These barricades, newly dug and filled hole and pipe come to us from Fifth Avenue in Park Slope near Douglass Street. The site in question used to have a tree stump and we’re not entirely certain how the issue of bicycles comes into play here, except that it clearly does. We’re pretty sure it’s unrelated […]

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So, here’s one about a guy wandering around the fringe of Park Slope that appeared in a post on Brooklynian: Has anyone else noticed a guy hanging out on Dean and Bergen between 4th and 5th? I’ve been seeing him several times a day for the past couple months. He is always carrying a black […]

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“My family is planning to move out of Park Slope, and like so many others, we are looking in Montclair and Maplewood. We have seen a few houses in Maplewood that are in our price range, but we are really not familiar with the neighborhoods there. Some of the places we’ve seen are near Maplecrest […]

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A Special GL Correspondent emailed us with this photo to note that an old Park Slope friend, Law and Order, is shooting on Fifth Avenue today. The location is around First and Second Streets.

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Ninth Street is not only going atomic, but the space into which a new Atomic Wings will be moving has an interesting back story. A tipster emails with word of the new Atomic Wings outpost, noting that “they are putting an Atomic Wings on 9th Street, b/n 5th and 6th ave in park slope- next […]

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That wine bar on Seventh Avenue that we reported back in April would be opening as a wine bar in the old Cafe Eleven space, now has a target opening date: the first two weeks of October. Carmen on Brooklynian reports: …they’ve got their liquor license in order and are looking at inspections this week […]

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“It’s Sunday nite, around 8pm and I just got back from a walk along Prospect Park West, near Grand Army Plaza, and I found 3 bags of jewelry sitting on a park bench. Some costume, watches, rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, some gold, some that I would imagine has sentimental value to someone. Please PM me […]

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Yesterday our friends at Brownstoner ran a post about people busted for drinking on their own stoop in the Slope after Barack Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday night. The boozers got a $25 ticket for their post-Obama Stoop Party. That emails said, in party: My husband was IMing and having a beer last night on […]

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We found the Godzilla handlebar ornamentation on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. It lends a certain dignity to the bike, we think.

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Yesterday, a GL reader wrote with alarm, wondering if Beacon’s Closet on Fifth Avenue (between President and Union) in the Slope might be closing. The email read as follows: I saw on Trulia this morning that the Beacons Closet space on 5th Avenue is for rent for 8500 beginning November 15th. Can we find out […]

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Remember the A&S Pork Store, which we first reported on July 14 appeared to be on the verge of closure because its rent was going up a lot? The closure took on extra meaning because it’s the last surviving butcher shop in Park Slope. Well, the store is going to survive. A Special GL Correspondent […]

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The march of the new buildings on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope and Gowanus continues. This is 455 Fourth Avenue, a building which has a little bit of an interesting history. It was originally supposed to be a Robert Scarano building, but the embattled architect was eventually replaced by Armand Quadrini of KSQ Architects (who […]

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Is it us, or are the Park Slope Street Couches that we encounter often in much better shape than their Williamsburg, Greenpoint and other counterparts? In any case, this tan leather beauty that was hauled out as trash comes from Sixth Street near Prospect Park. There was a box spring sitting next to it, but […]

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The former storefront on Seventh Avenue that we reported on a couple of weeks ago via a Special Neighborhood Correspondent is going to be a Brooklyn branch of the footwear mini-chain Eric. The main branch is on Third Avenue at E. 76 Street. And so, the former Seventh Avenue Block of Death between Second and […]

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The mural that a group of young people from Groundswell have been painting this summer at Fourth Avenue and Sackett Street is completed and the scaffolding has come down in the last day or so. The mural is about water conservation and the environment and is painted on the side of a building adjoining a […]

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We post the photo above to ask a question rather than to offer any answers. The wall in front of the structure at 333 Fifth Avenue, we are told by a special correspondent who pays far greater attention to the local streetscape than we, appeared sometime during the summer. We do know that a building […]

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“what is this? stepford slope! Do you people need to monitor and micromanage even the use of words!!!! What a travesty. ps- Have you seen the fountain? It is beautiful and has made more people smile than anything I have ever seen . I live on its block.—pps — get a life. by the way– […]

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1) Work on the former Cocotte, which is slated to become an Italian restaurant, is well underway (above). The sign that was in the window proclaiming it an Italian place, however, is gone. 2) Slightly up the block, a new wine store will be opening up. Our strong powers of deduction told us this based […]

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On Saturday, August 16th, a “Maryland 400” remembrance ceremony was held at the Michael A. Rawley American Legion Post, located between 8th and 9th Streets and Third & Fourth Avenues. A faded New York State historic blue and yellow sign has been hanging in front of the Post on 9th Street commemorating the “Maryland Heroes” […]

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A little while ago, we had a rant from someone’s whose bike was knocked over and damaged by someone pulling out of a parking space. At least it wasn’t stolen, however: Two of my motorcycles have been stolen within 6 weeks. Both were parked right in front of my house between Bond and Nevins. Both […]

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This is part of the somewhat incoherent message that has appeared in the Slope on Seventh Avenue at the former Second Street Cafe location, which will become a Kids Rx. We’re not entirely sure what the message is supposed to say in its entirety except that we can clearly see that it’s related to child […]

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This is a self-described “rant” from Brooklynian to a person who knocked over someone’s motorcycle while pulling out of a parking space and, uh, hurt it a little bit: How did you not see my motorcycle parked right in front of your vehicle?!? Thank you for being so careless as to, while pulling out of […]

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Remember the “upsetting incident” of oral sex on the steps of 15th Street F Train stop that made a stir a couple of weeks ago? Well, the women’s shelter that was implicated in the incident has sent out an email about it, apologizing for the “graphic public vulgarity” to which someone was exposed. (There was […]

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Today’s Sunday CL Missed Connection comes to us from Park Slope and mixes bicycling, lust and romance, which are all good topics: “ya like, bikes?” cute biker on 7th ave by garfield st – w4m – 24 (park slope) it was around 12:30am tonight (friday am) and i was walking down 7th ave with my […]

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[Photo of fountain on Dean Street courtesy of adopt/le-font] First, the news: There’s a cool program allowing one to “adopt” a fountain like the one pictured above. Here is their message seeking temporary homes for the fountain: ADOPT/LE-FONT is looking for participants throughout Brooklyn to adopt and temporarily house a simple fountain. The fountains will […]

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