Do you dig people texting, sending emails and IMs and talking on their cell phones during dinner? Well, here’s a fun rant (what better thing than a rant on a Friday?) from Brooklynian that originates at Al Di La. It also veers from Blackberries and iPhones to shorts, t-shirts and flip flops: I’ll just say […]

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A longtime GL reader sent us an email asking if we could post something about an event that neighbors on 12th Street are having tomorrow. Of course, we can: The following is about a Bake Sale that is going to benefit Operation Backpack….Neighbors from 438 and 444 12th Street (between 7th and 8th Aves) are […]

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“A friend of mine was actually on the playground and apparently it was pretty scary. Police were called when there was no adult claiming the kid for almost 45 minutes. Not the typical ‘not doing her job’ thing from what I heard. Looked like the kid could have ended up on the cover of the […]

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More tales of woe from the Harmony Playground in Park Slope, this one coming to us from Park Slope Parents via Brooklynian. It’s about a marble-eating child at the Harmony Playground, which is the site of many dramatic incidents: Last week my mother in law watched a baby eat 3 marbles from a game near […]

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The new laundromat on Fifth Avenue in the Slope near Union Street is open, and local blogger Kristen Haas files a review for GL: The signs have been there FOREVER and now finally the Laundromat on 5th Avenue b/t Union and Sackett opened! I had to go this past Saturday, it was too tempting. I […]

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Last night’s “Night Out Against Crime” featured a huge gathering a public officials, including Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, at Grand Army Plaza. Per a press release from the Prospect Park Alliance, which also widely distributed photos of the event: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly joined the […]

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The official announcement is being made this morning at 10AM on the block in question, but the Greenest Block in Brooklyn for 2008 is Eighth Street between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West. There were 13 semi-finalists from East Flatbush and from Park Slope. Ironically, the block in question was torn up by sewer construction […]

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200 Fifth (on 5th Avenue b/t Union and Sackett) is always packed, especially on game nights, but the whole left side of the restaurant is currently closed up. They have a sign up that says the kitchen is closed and it’s temporary. (There are DOB permits up indicating renovation work.) For now, if you are […]

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The Park Slope Parents Mailbag bring news of a “Disturbing Incident at Ninth Street Playground,” where reports of various things originate from time to time. It is about a report from a babysitter “very upset about an incident” at the playground: It involved a 12-18 month old boy who was wearing only a diaper and […]

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Fourth Avenue has always been full of garages, tire places and other businesses catering to everyone’s automotive needs. In fact, it still is, although places are slowly falling to development pressure. In any case, it was nice to see that the shaft-like apartment building at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street, next to […]

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Here’s one from the Brooklynian grape vine about a possible retail development that is both fascinating and tantalizing: a bagel shop may be coming to the one un-rented space where D’Agostino’s had been on Seventh Avenue. The rest of the space has been taken, of course, by Bank of America and Five Guys Burgers. Here’s […]

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Applewares, the retail spin off of Applewood, has become the latest casualty among Park Slope retailers whose future was, at best, suspect. A poster on Brookynian reports that it closed this week and that the space is being cleared out. Reaction is not particularly of the upset variety. For instance, one person writes “that place […]

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“That place was great. 5th ave looks like shit with all these new buildings everywhere, who’s moving into these they all look vacant to me, the developers and greedy owners of the condo building are ruthless and don’t care how they are affecting my neighborhood. They stole my view of Manhattan from my apt. that […]

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[Photo courtesy of meL in Progress] The Fifth Avenue Farm, a store at Fifth Ave. & Fifteenth Street that was known for having friendly owners and a good selection of produce, closed a couple of weeks ago. The blogger who produces the meL in Progress blog emailed us to say: It used to be a […]

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Earlier we related that a sign of some sort had been spotted in the window of the vacant Second St. Cafe on Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue. GL contacted KidsRx, which has a store on Hudson Street in the West Village, and can exclusively confirm that the retailer is, indeed, opening at Seventh Ave. and Second […]

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The last time we checked the site of Park Slope’s defunct Second Street Cafe (on Saturday) there was a big “for rent” sign in the window. But there’s a report today on Brooklynian that “a new sign in the window of 2nd St Cafe says ‘Children’s Rx’ or maybe it was ‘Kid’s Rx’ is coming. […]

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“We went tonight with our 2 year old and honestly there were no such events. When I asked the guy taking the tickets where I could park my stroller he looked at me like I was from another planet.”–Stroller Olympics at Cyclones Game Today

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We don’t know what to make of this post on Brooklynian and the allegations it contains except to say that it’s disturbing. Most Park Slope resident know the people that sell fruit at Seventh Ave. & President Street. This is about some alleged abuse that was going on yesterday: On the way to the subway […]

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We have been very remiss in not mentioning “The Cyclones Love Park Slope Night” at KeySpan Park. It happens today at 5PM and is full of Park Slope gimmicks like valet stroller parking and a “stroller olympics. The Cylcones website has a full rundown on the activities (and we’d love to have been on hand […]

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Not only is the new Bank of America branch on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope open, but the Five Guys Burgers has opened as well. We saw a fair sized crowd inside yesterday lined up for burgers and such, a large number of them moms with kids. On a related note, the Tea Lounge on […]

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Yesterday, we posted an email about living in Brooklyn without a car from the Park Slope Parents list that a community-minded reader had dropped into our inbox. Today, we have one of the responses to that email that bubbles over with energy. Check it out, because it’s that good: When I read your post title […]

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For a long time the site where these condos are rising at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Tenth Street in Park Slope was a garden with big trees. No longer. The Church of Gethsemane sold the property to a developer and a lot of work has been done to turn the garden into a […]

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The Seventh Avenue Tea Lounge in Park Slope closed yesterday. The “last day” was reported on both Brooklynian and on Park Slope Parents. A Park Slope Parents email said in part: “Well, tonight is the last day to lounge at the 10th street Tea Lounge, a sad day for all South Slopers. A perfect meeting […]

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Here’s an email that originated with the Park Slope Parents group that we think is thoughtful enough and interesting enough to present to readers. It deals with the issue of how to live in Brooklyn without a car, which is a topic which many readers, no doubt, have opinions about. Here are some excerpts: We’ve […]

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We’re surprised that news of this didn’t trickle out via local message boards or email lists, but there’s apparently a flasher on the loose in Park Slope. “The man exposed himself to a 14-year-old girl after pushing his way into her apartment building two weeks ago. ‘I’m not gonna hurt you; I’ve got something to […]

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