Thursday Events

Underbridge Pictures: Brooklyn Navy-Yard Opening
Today, Underbridge Pictures presents an opening reception for David Sokosh’s exhibition “The Brooklyn Navy-Yard.” Using Wet-Plate Collodion equipment, Sokosh provides an unusual glimpse of the United States Naval Hospital at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. The exhibition runs through Sunday, November 11. Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Underbridge Pictures, 111 Front Street Gallery 202 DUMBO. (718) 596-0390.

Secrets of Coney Island Creek
Today, the Brooklyn College Library hosts a reception and lecture with writer and photographer Charles Denson, the Executive Director of the Coney Island History Project. He will speak on the topic Coney Island Creek: The Future of the Past, discussing historic and environmental aspects of the creek. An accompanying exhibit of photographs and artifacts will be on view in the Library through November 2. Thursday, 6:00 p.m. reception; 7:15 p.m. lecture. 2900 Bedford Avenue. (718) 951-5335.

Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn
Tonight Brooklyn Reading Works presents poets Phillis Levin, Andrea Baker, Patricia Spears Jones, and Tom Sleigh featured in the book, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. The Old Stone House at Fifth Avenue and 3rd Street. at 8 p.m. $5 donation includes light refreshments.

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