Here comes Christmas stuff, friends. The Buy in Brooklyn Campaign is unveiling its new “Park Slope Snowflake” campaign today that will involve two nights with local merchants staying open late, having sales and special events, all in an effort to get us to shop locally. Here are some details from the website, which has gone […]

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Here, we have the ultimate Park Slope War: loud music versus the hellish noise produced by children above one’s head. On which side of the battle line one falls depends on whether one is the one playing the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or listening to Toby upstairs dive off the couch to the floor. […]

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Here is a tale that involves a “not so neighborly neighbor” that comes via the emails that circulate among our good friends at Park Slope Parents. The issue is at hand is a neighbor who won’t let someone get meep-meeped: Our neighbor in the rear of our property will not allow access to her back […]

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We always find articles in foreign publications about Brooklyn particularly amusing. So it is with this article in the Irish Times: I AM IN Brooklyn two days before I notice it. The sky. It’s 7pm in Park Slope and I’m sure it was bright 10 minutes ago when I went into the supermarket, but now […]

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Remember yesterday’s scare about how Craiglist wasn’t going to be doing “Erotic Services” ads anymore after having reached an agreement with 40 states? Well, we checked in this morning and can report that the NYC section is still going strong. This is a screen cap of the hundreds of early morning Brooklyn ads today done […]

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Oh Craigslist, even if you’re going to stop being the place where everyone goes to find, uh, erotic services, you will always continue to entertain us in so many other ways: F*cking yuppies and your ugly azz condos (Park Slope) Get the fuck out of my neighborhood. I am the 4th generation in my family […]

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This is the building that is starting to rise at 137 Fifth Avenue, which is the corner of Fifth Ave. & St. John’s Place. It is one of the rare new buildings going up in that part of the North Slope. Back in June, Brownstoner reported that it would be a five-story building with four […]

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The new Beacons Closet at the corner of Warren Street, at 92 Fifth Avenue, is almost ready. Work is almost done in the interior and, yesterday, the awning was going up outside. The old location is already closed. Any day now.

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We were wondering when the Commerce Bank on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue had become a TD North bank. We could have sworn it was still Commerce a couple of day earlier. Now we know, this weekend. “Commerce Bank disappeared on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights Saturday, as it did at 575 other locations. Green signs […]

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So, last week it was the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. This week the Christmas decorations went up on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Come on, people, Halloween is election. Today is Election Day. What’s next but the Consumer Orgy known as Christmas?

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We found this sign on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. If “Plaid Stamps” have any meaning to you, we hate to break it to you, but you are not a twentysomething and they will know it without even looking at you.

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Yes, the Baluchi’s that has been coming to Park Slope for, like, two years now is actually making progress. It will be located on Fifth Avenue near Second Street and by the looking of things will open any month now. It’s one of the longest running restaurant construction sagas we’ve ever seen, but they’re really […]

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[Photo courtesy of domiundbini/flickr] There are many photos this morning of Brookynites going wild after Barack Obama won the election. It was a celebration not unlike the Mets winning the World Series. This is Fifth Avenue and Union Street in Park Slope. Think there were some happy people out there? [Photo courtesy of domiundbini/flickr]

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November 4, 2008 Election (Extended Version) from Mr. Thirty on Vimeo. This is what is it was like to vote at PS 321, the Nirvana of New York Public Schools in Park Slope yesterday. Enjoy.

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Our correspondent reports: “No line outside, short waits for most districts at ps 282 on 6th ave. 3 pm.” There was a little problem, however, that we have heard over and over and over today about our correspondent’s name not being found in vote registration books, of surly poll workers and of having to fill […]

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Ohhhhh boy! We can’t express the excitement and craving that we now have knowing that finally Brooklyn has its very own Atomic Wings. We’ve envied Manhattanites for the longest time… hell, even Jersey City had one! But now, we can saunter down onto 9th St between 5th and 6th Avenues and get ourselves a bucket […]

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[Photo courtesy Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]

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Yeah. Yeah. It’s not a street couch, but there’s still something very compelling, if not timely, about this street seating: please note the presence of the jobs circular on the chair. For added ha-ha’s, we found it on the corner outside a bank.

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We meant to get to this earlier today, but the time change has caused our little Word Press platform to have a bit of scheduling glitch. (Like trying to put up scheduled posts on London time.) Anyway, here are some of the signs we caught at the Marathon yesterday.

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Oh, the joy of a Robert Scarano building. This is the big one on Fourth Avenue (right next to the big KFC for the expensive condo fried chicken lovers out there) and it’s definitely more and more on view. Brownstoner had checked it last week when there was just a little peeky-boo showing. We had […]

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“Couple storefronts south of Union Market on 6th avenue…” The exact location or ID of the business in question is unknown but the news is definitely worth passing along.–Brooklynian

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Here’s a short vid that we put together quickly to give some of the flavor of the 2008 Marathon as it traveled Fourth Avenue through Park Slope.

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Yes, we are well aware that New York City is one with a sad amount of “people neglect” that is both officially sanctioned and unofficial. Yet stories about neglect of animals always particularly depress us. Here’s one that comes to the community’s attention via our friends at Park Slope Parents. It concerns a dog on […]

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Here’s a tiny selection of the ton of pics we shot during the Marathon yesterday as it traveled down Fourth Avenue through Park Slope.

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From our friends at Park Slope Parents comes an email about a mugging on St. Johns Place between Seventh and Eighth Avenue. Of course, it’s the sort of thing that happens everywhere in Brooklyn, but sometimes Park Slope events get posted and remind everyone the bucolic Slope is perhaps less so than thought: A neighbor […]

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