Wednesday Evening in East New York: At the Long Island Railroad Station on Atlantic Avenue

Saturday Night in Downtown Brooklyn: Fall Out Boy at Barclays Center

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Saturday Night in Boerum Hill: Robby Bloodshed at Hank's Saloon

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Late Sunday Afternoon in Cobble Hill: Christmas Trees at Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street

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Late Sunday Afternoon in Williamsburg: “Atlantic in Brooklyn (1971-1972)” by Aldo Tambellini at The Boiler

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Sunday Night in Crown Heights: Paul Van Dyk at Secret Warehouse 1260 Atlantic Avenue

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Late Friday Night/Early Saturday Morning in Bed-Stuy: RevoluChon Earth Initiation Warehouse Party at 1313 Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand

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Monday Night in Boerum Hill: Jeff Knurek at the Hollow Nickel

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Tuesday Night in Downtown Brooklyn: The BRT (Bennett-Rothenberg-Takeishi Trio) – Tokyo to Brooklyn Express – with Special Guest Vocalist Shelley Hirsch at Roulette

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Sunday in Boerum Hill/Brooklyn Heights: The 39th Annual Atlantic Antic

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Thursday Afternoon in Bed-Stuy: Community March and Rally to Save Interfaith Medical Center on Atlantic Avenue

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Thursday Morning at the Barclays Center: Long Lines for Shuttle Buses to Manhattan After Hurricane Sandy Floods Subway Tunnels

Some subway lines began their first limited service this morning, but there is no subway link from Brooklyn to Manhattan, only shuttle buses to take people over the bridges from Hewes Street and Broadway, at the current end of the J/M/Z trains, a couple of blocks from where we spent the summer in Williamsburg; from the A/C/F/R temporary terminus at Jay Street/MetroTech; and from the big transit hub now called Atlantic Avenue/Barclays Center.

On our uneventful R train ride from Bay Ridge, as we disembarked at Atlantic (the R station was, once upon a time, called "Pacific Street"), a loudspeaker warned us and people getting off the D train across the platform that if we wanted to avoid overcrowding on the Barclays Center shuttle buses, we should get back on the R train and take it to Jay Street.

When we got upstairs, outside the striking new arena (tonight's Nets/Knicks opener was canceled), we saw why: the lines seemed endless and slow, the buses lined up one after another but not really enough to handle the number of people who wanted to get into Manhattan. 

After listening to some people saying they'd already waited an hour, we decided to forget about going into the city and take the B38 bus into Bed-Stuy in place of the not-running G train. We are grateful some subways are running, but New York won't be New York until we can get from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back via the subway tunnels.

Sunday Morning in Brooklyn Heights: Breakfast at Brooklyn Bridge Park and a Look at the New Pop-Up Pool

e At 8 a.m. today, before it got too hot and humid, we left home, took the J train over the Williamsburg Bridge one stop to Essex, went downstairs and got an F train two stops back into Brooklyn for York Street, walked down Front Street to the Dumbo Starbucks and got a venti iced tea and a multigrain bagel, and kept walking until we got to our breakfast destination: a bench at the waterfront at Brooklyn Bridge Park. We read the Sunday Times, as we have been doing for, oh, 48 years, and at 10 a.m., we walked over to see the cool new and popular Pop-Up Pool,

which can hold sixty people, although only one or two seemed to be in the water at such an early hour.

It was so beautiful we walked all the way down to Pier 6 and walked along Atlantic Avenue until we started getting sweaty enough to want to go home. We're grateful for Sunday mornings when we don't have to work, especially when they are this pleasant.