Community Board 6, which has taken some heat in the days following the vote to grant a liquor license to that controversial oyster bar on Hoyt Street in Carroll Gardens is hosting two informational meetings “in an effort to better understand the rules and regulations governing restaurants and bars in our district.” The sessions will […]

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It seems like Cafe Eleven on Seventh Avenue (between 11th and 12th Streets) in Park Slope only closed a few weeks ago (and, in fact, it did), but the space already has a new tenant: it will be a wine bar operated by the owners of Big Nose, Full Body, across the street. A reader […]

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What is up at the Terrapin Playground, the section of J.J. Byrne Park behind the Novo Park Slope that developer Shaya Boymelgreen is renovating? The developer promised to spend millions of dollars renovating the playground in exchange for the Parks Dept. letting him use the large playground as a staging area while workers constructed his […]

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While Baluchi’s may not offer the finest Indian food in New York City, its presence in Park Slope would be welcome, and we were unhappy when the Smith Street branch closed in 2006. We reported that the chainlet would be opening on Fifth Avenue so long ago that we’d given up hope and filed it […]

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So, which is better: the rendering of the Gowanus Condo on First Street in Park Slope or the very different reality of the now (mostly uncovered) building?–Curbed

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Here’s a scene of bloom from Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. You can check out the entire GL Brookspring Collection so far by clicking here. The earlier Signs of Spring series can be found here.

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As of this weekend, there are hints of green showing in trees everywhere, meaning that by the end of this week, a lot of trees will be showing new leaves. These are in J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Our full Brookspring Collection so far can be seen here along with our […]

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Here’s an interesting question from one of our readers about some interesting activity on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope: Hello- 5th Ave has been completely lined with dumptrucks for the last few days…there must be 15-20 of them at least from maybe sackett to 2nd. I see that they’re doing work on 5th Ave itself […]

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A close up of the beauty currently on display on First Street, between Fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue, in Park Slope.

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From Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, near Fifth Avenue, where many things are blooming in a magnificent way.

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We can say one thing unequivocally about Barrio, the new Mexican restaurant that will be opening soon on Seventh Avenue at Third Street in Park Slope: it will be colorful. Here’s a look inside the unfinished restaurant from yesterday afternoon which shows that all the major work has been done. We got our photos the […]

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The shuttered Spirito on Ninth Street in Park Slope is coming back as a Peruvian restaurant called Aji Lounge. The owner writes, “It’s going to be peruvian food presented in small dishes (tapas) and most of the dishes are going to be under $10.00… of course we are going to have entrees but as special… […]

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The condo with the working name of The Gowanus, which is on First Street in Park Slope, has shown its face this week. It is the building we have sometimes called the Big Mac Building, because it adjoins a McDonald’s on the corner. The building in the photo below, meanwhile, is a neighbor that doesn’t […]

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At first, we thought the paving stones on Prospect Park West had suddenly gone green due to the weather and that everything had started looking a little like the English countryside spring, a bit mossy and green. Then we saw the signs posted for the herbicides that have been sprayed. Nothing overly nasty, of course, […]

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We wandered past Organic Heights on Bergen Street at the edge of Park Slope expecting to find it open (it was set to open in October or November) and were surprised to find that it’s still closed. In any case, the sign says it is coming very, very soon.

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There is nothing like a faded, old Fallout Shelter sign to bring back memories of the optimistic days in the 1950s when the government encouraged people to think they could survive thermo nuclear war by hiding in a basement on Bergen Street near Fifth Avenue, eating food without expiration dates and drinking from barrels of […]

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This one-way specimen comes to us from Fifth Avenue and Baltic Streets in Park Slope. It can be found hiding under scaffolding surrounding a building that has been in ruins since a Chinese restaurant went up in flames a couple of years ago.

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Park Slope’s ‘SNice, at Fifth Avenue and Third Street, has established itself as a very popular place in the short time since it opened. We stopped in over the weekend for some excellent vegetarian food, including the excellent vegetarian meatball sub and a taste of the tofu wrap, plus some good vegan chocolate chip cookies. […]

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A GL reader writes to say that the owner of Barrio, the much blogged about new Mexican restaurant on Seventh Avenue at Third Street in Park Slope (if the food lives up to volume of the blog coverage, it’ll be a winner), will be opening in about ten days, which would put D-Day around April […]

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1) Aperitivo, which is the new Fifth Avenue outpost of the Seventh Avenue Italian restaurant Sotto Voce, is now sporting a name on its glass. The bistro is supposed to open at the corner of First Street sometime this month, as noted by Brownstoner last month. Sotto Voce is also opening a new “family-style” restaurant […]

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What is that stuff? We came across it in front of Brooklyn Fish Camp over the weekend, giving off an indescribable scent mixed with some sort of cleaner. People saw it, stopped, sniffed and walked into the street to avoid walking through it. Some brave souls walked through the watered down megabarf-looking substance. It looked […]

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We came across the response to a call in the building next to Willie’s Dawgs on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope this weekend. Fortunately, the FDNY quickly determined that there was no fire in the building.

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We were out and about yesterday on a glorious Spring day in Park Slope and at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, while our Correspondent Anna Lewis was at the Opening Day festivities in Propsect Park. We can report that Fifth Avenue is starting to bloom (above) and that the magnolias at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and […]

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Ah, another weekend of insane service changes on the F line, from Park Slope to Jay Street-Borough Hall, and the Running of the Shuttle Buses. We caught the monthly Running of the Buses at Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, where people were staring slack jawed at the mindboggling set of directions from […]

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The move to rename J.J. Byrne Park as Washington Park is continuing to make progress. Mr. Byrne was a Brooklyn borough president elected in 1926 who died in office four years later. The park would be given the name it had in the 1880s “when it was home to the baseball team that would become […]

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