Is it possible that a relic of the past was treated with more respect in Queens than in Brooklyn? Forgotten NY’s latest installment offers an interesting comparison. Well, possibly, at least in the case of the fate of one of the old R33 Redbird subway cars has been turned into a visitors center at the […]

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It’s been all of about two weeks since we came across a bitter rant about how badly the Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West sucks. Well, with the opening weekend of Dark Knight more people than usual went to sample the theater’s charms and came away with love for the place. Here’s a charming tale […]

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It didn’t take long for Park Slopers to focus on the clusterf new alternate side parking regulations that went into effect this week. They are not going over well with some people. Someone over at Brooklynian event created a full color coded Google Map to show the new regime. The creator, who posts as 8thandPrez, […]

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The power outages that affected parts of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park on Sunday have been mostly cleared up, at least, according to Con Ed’s outage map. (Each green triangle is 1-50 people without power). The trouble was caused by malfunctions with 4 of the 12 big feeder cables. About 2,000 […]

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Musician Charles Sibersky sent us (another others) an email about his performance this week on the 24th at Aji, which is a new spot on Ninth Street below Fifth Avenue,asking for a shout out: Come out and support live jazz at 9st Street’s newest restaurant. Located at 287 9ST(4th &5th Aves.) in the Park Slope […]

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With people moving into the Novo Park Slope sometime before the end of the decade (well, actually, quite soon), it’s time to ask: will they be able to get a cab? This photo, which we shot recently, would seem to indicate that the answer is yes. On the other hand, they’re only cabs belonging to […]

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This is the stars-and-stripes steer thing in front of the new (and, in our opinion, tragically named) Flipsters in Park Slope on Seventh Avenue. The restaurant is the replacement for the ill-fated (and somewhat reviled by some) Brooklyn Burger Bar. Whether Flipsters is more highly regarded remains to be seen. We have no idea what […]

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Those who are looking forward to having a Bank of America branch on Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street in Park Slope as well as a Five Guys burger place should be elated: both are on the verge of opening, with the bank appearing a tad closer. Those who still miss the D’Agostino’s and the Gothic […]

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Park Slope’s Stoop Sale Flier Ripper is a legend in the neighborhood for walking up and down local streets and ripping down any fliers that have been taped up. We’ve watched him in action as has many Park Slopers as he goes from pole to pole tearing down everything that’s been taped up. (In this […]

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“The familial piece of the story makes this more complicated. But the issue of soaring rents and closing businesses is a common and troubling one throughout the borough (and beyond). After the initial sadness of these closings fade, many are left wanting recourse, action. Is there room for public suasion in this case– and, indeed, […]

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There is someone near Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street in Park Slope who does not like graffiti. He or she has been annotating graffiti on construction fences in the area for some time. Often the Annotator corrects spelling and leaves notes to the effect that the graffiti writer is the product of a poor public […]

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On Friday, we posted a photo of the A&S Pork Store on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. We put it up because it was a GL Flickr Pool picture and just thought it was a cool image. What we’ve learned since then is that the A&S Park Store, which is the last surviving butcher shop […]

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The Gold Era of No Alternate side Parking in Park has drawn to a close as alternate side regs are being imposed again as of today. Most stret have not only had the time needs for street cleaning cut from three hours to 90 minutes, but most familiar street cleaning times have been change. Check […]

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We posted about the SEPTA car on Fourth Avenue next to the Lyceum in Park Slope on Friday. It’s an odd landmark that is currently being hacked up, but it could have been saved according to GL readers. On Friday, we had a sad photo of the car being ripped apart in preparation for a […]

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It’s over. As previously announced, alternate side parking regulations will return to Park Slope tomorrow, including a myriad of changes that are likely to drive many residents even more insane than not having have the regulations since May. (The DOT page on the changes is here.) As for the reaction from residents (some of whom […]

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Here’s a complaint about the Siege of the Kohl’s Fliers in Park Slope from our well supplied Park Slope Parents email bag: Every week, walking around in this neighborhood, I pass hundreds of bundles of fliers in the Kohl’s bag. It’s pretty appalling to me that as many of us are trying to cut down […]

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It’s official: the building on the corner of Sixth Street and Fifth Avenue is one of the Slope’s Restaurant Corners of Death. (There are others that we wish would be similarly cursed, but that escape, year in and year out.) The corner in question most recently housed Mediterra, although some might recall it as another […]

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This could be one of the saddest sights we’ve seen on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue that isn’t related to hideous architecture of a violation of the streetscape that we’ve seen in a long, long time. This is the current state of the old SEPTA trolley car that has sat on a property […]

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If the details in this post on the Park Slope Forum of Brooklynian are accurate, the incident related from Second Street is utterly vile. The key part is where some people tell a woman of Caribbean heritage who lives on Second Street in the Slope to “go back to your own neighborhood.” It doesn’t involve […]

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“I was a kid in the neighborhood in the late 30’s and shined shoes in front of Diamonds with my Friend who would become my Brother in law after the war. I remember a Packard touring car pulling up to the curb and several men in long coats got out and went into the bar […]

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Today is the Park Slope Parents Sixth anniversary and they are celebrating and also pointing to a PSP thread from several years ago about swinging. Meanwhile, earlier today, Racked had an angry rant from a Sloper who took a $14 cab ride and found the Red Hook Ikea to be out of the crib she […]

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Another children’s shop has been born on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, filling in one another one of the gaps on what we had called the Block of Death because of all of the empty storefronts over the winter. Carmen’s Exclusives for Children has been open for a bit, but we swung by in order […]

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[Photo courtesy of weenieart/GL Flickr Pool] This contribution to our GL Photo Pool comes from weenieart and captures some sidewalk sale action on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. The obligatory strollers are included in the sale, of course.

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Here from the Park Slope Parents email list forwarded to us by a community-minded PSP member who keeps us supplied, is a riveting question about getting a ticket for drinking wine in Prospect Park and coop board approval: My friend got a ticket today in Prospect Park for being at a small 8-person picnic gathering […]

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Park Slope residents have been increasingly upset about the LaGuardia landing pattern that takes planes over Prospect Park. They say the noise has been getting worse and there was a report that a new landing beacon would alter the flight path. Not so. The FAA says there’s no plan to change the landing pattern.–NYT

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