Perhaps the Green Boroughs Walking Tour of Park Slope green businesses would be of interest? It will take place on Sunday, July 27. Per an email: The Green Boroughs Walking Tour of Park Slope will take you to the newest, coolest, greenest retail stores, green buildings, community gardens, parks and other green places in Park […]

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We were going to call 30 Second Life a “new” Brooklyn blog, except that’s it’s been around since December, so it’s only new to us. Regardless, it’s being produced out of Park Slope and it features 30-second slice-of-life clips. The creator emails to say: “The blog is about my day to day interactions with the […]

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Do you have any design and planning skills? Want to try your hand at redesigning a fairly wretched Brooklyn street and intersection? Your moment has arrived. Transportation Alternatives is sponsoring a “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition for the intersection. They say “We are looking for new conceptual and physical approaches to the planning of […]

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“I, atypical Park Sloper, childless and unemployed, heard the fireworks going off around 10 PM on busy 5th Avenue. No one turned, no one blinked, no one cared. Just because a handful of Park Slopers know how to make their whining heard does not mean they represent all of us. Park Slope earns some of […]

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Anyone living in Gowanus or in Park Slope has no doubt been seeing or hearing the cool late night fireworks displays that people have been setting off for at least the last week or so. Not everyone is so enamored of them. Per another Park Slope Parents email that has come our way from a […]

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The Department of Transportation has seriously scrambled alternate side parking regulations in Park Slope as part of the reduction in overall time from three hours to 90 minutes. On most streets, the days themselves have been changed and we don’t think it’s going out on a limb to predict that this will prompt some very […]

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We were really hoping for a playground-free day today, but it is not to be. Having posted last week about a Park Slope Parent members widely-circulated email complaining of employees at Harmony Playground arguing, curing and smoking, we’re glad to see the response from Prospect Park. Park spokeperson Eugene Patron, who always keeps people informed […]

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One of the issues that Park Slope residents have raised during the Great Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Experiment, which is coming to an end on July 14, is that it has led to a lot of clogged catch basins. While the general “filth” in the street argument may be overblown, there appears to be […]

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There are many theories about how to best handle a Traffic Enforcement Officer who might be writing you a ticket, ranging from submission to confrontation and everything in between. A week ago we watch someone scream and yell long enough that real two NYPD cars showed up on the scene. In any case, the issue […]

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We’ve had cruddy playgrounds this week and surly employees last week and gyrating nannies recently, but here’s our first report of playground proselytizing courtesy of a compelling Park Slope Parents posted email sent to us by one of our reliable and dedicate Park Slope source who enjoys sharing the wealth of info with the public […]

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Did the Great Park Slope Parking Experiment, which generated a disproportionate number of news articles and led to some vocal complaints, make it harder or easier to park? The Department of Transportation has posted a survey and is trying to get a sense of whether it made it harder to mark, easier or made no […]

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Park Slopers can kiss the suspension of Alternate Side Park regulations goodbye on July 14. The Department of Transportation has announced that all the neighborhood’s alternate side parking signs will have been changed from 3 hours to 90 minutes that the Great park Slope Parking Experiment, which has led to great joy among the majority […]

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The Great Park Slope Battle of the Bruschetta is continuing. Hot on the heels of the opening of (the utterly wretched) Aperitivo, comes word that the space that used to be Cocotte on Fifth Avenue is going Italian. Per a post on Brooklynian Walked by the old Cocotte space today and spoke to the owner […]

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Yes, it’s Sunday, which means it’s time for our weekly Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection selection. Today, we have our first Missed Connection story story. It’s an epic concerning a bike ride up a hill in Park Slope, which is either a true missed connection or just a creative writing exercise (better odds). Either way, it’s […]

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This reminds us of the roach in the Kung Pao Shrimp in a long closed restaurant we were once treated to, but it concerns a sandwich order from Fuel on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope that is said to have had a bit more fuel than the customer had bargained for. It raises the question: […]

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These are what one might call the Fourth Avenue Friends, looking at each other across Carroll Street. The one on the left is something we called The Shaft when it was rising without windows. It has gained them, but the tall, skinny building generally draws curious looks because it is so, dare we say, Finger-like. […]

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Here’s the schedule for music, film and theater at JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope for next month. The Tuesday dates are music. The Wednesday dates are film. Everything is free. All activities take place outside, of course: July 1: Opera on Tap, 6 PM & 8 PM July 2: 1776, 8:45 […]

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There are many alternate side parking signs being replaced in Park Slope. So many, in fact, that alternate side rules have been famously suspended until further notice, leading to complaints by some residents that it’s harder to park and that the streets are dirtier. We haven’t noticed either to particularly be the case, but we […]

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The Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Hiatus may be coming to an end relatively soon, possibly in as little as three week. Council Member Bill de Blasio sent us the following email: In light of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) recent suspension of alternate side parking rules, many of my constituents have expressed concern regarding […]

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We have another entry for the long list of Park Slope openings and closings that we’ve been reporting in recent weeks and that will, no doubt, be noted elsewhere too: A new restaurant called Shinjuku II will be opening on Seventh Avenue in the space formerly occupied by Inaka Sushi, which closed over the winter. […]

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ISlice did a Park Slope Slice Walk, sampling all the pizzerias from Flatbush Avenue and the Prospect Expressway to the north and south, and Fourth Avenue and Prospect Park West to the west and east. They checked on places where slices are available. The results are interesting. Lenny’s on Fifth Avenue was “a highlight.”–Slice

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Remember the story we had last week of a scary knife attack on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope? The attacker has been caught. Per the New York Post: A violent ex-con who had violated his parole in April was still free to brutally attack a professional dancer from Park Slope, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Russo, […]

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It looks like some workers were behaving badly at the Harmony Playground in Park Slope this week. (This is not to be confused with the workers smoking at the same playground or with the recently wet ‘n wild gyrating nanny.) The story comes through our Park Slope Network in the form of a forwarded email […]

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There was a steady stream of people wandering past Park Slope’s soon-to-be Red Hot II on Seventh Avenue yesterday evening looking into the windows and taking new carry out and delivery menus. There is a new sign outside and a slightly new look inside as well. The restaurant is reopening on Saturday with a menu […]

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The new Bank of America branch coming to Seventh Avenue has lost the bright red fence that had been surrounding it and the sign has gone up on the neighboring Five Guys Burger. It’s safe to assume a July opening for both. Well, at least for the Five Guys, which has had a sign up […]

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