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5 Things: Celebrate Brooklyn!, Pins and Needles, Subway Changes, More

Prospect Heights-area information and events you won't want to miss.

1. You need music. Head to the Prospect Park Bandshell for  Tonight the Roy Hargrove Quintet and The Badwagon play. 7:30pm (but get there early) Prospect Park W & 9th St. Free.

2. You need a good show. Head to the Irondale Center for its production of , a revival of the 1937 hit musical, performed by members of FUREE, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (See our preview of the show, which will be published later this morning). 85 S Oxford St. 7:30 p.m. $25.

3. You need to play chess. Head to the Central Library where there are separate groups for chess for and for beginning at 4 p.m.  Teens meet in the  Youth Wing's Teen Reading Room from 4-5 p.m. Aduts met in the Art/Music Divison on the 3rd Floor from 4 to 5:45 p.m. Free.

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4. You need to get the kids out of the house. Head to the Prospect Park Zoo where there is the Sea Lion Feeding at 11:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., & 4:00 p.m. $8 adults, $5 kids 3-12 and senior citizens. Or, see or .

5. You need to know if your train is running and if you have to move your car. Brooklyn-bound 2, 3 and 4 trains are skipping Bergen, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway stations all weekend, beginning tonight at 11 p.m., according to the MTA. As for moving your car – the next alternate side suspension isn't until July 4, according to the NYC DOT.

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