru sun: the u.s. coast guard’s 295-foot long tall ship ‘eagle’ opens for free public tours at brooklyn’s pier 7 as part of her 75th birthday
7pm: ra ra riot, delicate steve, and buke and gass play the final free celebrate brooklyn concert of the summer. prospect park bandshell, $3 suggested donation. Read the rest of this entry »
Zoo photo via Flickr's Ann Marie Hughes
Pack up the kids, call your friends in from the suburbs and start massaging your brain so it’s ready to soak in some juicy local culture: on Aug. 7, you get free access to Brooklyn’s six big culture institutions all day long. Heart of Brooklyn’s Free Summer Sunday provides free entry to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Prospect Park carousel and a special exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library. Plus, free Brooklyn Icons mini golf at Grand Army Plaza, prizes, raffles and more. And Brokelyn is proud to be a web partner for the event! Read the rest of this entry »
FreeWilliamsburg’s CMJ showcase today is just 58 cents per band! [FreeWilliamsburg]
Lists of all open bars and booze specials every day of the fest [Booze Party]
The ultimate guide to ultimate CMJ guides [Paste]
Give your opinion on Prospect Park W bike lanes; protests planned Thursday [OTBKB]
VV’s Best of NY lauds Sunday Best, Marty Markowitz, Word and more [Village Voice]
Michelle Obama honors Heart of Brooklyn at White House today [Heart of Brooklyn]
Win a 2-hour bowling concert party at Brooklyn Bowl [ScoutMob]
Call Linus: The largest pumpkin ever seen is coming to NY on Friday [CityRoom]
Red pandas share a branch at the Prospect Park Zoo. We can see where this is headed.
NSFW animal-mating demos are just one of of the attractions of a weekend-long love-fest sponsored by the Heart of Brooklyn, the partnership of cultural institutions near Grand Army Plaza. On Saturday, it’s love, family-style for stories and card decoration at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s “I love you because…” from 11:30 to 12:30 and 2:30 to 3:30. On Sunday, you can take free old-fashioned trolley rides through the neighborhood and Prospect Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or glide hand-in-hand at Wollman Rink with half-priced admission from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. The Prospect Park Zoo is offering some less-wholesome (but still perfectly natural) amusement in their “Animal Dating and Mating” program from 2 to 3:30, which explores reproductive strategies, “why size really does matter” and a live animal demo! See HOB’s complete list of V-weekend events and attractions here.
If Hungarian gypsy tones make you hungry or if mustache-making sessions make you want to wet your own, just walk outside the Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow evening and take a look around. That’s Prospect Heights you see, and the neighborhood has plenty of its own diversions, from the drinks at Franklin Park Bar or the chicken at El Gran Castillo de Jagua. To help with your local exposure, Heart of Brooklyn (ever the BK ambassador) has launched the HOB Connection—a free shuttle bus to local food, drinks and shopping on every Target First Saturday at the museum. The shuttle leaves the museum at 5 p.m., and makes half-hour loops through neighborhood strips until 11. More info and full schedule here.
Prospect Park Carousel photo, Amy Rathgeb.
If you think the Carousel, zoo and acres of romp-worthy fields make Prospect Park a child-friendly place, well… you’re right, and there’s about to be more for the summer. Starting today, and on every Friday through August, the park will host Heart of Brooklyn’s Family Fridays, a weekly day of animals, education and snacks at the park’s Children’s Corner (entrance at Ocean Ave., Flatbush Ave. & Empire Blvd.). Read the rest of this entry »
How come every Brooklyn neighborhood doesn’t have one of these? We’re loving the new Prospect Heights coupon book full of deals at the fun shops and restaurants along Washington and Vanderbilt avenues. The booklet (left), published by non-profit Heart of Brooklyn, is not only a genius idea, it also looks cute. Inside are 46 coupons that map out a day well-spent (literally) in PH. Read the rest of this entry »
