[Photo courtesy of Susan Fox] All we could say when we saw this photo sent to us by Susan Fox, founder of Park Slope Parents, was wow. This is a rainbow that appeared yesterday morning around 7AM.

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Looks like Love=? at 162 Fifth Avenue is going to the great shopping fest in the sky, at least if the close out sale signs in the window are any indication. Unclear if it’s poor business, increased rent or recession-related.

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Remember the old Fillmore Real Estate office at 486 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope? You know, the one between 11th and 12th Streets that closed down along with a couple of others as the real estate market started to, uh, sink. Well, the place is coming back to a life, per a tip from a […]

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Most of us know of the Grand Prospect Hall through the ubiquitous television commercials starring its current owners, Michael and Alice Halkias (“The Grand Prospect Hall – we make your dreams come true!”). Prospect Hall, as it was known until its newest incarnation, has a very special place in the history of Brooklyn and in […]

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Compared to the glacial pace of some private developments, the Fifth Avenue Committee’s supportive housing development on Fifth Ave. and 16th Street (which had moments of controversy as it was being planned), is moving like a rocket. (Our friends at Brownstoner checked it out in October when work was just getting underway.) In any case, […]

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Meet 385 Fourth Avenue, which is not the most solid member of our Dead Pool for project that may be dead in the water, but is start to gain that stench of death. This is supposed to be an 11-story building with 51 units from the shop of Richard Bienenfeld Arcitects in New Rochelle. Now, […]

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Last night around 9PM in a little community garden on Fifth Avenue.

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Park Slope’s NoNo Kitchen is for rent. A couple of weeks ago we’d noticed some strange signs in the window about how the menu was being changed, which struck us as signs that the Cajun spot (which we never cared for much) was having some trouble. The “for rent” sign now in the window indicates […]

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One’s perspective on this depends on one’s status and feeling about current loves or past ones. Valentine’s Day has become another one of those gargantuan opportunities to sell! Sell! Sell! And if you don’t pony up in the right way. You, my friend, are an unromantic (expletive deleted). Of course, if you are unattached or […]

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Slope Natural Plus which we first reported on in mid-January is now open at the corner of Fourth Ave & St. Mark’s on the Slope side of the great Fourth Avenue Slope-Gowanus great divide. Another business open on Brooklyn’s Park Avenue.

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And, now, we present our weekly restaurant review from our friends at Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog. (We apologize to readers and to Eat It as we forgot to slot this in its usual Friday slot.) This week’s feature is Convivium in Park Slope: I recently had one of the best meals I’ve had […]

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Brook-Vin, the much anticipated new Park Slope wine bar at 387 Seventh Avenue (between 11th & 12th Streets) opened to a packed house last night and a crowd that got thicker as the night wore on. There was a lot of wine flowing and containers of liquids like bacon-infused bourbon and fruit-soaked vodkas sitting on […]

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The way things are going it will probably be easier to tell you which Park Slope restaurants aren’t for sale. (Lighten up. This is a joke.) We have, however, come across another one that is. This is a Japanese restaurant on Fifth Avenue at Sixth Street that seems to meet the description of Sakura Cafe, […]

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To get back from today’s lofty history, to the ridiculous, we have the continuation of the discussion about the little ones riding their bikes on the street or sidewalks of Park Slope. Here’s one Park Slope Parents email: I have two children aged 7 & 10 and I always ride on the sidewalk with them […]

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On Second Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Groome] This photo shot in the Slope last night almost looks like it’s from another era. Beautiful.

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Mention the word “bicycle” and some people on both side of the aisle start foaming at the mouth. So we were more than amused to come across an email from our friends at Park Slope Parents about a parent who seemed quite upset about getting a ticket for riding on the sidewalk (which is illegal). […]

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The Seventh Avenue restaurant Hunan Wok, which closed down about a month ago, is morphing into a bodega/convenience store. Per a poster on Brooklynian: “There’s now an awning up for your standard corner store, presumably selling old vegetables, milk, beer, ice cream and chips.” Another poster writes: “The new sign says OPEN 24 HOURS!! i’m […]

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The maker of this vid describes it as a “high strung” walk through the snow in Park Slope and Greenwood Heights.” Watch it and you’ll see what he means.

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While looking into Citadel Property Management‘s listing for Kitchen Bar, we also came across what looks like a “Reduced for Quick Sale!!” ad <strike>for the Mediterranean restaurant Olive Vine Cafe on 7th Avenue in the North Slope.</strike> Little D Eatery on  Seventh Avenue in the South Slope. According to their listing: REDUCED for QUICK SALE!! […]

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Ever wonder what it’s like inside that mysterious place known as the Park Slope Food Coop, a place that some love and other loathe? Wonder no longer. Simply watch this vid, bearing in mind that the narrator is a BIG fan.

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At first we thought we were seeing things, that maybe this had been there a long time and we just hadn’t realized. Then we seemed to remember that the bodega that had occupied this corner seemed to have had a going out of business sale in October or November. So, here, friends, is the latest […]

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Something is up at 314 Seventh Avenue, which is the now vacant site of a former laundromat. Applications have been filed with the Department of Buildings to convert the space into an eating and drinking establishment. So far DOB has disapproved them, but early disapprovals are common and not meaningful. Also of interest is that […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of E.C. Stephens] Correspondent E.C. Stephens hightailed it over to Babouche the Moroccan restaurant on Fifth Avenue at Lincoln Place in the Slope upon getting word that the gate had been slammed shut. Indeed it had. As can be seen in the picture below, the reason for the closure is quite […]

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As you can see from the photos above another Seventh Avenue institution in Park Slope, Super Saver on Seventh, which is near Union Street is closing. The sign says that Berman Realty is handling the leasing of the space, but it’s not listed on its website yet. What we found, however, was another interesting little […]

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