Here’s an interesting post on Brooklynian by someone named parkslopeboy that, at first, we thought was about vandalism of cars on Park Place in Park Slope, but it turns out to have some added information about what happened when two suspects were found by the police: We were at our neighbor’s house on Park Place […]

[Read more →]

We posted last month about the coming of Five Guys Burgers and Fries to part of the space that was once occupied by D’Agostino’s on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. Five Guys has recently marked its turf right alongside the impending Bank of America next door. Coming in July.

[Read more →]

Some things manage to press a button that goes directly to one’s reserves of anger. So it is with this tale on writer Felicia Sullivan’s blog, which is ostensibly about why someone is fed up with Park Slope (yes, taking off on the theme of that New York Times article again), but is really about […]

[Read more →]

One of the people interviewed for the Hating Park Slope article in the Sunday Times didn’t care much for the outcome. “That’s the last time I give an interview. I spoke to writer Lynn Harris months ago for an article she was doing on Park Slope. ‘Where Is the Love’ appeared in yesterday’s NY Time’s […]

[Read more →]

It’s short notice, but jazz artist Ravi Coltrane is performing a show at PS 107 in the South Slope tonight (5/20) at 7:30 PM. The show will benefit the school’s PTA. PS 107 is located at 13th Street and Eighth Avenue. The show is on the Fourth Floor of the school. Tickets are $20 and […]

[Read more →]

There’s a mystery film shooting on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between Third and Fourth Streets this week. We say “mystery” because the sign for the shoot on the 21st says “untitled” production. We can say that a rumor that the film is about a Park Slope-based incident that is set off when a child […]

[Read more →]

The annual Fifth Avenue Fair in Park Slope took place yesterday and was dampened by rain for the second time in the last three years. The rain started coming down around 1:30 and by the time it let up around 4:30 a lot of the vendors had already packed up. The street was filled before […]

[Read more →]

There’s a worthwhile stoop sale going on in Park Slope today to benefit Thomas Golden Randolph, a very sick child about whom we posted yesterday. If you’re on Third Street today, perhaps on the way to the Fifth Avenue Fair, stop by and buy something or make a donation. The sale is at 422 Third […]

[Read more →]

Sundays mean one thing around GL HQ: Our Sunday Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. This week, we turn to one that’s a bit different than the usual weekly choices. It’s not a Missed Connection on the L Train or anything like that. Rather, it’s an online Missed Connection. Read on: Missing my sex addict pal that […]

[Read more →]

The writer who started a “why do people hate Park Slope” discussion when she said she was writing something for New York Magazine has, instead, published her story on Park Slope Hating in the Sunday Times. It covers what will be very well worn territory to those who follow such discussions or participate in them, […]

[Read more →]

Today is the second day of the Park Slope Open Studio Tour, which one might want to check out on the way to or from the Fifth Avenue Fair. There’s a webpage for the tour here, but the link to the map just leads to a PDF of the image we’ve posted above. The map […]

[Read more →]

There is no way to look at this baby’s face and not be moved. We’ve gotten a number of emails from the organizers of this event about a “Giant Stoop Sale for Babies” tomorrow at 422 Third Street in Park Slope and a Blood and Platelet Drive for a beautiful child named Thomas Golden Randolph. […]

[Read more →]

Oh, yes, it’s street fair season. To us, the annual Fifth Avenue Fair in Park Slope is the real kick off the big fair season and, if the truth be told, it’s one of the handful that retain some neighborhood flavor. (Plus, there is a sunglass vendor that is always there that allows us to […]

[Read more →]

If you go to your local park today, the odds are you will find something special going on. That’s because it’s “It’s My Park Day!” citywide. We can’t possibly highlight them all, but were’ going to pull a few from the inbox. (Check out Prospect Park’s activities, which we posted about earlier in the week, […]

[Read more →]

The debacle of Brooklyn’s “Arabic school” has taken a new turn. “Three opponents of a Brooklyn public school that teaches Arabic filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the school’s founding principal, Debbie Almontaser, claiming that she had defamed them by saying they had stalked her.”–NYT

[Read more →]

[Photo courtesy Bryan Bruchman/flickr] Yesterday, Jon Crow, the Union Hall neighbors who led the charge against the venue, circulated an email about the Community Board 6 decision to support renewal of its liquor license. The fight was one of the most bitter in recent memory in Park Slope and cast supporters and opponents on very […]

[Read more →]

There is irony and, then, there is irony. That there is a constituency to keep alternate side of the street parking regulations in place in Park Slope rather than temporarily suspending them is irony. Now that the rush has worn off a suspension of anywhere from three weeks to three months, there appears to be […]

[Read more →]

That Jackson Heights ad campaign, which has featured some bus shelter posters on Seventh Avenue among other things, is back with a new Park Slope pitch and a new slogan. The always engaging Copyranter scanned an ad out of today’s New York Times supplement, which presumably will be popping up everywhere soon. Gawker’s take on […]

[Read more →]

We were done with the Great Library Internet Porn Battle among the members of the Park Slope Parents Group (which ironically started with a branch library in Boerum Hill). Then, someone sent us this email last night, which touches on some interesting angles of the debate. The writer of the email calls the discussion “a […]

[Read more →]

Union Hall won its fight for its liquor license last night when Community Board 6 resoundingly voted to support its application to the State Liquor Authority. Last week a committee had voted against the license. The meeting at Borough Hall was angry and emotional at times. Union Hall says it will have monthly meetings with […]

[Read more →]

A new charter school was approved for Park Slope on Monday. The Brooklyn Prospect Charter School will open in 2009 with a sixth grade and will add classes until it reaches 12th grade by 2015. The school will accept students (via lottery) that live in Park Slope, Gowanus, Sunset Park, Red Hook, Windsor Terrace, Cobble […]

[Read more →]

“This week, the city quietly announced a change in parking rules that, for thousands of people in Park Slope, will be nothing less than life-altering, a summer not to be forgotten, like the Summer of Love, the Summer of Sam. The alternate-side parking rules of half a century will be indefinitely suspended while workers replace […]

[Read more →]

The Brooklyn Public Library weighs in on the internet porn issue with a post on its own blog today. Here’s what they have to say as a follow up to a number of posts quoting what some residents have been saying about the issue: …since we’ve been a topic of discussion over the past few […]

[Read more →]

Every now and then an online back-and-forth comes up that is compelling. So it is with the Library Porn Debate, which started with the subject of children seeing some adult images that adults were viewing online at the Pacific Branch Library in Boerum Hill. The public library does not filter adult content on First Amendment […]

[Read more →]

We were expecting major fireworks at tonight’s Community Board 6 meeting regarding the liquor license of that Park Slope nightspot called Union Hall, but it could turn out to be even more contentious than last week’s committee meeting on the topic. Supporters of the venue are trying to rally the troops sending out JPEGs of […]

[Read more →]