Weekday Events

Fight For Your Right To Coney!
Lola Staar and the Save Coney Island group presents “Fight For Your Right to Coney,” a rock and roll extravaganza. The event features the music of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Kissy Kamikaze, Tyburn Saints, and an array of carnivalesque performers. DJ Ole will be spinning dance party music. Proceeds will go to Save Coney Island, a grassroots organization committed to preserving the spirit of Coney Island. You can buy advance tickets here.
Tuesday, March 31. 7:30 p.m. Advance:12, Day of: $15. The Bell House, 149 7th Street.

Walking Tour of Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights
Big Onion leads walking tours through various neighborhoods, mainly Manhattan, but this tour focuses on the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights. You will be crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and strolling through the neighborhood of BH. Stops could include Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Church, examples of 19th century architecture, and sites associated with Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Arthur Miller. The tour concludes on the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights.
Thursday, April 2. 1 p.m. $15. Meet at the southeast corner of Broadway and Chambers Street at City Hall Park (in Manhattan).

LJ Davis & Jonathan Lethem Discussion of “A Meaningful Life”
Lethem and Davis will team up to discuss the New York Review of Book’s re-release of Davis’ 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life. The book’s premise is that through the purchase and renovation of a rotting Brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, failed writer Lowell Lake attempts to make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his pathetic life, and he will even murder to do it. Davis is the father of Lethem’s childhood best pal who wrote an introduction for the new publication.
Tuesday, March 31. 7 p.m. Free. Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue.

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Public Hearing for Coney Island Comprehensive Plan
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will hold a public hearing for Coney Island’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
Tonight. 5 p.m. Brooklyn Borough Hall (Court Room on second floor), 209 Joralemon Street.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden and NFBID Workshop
The North Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement District and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens will host a workshop for the event, “Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest.” This contest is open to all commercial and residential buildings in the North Flatbush Avenue District from Plaza Street to Atlantic Avenue. Susan Fields, program director of the BBG, is hosting the workshop to explain how you can enter the contest. NFBID will pass out complimentary seed packets to help start your garden.
Tuesday, March 31. 9:30-11 a.m. The Christian Science Reading Room, 383 Flatbush Avenue.

The 100th Birthday of Two Great Bridges: The Queensboro & The Manhattan
This event is a lecture with John Kriskiewicz. The scale and scope of these projects were illustrative of the national Progressive Era City Beautiful Movement as well as new technology and aesthetic ideas. You can purchase tickets online here or call 212-935-2075.
Thursday, April 2. 7-8 p.m. $15. The Municipal Art Society, 457 Madison Avenue (in Manhattan).

“A Brooklyn Bridge Prank—or How the Bridge Almost Wasn’t” Discussion
Sponsored by the Society of Old Brooklynites, this talk will discuss the history of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Wednesday, April 1. 6:30 p.m. Free. Supreme Court Building, Court and Montague streets (on the third floor).