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Brooklyn Heights HOMELAND warning!

Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, DUMBO

The Brooklyn Heights Association put out a notice about Showtime's HOMELAND television show's plans for a huge gun battle, exploding SUVs, soldiers and presidential motorcade on Sunday, February 19, in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. This is just a TV show and IS NOT REAL!

Tilt Kids Festival

Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Beyond South Brooklyn

The Tilt Kids Festival multidisciplinary festival presents five world premieres and four U.S. debuts from artists spanning the globe at venues throughout New York City from March 4 through April 16, including Hervé Tullet at the Invisible Dog in Boerum Hill.

For the third consecutive year, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair will return to New York from May 5th to 7th, 2017, at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works in Red Hook.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to Red Hook in 2017

Red Hook

For the third consecutive year, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, a reference to fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, will return to New York from May 5th to 7th, 2017, at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works in Red Hook.

Ski for MS

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, DUMBO, Gowanus, Park Slope, Red Hook, Beyond South Brooklyn

Ski for MS stops at four of our favorite ski areas in the northeast hitting the slopes of Loon Mountain in New Hampshire (Feb. 4), Whiteface Mountain (Feb. 5), Belleayre Mountain (Feb. 11) and Gore Mountain (March 4) in New York.

The blanket Executive Order signed by President Trump has caused respected Washington D.C. photojournalist Eman Mohammed to cancel her plans to serve as a judge of the prestigious World Photo competition in Amsterdam.

Photojournalist Eman Mohammed and the Immigration Ban

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, DUMBO, Gowanus, Park Slope, Red Hook, Beyond South Brooklyn

Respected Washington D.C. photojournalist Eman Mohammed canceled her plans to serve as a judge at the World Photo competition in Amsterdam because of the Executive Order signed by President Trump.

From December through March, 2017, BBG presents its First Sundays series of activities and FREE winter weekday admission through February 2017!

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Winter: Free Weekdays/First Sundays

Park Slope

From December through March, 2017, BBG presents its First Sundays series of activities and FREE winter weekday admission through February 2017!

A tribute to John Glenn, one of America's first astronauts, whose life led many children to gaze at the stars.

Godspeed John Glenn

Beyond South Brooklyn

A tribute to John Glenn, one of America's first astronauts, whose life led many children to gaze at the stars. I was one of them.

Brooklyn is hottest place to spend New Year's Eve with a ball drop in Coney Island and a 150th anniversary fireworks show that rivals anything around the world.

A Brooklyn New Year's Eve

Park Slope, Beyond South Brooklyn

Real New Yorkers know that Brooklyn is hottest place to spend the coolest night of the year with New Year's Eve parties along Coney Island's historic Riegelmann Boardwalk and Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park for the 150th anniversary fireworks show that rivals anything around the world.

As part of PS122’s Coil Festival, The Invisible Dog Art Center co-presents the U.S. premiere of Worktable, an installation by Kate McIntosh from January 5 to 9, 2017.

Worktable by Kate McIntosh

Boerum Hill

Here's your chance to be destructive in the name of art. Take a watch, beat the watch with a hammer, put it back together. How's that for art? As part of the twelfth edition of PS122’s Coil Festival, Performance Space 122 and The Invisible Dog Art Center co-present the U.S. premiere of Worktable, an installation by Kate McIntosh from January 5 to 9, 2017.

Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom at Killington in the AUDI FIS Ski World Cup Slalom and proves that the East Coast should become a regular stop on the World Cup.

Mikaela Shiffrin wins 21st World Cup Slalom at Killington

Beyond South Brooklyn

Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom at Killington in the AUDI FIS Ski World Cup Slalom and proves that the East Coast should become a regular stop on the World Cup.