Julie & Julia has been shooting in Park Slope this week. The film involves a woman who tries cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One in a year. The film is using Cafe Moutarde as a stand in for a cafe in Paris in the 1950s. […]

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A proposed Park Slope charter school, which was turned down the first time around, has gotten the okay to open in the 2009-2010 school year. It would be a middle school and serve neighborhoods including Park Slope, Gowanus, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, Red Hook, Cobble Hill and parts of Downtown Brooklyn.–Sun

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As the Crown Heights playground weed smoking debate continues on Brooklynian and in the comments over at Brownstoner, the Pacific Branch Public Library Porn Discussion is still going on at the Park Slope Parents Group. Is it okay for people to look at porn in the library? Does the First Amendment end when lewd acts […]

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Everybody knows that movie theaters can be challenging places to see a film, particularly if it’s a movie that draw running commentary from the audience or involves a lot of children. We present this self-identified “rant” on Brooklynian about the Pavilion on the Park Slope/Windsor Terrace border, which comes from a showing of Iron Man: […]

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We had been wondering when the city would be changing the alternate side parking regulations in Community Board 6 to reduce the restricted parking intervals from 3 hours to 90 minutes. Now we know. They will start putting up new signs next week, and as a result, alternate side of the street parking in the […]

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We’re not clear whether the balance of cleaners on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is at an equilibrium point or not, but new one will be opening near Fourth Street. The interesting part is that it comes from Sunset Park, where local blogger Best View in Brooklyn shares the news that she’s losing her cleaner: […]

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Late Saturday, someone posted that their dog, which had been left outside Union Market on Union Street in Park Slope, had vanished. Yesterday, the posted that the dog had been returned: “A nice guy named John on Union Street took her in for the night and we got her back this morning. Thank you everyone. […]

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[Photo courtesy of Heather-D/flickr] Here’s a cool springtime panorama of Third Street in Park Slope from the Gowanus Lounge Pool on flickr. Click here to go to the full size flickr shot as it’s really cool.

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“We Left our Black Lab mix at Union Market today, and when we returned, she was gone. Thinking that a good Park Slope resident took her in as she is quite friendly. If anyone has any information, please call my cell phone 347-203-3442. She had a red collar and leash, but no tags. Please, we […]

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This ad was shot in Park Slope at Sixth Avenue and Sterling Place in June, 2003. Worth 30 seconds on a Sunday.

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[Photo courtesy of billyhc/flickr] One of the more fireworks-filled Community Board 6 meetings in recent memory took place on Thursday night while the Brooklyn Blogfest event was going on. The topic was Park Slope’s Union Hall and its liquor license. The scheduling meant that fewer bloggers were probably on hand to take in the show […]

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Well, the matter of that pimped Park Slope bus stop with all the seating has been solved. It’s part of the Sit Projects, which is designed to make a point about the lack of seating on public transportation and at stops. We know this because we were led to their MySpace page: SIT Projects was […]

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We’d almost say that this is a publicity stunt for Ikea, which has been known to furnish bus shelters and, even, subway cars to promote new stores. However, the Ikea set ups tend to be far more elaborate and the chair on the left in this photo looks a little too beaten down to be […]

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There’s nothing especially new about this, in the sense that Ghenet on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope has been open for about a week-and-a-half, but we stopped in an enjoyed dinner there and felt like showing the interior. Ghenet is a sibling to the original on Mulberry Street near Houston in Manhattan. The new Ghenet […]

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Since the Center for the Urban Environment relocated to our new headquarters at 168 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues this spring, we’ve had a chance to take a closer look at the urban geography of Park Slope’s Western edge. American Legion Post 1636 at 193-95 9th Street across the street from the bus […]

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We don’t know how long the famous Pintchik Oracle, one of the more unusual Brooklyn landmarks has been proclaiming its return, but we noticed it for the first time Sunday. (Then, we held the post for a couple of days because we were swamped and woke up to a full story about it in today’s […]

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[Photos courtesy of Gary Mirabelle] This is the steel framework of condos that are rising on Eighth Avenue at Tenth Street in Park Slope. The property was a small churchyard that was sold for development and will end up as ten condos. Last year, Icky in Brooklyn wrote: “Opposed to a glass-and-steel box, the church […]

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Apparently, people are still smoking in Park Slope’s JJ Byrne Park, setting up the classic smoker vs. non-smoker confrontation (and smoker vs. parent face off) and questions about why the Parks Department still hasn’t posted clear “no smoking” signs. Here’s an email forwarded to us from the Park Slope Parents list, where the issue originally […]

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Tulips season is still going strong. We found these tulips near Grand Army Plaza, part of a large annual bloom in front of a home that always offers a sea of tulips.

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Our recent posts with emails critical of the Park Slope Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library caught the attention of its Executive Director, Dionne Mack Harvin, who submitted a long comment yesterday. As we sometimes do when a comment merits special attention, we’re presenting it, in full, as a post: I frequently read through the […]

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Rare Device, the 3-year-old gallery, store and benevolent soft goods curator in Park Slope will close up shop for good on May 18th or thereabouts…Everything in the Brooklyn store will be on sale beginning Saturday, May 3.” 25% off from May 3-8, 45% off from May 9-14 and 65% off from May 15-18. 453 7th […]

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Yes, it’s movie shooting season again. The Rebound has been shooting in Park Slope, shutting down St Johns Place between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The film is directed by Bart Freundlich and stars Catherine Zeta-Jones.–Brit in Brooklyn

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There is further discussion of the Park Slope Branch Library suckage and strollergate issue from the person who posted the most recent allegations on the Park Slope Parents list. (Plus the follow-up strollergate thing.) It turns out that the Library acknowledges there may be some, uh, customer service issues: …Today I called the community contact […]

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A couple of emails from the often interesting Park Slope Parents group concerning (possibly related) muggings on the F Train were forwarded to us. Here is the first one: My nanny was mugged tonight around 6:30/6:45 on the F train just before the train left the 7th avenue station by a group of 6 teenage […]

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While Park Slope’s Union Hall is very popular with customers, it is not so loved by neighbors, many of whom call it a “public nuisance.” Now the bar is facing a hearing before Community Board 6, which recently handled another liquor license hot potato with the Jim Mamary oyster bar on Hoyt Street in Carroll […]

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