While it would seem anecdotally that the Great Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Experiment hasn’t made it noticeably more difficult to park in most parts of the neighborhood (our own sense of the situation), there’s some concern that filth has started building up on the street. The problem involves what people are saying is more […]

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The “intrusive banner” hung by rapidnyc.com on a wall next to a Community Garden on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope has already been taken down. We wandered past yesterday evening and found that the only thing remaining of the banner, which had advertised apartments for rent, were the metal brackets holding in place. After the […]

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And, now, it’s time for a small anecdote about a little car break-in in the South Slope. (The level of such incidents in the Slope is almost non-existent compared to, say, what goes on in Williamsburg where there’s such an abundance of broken glass from car windows is almost like a weird public art project […]

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One of our Park Slope GL operatives sent along this question, which has made the rounds via the always compelling, and widely circulated, Park Slope Parents email list: A friend pointed out to me yesterday that the word “nanny” is a terribly offensive word to people of West Indian descent. “Nanny” is West Indian slang […]

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1) There is tentative joy among the delivered Chinese food crowd in Park Slope as Red Hot, which died over the winter, is on the verge of returning. The new restaurant will be called Red Hot II and it will be open next week. Telephone number: 718-369-2577. Get those Hot and Sour Soup orders ready. […]

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[Photo courtesy of a GL Correspondent] The real estate agency rapidnyc.com that put up a marketing banner on a wall over a Community Garden on Fifth Avenue at President Street is taking it down. We had the first report yesterday about anger about an “intrusive banner” that was subsequently picked up elsewhere later in the […]

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Here’s a compelling Park Slope question about what one should pay a nanny that accompanies one on vacation that was forwarded to us by a member of our growing network of Park Slope Correspondents and Operatives that reached us from the Park Slope Parents Email List: We have a part-time nanny who normally works about […]

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This story comes from Brooklynian and outlines a scary, random violent attack that apparently took place on Sixth Avenue at Lincoln Place. We haven’t verified the story, and the weapon may have been misidentified as a butcher knife, the general story appears credible: Subject: park slope attack A good friend’s girlfriend was attacked by a […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as a Historic District. Saturday, June 21 – 11am – 1 pm – with Matt Postal. In July 1973, Park Slope became an historic district, preserving one of Brooklyn’s finest residential neighborhoods. […]

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Goodbye Gowanus Condo. Hello, Elan Park Slope. Here style can, in fact, go hand in hand with a McDonald’s drive thru window. We’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that the condo on First Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues wouldn’t survive a marketing rebranding, particularly given that developers would like to call everything between the […]

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The process of renting an apartment–and all of the marketing games that go with the rental business–have made more than one Brooklynite want to barf. Now, the keepers of the community garden at Fifth Avenue and President Street are angry about an “intrusive” banner for rental apartments that has sort of become part of their […]

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The Astoria Federal Savings Bank at 10th Street and Fifth Avenue was robbed today, which led to what at first appeared to be an evacuation of MS 51 on Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue a short time later. (It was later noted that many students were outside at the time of the incident and the […]

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Our friends at Racked are bringing news that Seventh Avenue’s Bird is leaving its nest for a new spot on Fifth Avenue. Per Racked: “We’ve just received word that owner Jennifer Mankins will be shuttering the current Bird Park Slope (at 430 Seventh Ave) to open another Slope store on bustling Fifth Ave.” The Seventh […]

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[Photo courtesy of Julie Lemberger/Dusan Tynek Dance Theater] The Brooklyn Lyceum is abuzz with Czech choreographer Dusan Tynek’s latest dance creations. His seven-person, Brooklyn-based company presents two works, “Fleur-de-lis” (2007) and “Apian Way,” a premiere. The new “Apian Way,” set to partitas and sonatas by Bach, is inspired by the social interaction of bees and […]

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Is Chocolate Girl, the South Slope chocolate and candy shop on Seventh Avenue, done? Well, generally a seizure notice on the front door is not a good sign. A post on Brooklynian says: “There’s a sign on the door saying something about it being seized by Marshals….. can’t remember exactly. Sad, but not surprising given […]

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The radical makeover of the formerly cramped and blah Associated Supermarket on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope is complete. The expanded store is now open, although it’s not fully stocked and the new deli and other sections await food. The grocery took over space occupied by the Donuts Coffee Shop (whose demise was widely mourned) […]

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The annual Seventh Avenue Fair took place yesterday under cloudy skies, rain and, finally, sunshine. We were there for the cloudy, then rainy, part. An early afternoon downpour sent everyone reached for their umbrellas. A photo gallery below.

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Park Slope’s “other” Farmer’s Market is now up and running at JJ Byrne Park at Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street on Sundays from 11AM-5PM. It will go through November 23. Per an email about it: There is something for everyone! Our vendors sell everything from fresh cut flowers, plants, vegetables, fruit, wine, meats, seafood & […]

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It sounds like somebody has a very, uh, hot nanny in Park Slope. This story is making the rounds. It originally appeared on I Saw Your Nanny and now is the subject of a Brooklynian thread. Let’s just say there are many people who would have like to have seen this performance at Harmony Playground […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Park Slope South – Southern Exposure. Sunday, June 15 – 3-5 pm – with Matt Postal. Explore Park Slope’s numbered streets, heading south from the Litchfield Villa. Both older and more architecturally varied than the blocks to […]

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There are not one, but two, street fairs in Park Slope this weekend. The first, the Brooklyn Pride Festival, takes place on Prospect Park West between Ninth Street and Bartel Pritchard Square on Saturday. The second one, the Seventh Heaven fair on Seventh Avenue will take place on Sunday. The Seventh Avenue Fair is huge, […]

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This cat was found in the North Slope near Fourth Avenue the other night. The person that found him writes on Brooklynian that: My neighbors and I found a cat outside our building this evening. One of my neighbors says she thinks he has been there for a few days (her dog was interested in […]

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In the signs of summer department, the issue of children going wee-wee in the streets of Park Slope has returned. The tale comes from lnelson on Brooklynian and makes a perfect counterpoint to the Dog with Runs item. Here we go, so to speak: OMG, I was walking my dog yesterday on 5th between 14th […]

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We were reading a thread on Brooklynian about people’s feeling that there is more dog crap on the sidewalks of Park Slope than before, when we came across the long entry about a dog owner that wanted to clean up after their pet but, uh, couldn’t. Given that it touches on two of our favorite […]

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Among the many changes in parking regulations taking place in Park Slope–like the having alternate side cleaning on streets on two days and cleaning on avenue on two different days–regulations are also changing on Seventh Avenue. From a Park Slope Parents email: New parking regulations have arrived. New parking regulations on 7th Ave (posted on […]

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