Today, we’re ushering out Signs of Spring, due to reasons Spring springing so much that there are no long signs of it, and ushering in Brookspring, the rubric we’ll be using for Brooklyn spring photos going forward. (Click here to bring up some of the posts labeled “Signs of Spring.”) In any case, Signs of […]

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We saw our friend on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope waiting outside Luscious Foods. He was a lot less laid back than some, but way more relaxed than others.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] These two photos of ongoing development on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue come to us from Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch. The photo above is the tall, thin building at Fourth and Carroll that we called the Monolith because during the early part of its […]

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Cafe 11, a relatively new cafe on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between 11th and 12th Street has bitten the dust. The establishment closed its doors sometime this week. It was located in a fairly (for Seventh Avenue) cafe-heavy area, given the presence of the Tea Lounge and Naidres nearby, never seemed to do very […]

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If you depend on the F train to get places and you normally catch the train between Jay Street-Borough Hall and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, be prepared to take shuttle buses this weekend or walk. The same set of disruptions that occurred a few weeks ago are happening again and the instructions are so […]

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We noted this a couple of weeks ago, but it’s worth a reminder: Tomorrow (4/5) is “Opening Day” at Prospect Park. The day includes the annual Little League Parade through Park Slope, which starts at 10AM. (Right now, the weather forecast is very iffy for tomorrow morning.) It starts at Seventh Ave. & Carroll St. […]

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The South Slope has gotten a new children’s store. In mid-March we reported that a children’s store was taking over the space of the quickly-shuttered Fashion Cafe. Well, the new store a branch of Boing Boing called “Boing!” has opened. It is on Seventh Avenue near 16th Street and includes nursing accouterments and space for […]

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It looks like Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue made The Onion in a piece headlined “Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization.” Here’s a sample: According to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, the recent influx of exceedingly affluent powder-wigged aristocrats into the nation’s gentrified urban areas is pushing out young […]

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“i just found a puppy – looks like a pitbull mix, black with brown stripes, approximately 2 months old. I found him near the church on the corner of 6th Ave and St. Johns. I rang a few doorbells nearby to see if the puppy had runaway but no one seemed to know anything. I […]

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It hasn’t been that long since the entire “Is There a Park Slope in (Fill in the Blank)” thread of emails on Park Slope Parents and we thought it may have run its course with the final Park Slope in Iraq exchange, but here we go again. Today’s question, which comes from an email brought […]

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Here’s an interesting rent-controlled Park Slope conundrum making the rounds via the Park Slope Parents Group. We post it because it raising interesting questions about what to do when the landlord starts doing ominous things in the building that indicate change may be afoot: I live in a rent stabilized building. Recently the landlord has […]

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Posted in a Park Slope Parents email: “Person Needed to Cut Ring from Finger….hi, my husband cut his finger on Sunday and now his finger is very swollen and infected. We went to the doctor and he is taking antibiotics, the problem is that his wedding band is extremely tight around his finger…Anybody knows where […]

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Yesterday, a teenager was charged with a hate crime for allegedly taking a yarmulke from someone’s head at the Fourth Avenue Station in Park Slope back on March 18 The Daily News had some details, but the story that captured our attention was the one on Wicked Local Wellesley. The victim is a rabbinical assistant […]

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“Yesterday I finally brought our deceased Volvo’s license plates to the DMV Express on 34th Street. We knew that we couldn’t discontinue our insurance unless we surrendered them. Who can forget the hall of hell that the Department of Motor Vehicles used to be. Sometimes I think I am hallucinating when I go to the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] This is second floor of a storefront on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope yesterday at 6PM in the evening sunlight. The image comes from GL Correspondent Anna Lewis.

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We’ve picked to items for our weekly Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. They are oddly related in a first or second cousins kind of way. One involves an odd arrest at the Jay Street station and the other has as its focus a kumquat thief at Union Market in Park Slope: You got arrested Jay St […]

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] This is another photo sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle, who is a regular photo contributor to GL, from Prospect Park West in Park Slope.

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Sometimes you pass by things and don’t really notice them. So it is with this Christmas tree on the roof of the building at Seventh Avenue and Lincoln Place in Park Slope. It graced the neighborhood with its rooftop display during the holidays and, well, it’s still there, looking crispy and formerly festive. Sadly, it […]

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Well, here is Dashing Diva, the nail salon that is taking over the (cursed) space on Seventh Avenue that most recently housed the ill-fated Maggie Moo’s and before that a forgettable Italian restaurant and before that…Dashing Diva has been doing up nails from a screaming pink location on Smith Street for a couple of years. […]

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There was some interesting activity yesterday afternoon at Smiling Pizza in Park Slope, which is located at Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street: “At 3:15 or so today (3/20) there were at least a half dozen police cars and paddy wagons encircling the corner of Smiling Pizza. There were quite a few teens that seemed to […]

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This pink and orange fabric covering with the Barrio name and phone number has been up at Seventh Avenue and Second Street for a couple of days, but we finally go a chance to get a digital of it yesterday. Also, the owners have cleaned up the tagging on the metal grate outside that had […]

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This is the redone Oshima on Seventh Avenue, which has gotten a serious makeover and come out the other end with a sort of generic, cool gray stone Japanese eatery look.

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Anyone that needs a fix of the Easter Bunny or Easter baskets this weekend can head to Piramide Restaurant on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. This is because the Easter Bunny will there on both Saturday (3/22) and Sunday (3/23) from 9AM-11AM. Mr. Bunny will greet the children (and presumably the adults) and “distribute free […]

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We haven’t heard much about 153 Lincoln Place in Park Slope in quite a while. The gorgeous building was what some people called a “brothel” for a long time and others simply called a hotel with hourly rates. In any case, the place was sold in 2002, construction started a couple of years later, then […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] If you catch the first Seventh Avenue photo below, this shot of a little girl in spring colors with matching balloons is a very different sort of rainy day Park Slope photo.

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