From the monthly archives: October 2005
Pig stool, Two Little Red Hens, Park Slope
Originally uploaded by ranjit.
Where is the best dessert to be found in Park Slope? You’ve done Two Little Red Hens, and admired their pig stool (thanks, Ranjit). What’s the alternative, Jane asks in the [...]
Originally uploaded by gak.
From the photostream of gak: “… Skipped 2 of the open houses and passed by the locations of 2 others to see this gem in Park Slope. Barrels of light and space, close to 7th Avenue [...]
From the New York Post: “a couple’s romantic stroll along a leafy Brooklyn block turned into a randy romp on the sidewalk that was abruptly interrupted when a cop caught the woman bare-bottomed and her boyfriend sprawled on top.”
“Officer Talat Awad spotted the obliviously passionate pair at 4:50 a.m. Thursday on the [...]
Originally uploaded by MsAnthea.
MsAnthea writes: “A little over a week ago, there was an electical fire beneath the street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The fire eventually burst out of a manhole 5 houses down from me … I was [...]
In the New York Times: “For more than a decade, doctors have advocated putting babies to bed on their backs as a precaution against sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS… however, some new parents are finding that the benefits of having babies sleep soundly – more likely when they sleep on their stomachs – [...]
The Park Slope Food Co-op just announced that it be switching to 100% wind-generated electricity from New York and Pennsylvania. The co-op board voted 66-0 in favor of the switch.
This is the largest private purchase of wind power in Brooklyn to date, and the first purchase of wind by a food co-op in the [...]
From the New York Times: “On a still-industrial strip of Fourth Avenue, just beyond the leafy residential quiet of Park Slope, this welcoming bi-level club is both bar and clubhouse, populated by diverse crowds of lesbians and their friends. The welcoming space is bigger and more polished than owner Brooke Webster’s previous venture, the now-defunct [...]
From the New York Post: “Brooklyn parents, who were hot and bothered by a billboard featuring a naked blonde across the street from an elementary school, have won their fight to have the sign taken down. A spokesman for FlashDancers, a Manhattan ‘gentlemen’s club,’ said the billboard across from PS 133 in Park Slope would [...]
Christian Lorentzen sent us a link to his take on Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and The Whale:
“People over age 50 are signally absent from Park Slope, Brooklyn. It’s a neighborhood where members of the ‘creative class’ move during their breeding years to mate, spawn, and keep housepets. The elegant brownstones are [...]
Must read: Aaron Naparstek’s lengthy treatise on Bollards, the hardened steel, concrete or stone posts buried into the pavement of city streets and sidewalks:
“In Northern European cities, you see bollards all over the place. They are used to make sure that if a motor vehicle accidentally jumps up on to a sidewalk, pedestrians [...]
As reported on MSNBC: Zagat has listed TEMPO as one of the “Top Newcomers” in its annual New York City restaurant guide, which was just released. Here’s what they say:
TEMPO, 718-636-2020. “Manhattan-style dining comes to Park Slope, [Brooklyn],” via this “terrific” new Mediterranean offering “robust flavors” in “big, airy” “SoHo-like” [...]
Design Sponge reports on Rare Device, a new design boutique opened by Rena Tom, a jewelry designer, on 7th Ave. between 15th and 16th Sts.
Design Sponge’s picks include “cards from one good bumblebee, jezebel and pancake and franks, j mendicino pottery, tonfisk designs, sharon spain anything, paperdolls creations, and ona’s [...]
Tessa writes on NYC Metblogs: “…The guy put his foot in my door and would not let me close it, demanding his tip. I tried to close it, my heart beating faster realizing I’m a single female who lives in a studio with all my neighbors out already for the night. I think by [...]
Today in the New York Times: “Like many shareholders in his 72-unit co-op in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Jay Joe Jakubowitz was furious in July when he received a letter from the building’s board of directors announcing that cellphone antenna equipment would soon be installed on the roof above his eighth-floor apartment.”
“… a civil war [...]
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn reports:
“Wednesday at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Berkeley Place (btw 6th and 7th Aves.), a London Plain tree fell on a red car that was parked on the street… The tree, like many trees on the block, had been leaning dangerously for a long time. The NYC Department of [...]
chippenziedeutch pontificates: “‘hipster’ is sooo 2003… Nowadays, it’s Whatever-You-Are-Currently-Into + ‘mafia’.”
Examples:
“I went to the Tea Lounge last night, but couldn’t get past the Toddler Mafia.”
“Going to see the Portastatic and John Vanderslice show at Southpaw? It’s sure to be filled to the brim with the Horn-Rimmed Glasses [...]
BLACK PEARL: New seafood restaurant on 833 Union St. at 7th Ave., in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Phone: 718-857-2004. Food is prepared by Frederico Duarte, who worked at Dos Caminos and Da Silvano, according to the New York Times.
Read: Park Slope’s Seafood Wars [Curbed.com]
Lobster Roll at Black Pearl (Manhattan) Gets One [...]
It’s joshb day in NY Press. After you are done reading his “little treatise about Prospect Heights and psychosis”, check out Diplomatic Fanaticism, a tribute to everyone’s favorite split-personality bucolic pregentrification-era eatery/beer-stained sports bar:
“I hail from southwestern Ohio, land of chili-topped spaghetti and the Cincinnati Bengals. In their own unfortunate ways, [...]
Recently on Forgotten New York: “When I passed this storefront at 372 5th Avenue near 5th Street, I assumed it was an elaborate movie set (Spiderman III?) or an expensive joke, but it turns out “Brooklyn Superhero Supply” is a spiffed-up tutoring center for neighborhood kids, known as 826nyc, that opened in June 2004.”
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Originally uploaded by kate at yr own risk.
kate at yr own risk reports: “…they threw an empty box at us when we walked by, and I turned around w/my camera and they split. josh wished their had been [...]
The family drama set in 1980s Park Slope. Who’s seen it?
Also good is the New York Times review, which starts out like this:
“One of the ruling assumptions of American popular culture – or at least of American independent movies – is that everyone’s adolescence [...]
It all started innocently enough, with Carnivore suggesting that aggressive baby-pushers install “cow catchers” on the front of their monster-strollers before they begin plowing down 7th Avenue.
This suggestion was somewhat controversial.
Read all 90 101 comments in the Park Slope Message Boards.
In today’s Daily News: “Two men were shot and robbed by a gunman clad in dark clothes early yesterday morning in a gay meeting spot in Prospect Park … The gunman shot a 29-year-old in the thigh about 5:30 a.m., then pumped a slug into the chest of his 28-year-old companion and swiped a gold [...]
Photos of Open House New York 2004 in Brooklyn: whatisee.org
JessicaSophia writes in the Message Boards:
“The thread about Open House New York got me to thinking about Montauk Club. When my fiance and I were looking for a site for our wedding, we toured the Montauk Club and [...]
From lowercase L, a Park Slope blog dedicated to William Levin’s obsession/annoyance with hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L (“It looks like an uppercase i … WHY DO PEOPlE WRITE lIKE THIS?”):
“This chalkboard menu sits outside the new Cocoa Bar, a coffee, chocolate and wine lounge around the [...]
Frank Bruni, restaurant destroyer for the New York Times, weighs in on a topic that’s been burning up the Daily Slope message board: is new(ish) Seventh Ave restaurant Sette worth your while?
Overall, Bruni seems to have a gentler hand than our Daily Slope posters.
Compare Bruni:
An appetizer of roasted asparagus was [...]
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