There is almost no need to introduce this by saying that the question comes from Park Slope and that it reaches us via our beloved friends at Park Slope Parents. The question is: Is it okay to take the little one to a museum, say MOMA, even if said child acts like one and disturbs […]

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We can’t pass up Park Slope Food Coop Missed Connections, expecially ones involving olives and mozarella: Park Slope Co-op Food Processing shift (last night 6-8:30pm) – w4m – 29 (Park Slope) Okay. Fine. I thought you were kind of cute and possibly shy. I’m seeking the olive packaging boy that was laughing at my jokes […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Gary Mirabelle] Ah, a wet night in Brooklyn.

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One’s reaction depends on one’s sense of humor.

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The issue of parking tickets being given out on alternate side parking days in Brooklyn neighborhoods, where it’s traditional to double park during street cleaning hours arises from time to time. For instance, as in this case, in an email circulating with our friends at Park Slope Parents: So we (only some of us) were […]

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Naturally, the great Park Slope Fresh Direct debate continues on Park Slope Parents, where our dear and valued friends are pleased to raise issue of import to the community at large. We’re going to highlight several more opinions as to the Satanic or God-like nature of FD before we stop beating this dead horse. We […]

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We got this email from a reader a few days ago: “Rumor has it Catty Shack was closed down on New Years, and may remain closed.” Now, there’s an interesting discussion on Brooklynian about whether Park Slope’s fave lebsbian bar is doneski. One poster yesterday afternoon writes: ” I hear they got shut down for […]

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Groome] This photo from outside a church in Park Slope does raise an interesting question.

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At first we thought the danger at this intersection near Seventh Ave. and Flatbush Ave. was just because of shitty trash. And then we realized courtesy of McBrooklyn that, oh no, the danger is that the freaking lamp post might electrocute you. One would think they’d fix it instead of just putting up a danger […]

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Here’s what’s up at the former JJ Byrne Park in Park Slope which is now Washington Park. Above is the dog in the Boymelpark, which was looking pretty popular when we visited, but which is unlit, creating very dangerous conditions for people at night. We don’t know how many complaints Community Board 6 has gotten […]

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Times are tough for everyone right now, I’m sure we all know at least one person that has been laid-off or is looking for work. According to the Department of Labor we are experiencing the largest decline in private sector jobs in more than 7 years! Unemployment rates are only climbing higher in 2009 and […]

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Park Slope being Park Slope, the Fresh Direct tipping discussion has turned into a war about Fresh Direct itself. Thus far, the emails seem to be far more supportive of good old FD than bashing them. We go to the copy and paste, which is what we do when presented with thing like this. Here […]

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There have been dozens of post on Park Slope Parents over the last couple of days about how much to tip the dudes that deliver stuff for Fresh Direct. (It has sense degenerated into a classic PSP debate about whether FD is a Satanic scourge or a neighborhood God.) Most people talked about tipping a dollar […]

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Our dear friends at Park Slope Parents raise an interesting issue in a series of emails about whether the little ones can play in the hallways of the condo and what to do if a mean neighbor or (gasp) the all-powerful condo board isn’t into it. Here’s the illuminating email: I’ve lived in a Brooklyn […]

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This is the Dumpling Rickshaw Truck on Seventh Avenue and First Street on Saturday morning. In addition, the Waffles and Dinges truck was only a few blocks away in front of Old First Church. Given the generally horrific nature of Seventh Avenue food. These trucks are a Godsend.

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This is Fourth Avenue and Carroll Streets, which we think of as the corner of nightmares for different reasons, but mainly architectural ones. The building on the left is the shaft erected by Bricolage Designs and Henry Radusky. The now Christo-wrapped thing on the right is the building from which Robert Scarano was booted and […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Meg writes, “thin and crispy.”

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Our photographer writes: “I walk by the guy selling books on 7th and Flatbush all the time. This morning the guy was gone but the construction guys were there, they seemed to be watching his stuff. When I took a picture they laughed at me and asked me […]

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We’re not sure what you call this area. It’s Sixth Avenue right off Flatbush Avenue. Is it Park Slope, technically? ParkBush? Prospect Slope? Flat Slope? In any case, we usually pass by horrid messes on the street without giving them a second glance. But this one in front of the now shuttered Royal Video on […]

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Brook Vin, the new wine bar on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope near Tenth Street, is getting ready to open, as the window says “Soon.” It will be operated by the same people that own the wine shop across the street. There was some original concern by neighbors that outdoor seating would cause noise during […]

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Ouch. We hate when that happens. We planned to run this pic we shot the other day anyway, but then we found an AP story on Crain’s about how parking in Park Slope bites the big one, people smashing up your nothwithstanding. The gist of the story is the when alternate side parking was suspended […]

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We haven’t been paying much mind to the gems that come across the transom from our dear and thoughtful friends at Park Slope Parents, but a reader brought a discussion about how to avoid “cussing” in front of the little ones to our attention. How the fuck, exactly, does one avoid dropping the F Bomb […]

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That sound you hear is the people who used to spend their days at the old Tea Lounge on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope gazing at what is being done to the old hangout of stroller moms, their spawn and those that managed to fit in between them. We managed to stick our camera through […]

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We found this tacked to a tree on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope yesterday. At first, we thought it was a real Missing Person flier, because, God knows, we’ve sadly seen our share of those around the Slope and the rest of Brooklyn this year. Then, we we looked more closely at the photo, the […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] Here’s a shot of good old Prospect Park West after a bit of a snow in January 1978, about 31 years ago, give or take.

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