Weekday Events

Public Workshop: A Plaza at the Putnam Triangle
The FAB Alliance and the New York City Department of Transportation present a public workshop about the planning and design of a new pedestrian plaza at the Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill. Input is sought from residents about the new public space in the community, as well as programming ideas for it. Tuesday, May 10th, 6:00-8:00 p.m., at the Grace Agard Harewood Center, 966 Fulton Street, between Cambridge Place and Grand Avenue, across from the Putnam Triangle; Free

Talk by Suleiman Osman, Author of “The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn:Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York”
Author Suleiman Osman, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, who grew up in Park Slope discusses his new book. Wednesday, May 11th, wine and cheese at 6:30 p.m., talk at 7 p.m., Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection, 2nd floor, Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza

HDC’s Annual Grassroots Preservation Awards, Featuring Mary Kay Gallagher
For the past forty one years, Mary Kay Gallagher has been working in the preservation the old-fashioned way, one house at a time. As The New York Times wrote last year, Mary Kay Gallagher got into real estate as a kind of civic duty, to help find responsible guardians for the shingled, gabled and columned behemoths in her own backyard. She sold her first house in 1970 in what would become, in 1979, the Prospect Park South Historic District a designation which she campaigned for. Her dedication to her community and neighborhood is evident on her website which details the 11 separate historic areas of Flatbush and gives details both of their history and their neighborhood associations. Thursday, May 12th, 6 p.m., Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, 75 Hicks Street (at Orange Street), Brooklyn Heights; $25/person $15/Friends of HDC, payable at the door; E-mail hdc@hdc.org or call 212.614.9107 for more information.