Correspondent E.C. Stephens reports: The Chocolate Room on 85 5th ave., Park Slope, will host it’s 4th Annual Black Chocolate Stout release party on Wednesday, Oct. 29th at 7pm. A night of beers, giveaways and dessert it will be headlined by brewmaster Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn Brewery. Hey, it’s hump day. Why not?

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Perhaps a Sexy Jack-O-Lantern Contest would be of interest? If so, your time has arrived. It’s happening from today (October 29) through October 31 at Babeland Brooklyn, which is located at 462 Bergen Street and is also the crown vibratorjewel of what is coming to be know as Pintchik Row. Per the babes at Babeland: […]

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Everybody in Brooklyn probably has a love-hate relationship with car services. We use them to get from Point A to Point B, but we’ve probably all been menaced by their drivers as pedestrians. Us, we try to get out of the way. In any case, an email making the rounds via our friends at Park […]

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The pharmacy that is replacing the (loved by some, reviled by others) Second Street Cafe on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, is almost ready. We caught this shot with the new signs lit up last night. Seems like we’re looking at an opening in a week or two.

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A bunch of Park Slope businesses are holding phone banks for the Obama-Biden campaign. A GL Correspondent hit us up with a photo of the sign for the cell phone bank Al Di La is hosting on Carroll Street. The Lyceum and Proteus Gowanus are also welcoming people to bring in their cells and ring […]

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While the fact that there are John McCain voters in Park Slope was so amusing to the Times that it made the paper, there may be more than we think. This, in fact, could be behind Park Slope Parents censorship of political discussion, because the Brookynian board is where some of the pro-McCain sentiment is […]

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Today, we introduce a new feature and a new contributor, Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog. Eat It will be producing a weekly post that is a summary of a review/reviews appearing on Eat It. Today’s introductory effort is about Ghenet, the Ethiopian restaurant on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope: I recently went with a […]

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Eponymy, a women’s boutique, opened on Bergen Street a few weeks ago. Aside from frocks, the store also sells local art (see pic on jump). The person who runs the shop, in fact, told a GL Correspondent that everything in the space is for sale, “including the fixtures, though I doubt anyone would want to […]

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There’s been a great deal of worrying in Park Slope over the sudden closing of Mailboxes of Park Slope on Flatbush. Without warning, the postal service closed it’s gates. Then a sign appeared from the United States Post Office, a “Notice of Abandonment“: Mailboxes Etc.: Located on 328 Flatbush Avenue has abandoned their private mail […]

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Our dear friends at Park Slope Parents provide us with more material to add to this weeks Brooklyn Scam Fest. This one, though, is a more old-fashioned one than the energy scam running wild. Per an email on the PSP list that came our way: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably […]

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From our friends at Park Slope Parents comes word via an email that the energy scammers we’ve devoted more posts to than we ever thought we would are working the Slope too. Per an email: A man just knocked on my door and when I asked who it was he said IDT/Con-Ed. When I told […]

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The trail of paint that the little girl in this new YouTube vid follows mysteriously appeared one night on Sixth Street in Park Slope about three years ago and it’s still there. It expires at the corner of Prospect Park West and Sixth Street. Watch her follow it. Watch mom’s stroller with baby roll downhill […]

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Aunt Suzie owner Irene LoRe is a neighbor of the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE) and the Executive Director of the newly formed 5th Avenue BID (Business Improvement District). She took time out of her busy schedule to talk to CUE about the Avenue’s past— and future. CUE: Where are you from originally? LoRe […]

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The Fourth Annual Harvest Festival took place at J.J. Byrne Park in Park Slope this weekend with the wonderful Old Stone House, the excellent Park Slope Civic Council and our dear, dear friends at Park Slope Parents taking part. There were ponies and other creatures and, you know, wherever you find a pony you also […]

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We often pick up emails from the Park Slope Parents list (sometimes to the extreme chagrin of the people that run the group). We have noticed this particular post twice that discusses a policy of not posting any politically-related emails. (The first time it came up was during our brief hiatus in September.) Clearly the […]

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Disappointed that they’re won’t be anymore VP debates this election season? Looking for something to do Saturday night (after you get back from Red Hook)? Gussy yourself up and head over to Medusa Hair Salon (7th Ave and 1st Street in Park Slope) for the Updos for Obama benefit. For a donation of $75 to […]

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[Photo courtesy of June Carter Cash Peep/GL Flickr Pool] This photo comes from Seventh Avenue in Park Slope courtesy of valued GL Flickr Pool contributor June Carter Cash Peep. She writes: “Nowhere does it say no strollers.” Yes, Ms. Carter Cash Peep, you are correct.

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From the Park Slope Parents email list comes word of an “outage” in Time Warner cable and internet service somewhere around Grand Army Plaza that’s gone on for weeks. Here it is: Is anyone else near Grand Army Plaza having issues with Time Warner Cable Service? Our phone, internet and cable have been out most […]

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Okay, it’s a Sukkot tent, and we were having some fun with the headline, but the way things have been going, one does wonder if tent living is going to be the wave of the future. In any case, correspondent Max Casey, who’s got a nose for this kind of thing, writes: Someone set up […]

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Let’s just say this has not been the best week or so for the Berkley Carroll School in Park Slope. Let’s, in fact, say that unless its administration, staff and the privileged families sending their children there are impervious to public relations nightmares, scorn and charges of hypocrisy and mistreatment of employees, that it’s been […]

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It turns out presidential nominee Barack Obama’s National Political Director is Park Slope’s own Patrick Gaspard. In fact, he’s a “PS 321 and MS 51 dad and a familiar face on Seventh Avenue.” Mr. Gaspard says that “This election offers a clear choice between John McCain’s agenda for continuing the failed policies of George W. […]

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The Brooklyn Paper confirms what a neighborhood source told us earlier this week: The old Tea Lounge Space on Seventh Avenue in the Slope is becoming a Vietnamese sandwich shop. Sarah Portlock reports that “the beloved Vietnamese sandwich shop Hanco’s” is opening in the space. The popular Carroll Gardens spot will open within the next […]

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If you’re bike disappeared on Fifth Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets, we believe we came upon a strong indication of where it might be. Call the 78th Precinct, or so the sign says.

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This is Dusty, who disappeared on Bergen Street in the Slope on October 9. We found the flier on a tree and, as is our habit, figured we’d try to help.

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From Park Slope comes this blood curdling report of monster moths: “[The moths are] goldeny and when you smoosh them they’re chalky…i found a mitten i’d left in a bag in my closet. (i’d been wondering why they kept flying out from the closet!) said mitten was missing a giant chunk. i’m not talking about […]

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