Brooklyn on Film, 1899-2007: Free Screening at the BHS

The Brooklyn Historical Society are putting on a free screening tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7pm. It sounds excellent: "Films from the earliest days of cinematic technology, including the Edison Studios motion picture records of Brooklyn in the 1890s, and Sarah Bernhardt addressing a crowd in Prospect Park in 1917, will be shown. The screening will also include short documentaries about Brooklyn’s diverse neighborhoods and people. One of which, Brooklyn: Among the Ruins directed by Suzanne Wasserman, introduces audiences to Brooklyn born and bred Paul Kronenberg. Paul is a 60 year-old subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman's subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn."

Park Slope Halloween Parade

Borough President Marty Markowitz joined in the frightening parade on 7th Avenue last night.

Secrets of Coney Island Creek: Photo Show

Images courtesy of Charles Denson An exhibition of over 100 photographs by Charles Denson opens tonight at the Brooklyn College Library. Denson is the author of Coney Island Lost and Found, easily the most comprehensive and engaging Coney history we've read. The reception is tonight, Thursday, October 18 and the exhibit runs through to November 2. Here's more from the press release: "Denson’s subjects include Voodoo and African-Christian ceremonies performed in the Creek’s “holy waters”; fishermen of diverse Southeast Asian cultures; the abandoned yellow submarine, spooky shipwrecks, and treasures dredged out of the Creek. The environmental challenge documented in the photos is the ongoing remediation of the Creek by Keyspan. The exhibit also features archival photos from the 1800s, artifacts dredged out of the Creek, and Coney Island’s oldest existing artifact, an 1823 Toll House sign. For additional info about the exhibition and Charles Denson, a Coney Island native who began documenting the Creek in the 1960s and 1970s, please visit coneyislandhistory.org The Brooklyn College Library is located at 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Library hours are Mon-Thurs, 9 am- 9 pm; Friday, 9am -5 pm; and Sat.-Sun. 10 am -6 pm. Tel. 718-951-5346 (Special Collections) or 718-951-4540 (Desk). Directions: Take the Q local to Ave H station or the #2 or #5 to the Flatbush Ave/Nostrand Ave. Station. Please visit brooklyn.cuny.edu for additional directions. Admission is free."

Wordless Music XI

Solo artist Sandro Perri (above) played selections from Tiny Mirrors and Plays Polmo Polpo at the Wordless Music concert on Friday at the Good Shepherd Faith Church on the UWS. Nico Muhly performed selected work from Speaks Volumes with Valgeir Sigurdsson (below left), Abby Fischer (second left), Sigga Sunna Reynisdottir, Nadia Sirota, Dan Bora, Lisa Liu and Sam Solomon.