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Well, we’ve gone from a not-as-great Christmas tree last year, to NO Christmas tree at all this year! According to the Daily News, the city won’t put up the Christmas tree this year because they are short on cash. So how much green are we talking? A grand total [...]
Gothamist reports a man was struck and killed by a southbound N train at the Union street stop this morning shortly after 5:00am. WABC 7 provided more details on this tragic news:
A witness told police the victim was pushed onto the tracks, and detectives were investigating that claim.
Morning service on [...]
A Summer Writing Intensive
What is Reading-Based Writing?
The basic idea behind reading-based writing is that we read to write and write to read. Because these two disciplines are intertwined, we’re always thinking critically, not just when we’re “studying.†The course will improve students’ writing skills by teaching them how to:
• Comfortably read/write in [...]
Whoa… Diane writes on the Park Slope Message Board:
“Wow! At 3 AM, my son looked out the window – 6th Ave bet.10-11th St. and witnessed this huge tree come crashing down…totally destroying a Honda. Thank goodness this happened in the middle of the night and so there were no cars or people walking [...]
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kensingtonmom writes on the Park Slope Message Board:
Does this latest terrorist plot make anyone wonder if living here is such a hot idea?
I can’t help but think when we [...]
Close-up of the spraying device
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quijibo writes:
oh feck. how much duct tape are we gonna need for this?
the media along with the medical community feed the hysteria
people wish to have a sense of control
[...]
Coming on the heels of an active discussion on the Park Slope Message Board regarding the safety of Propsect Park, a man was found stabbed to death in the park last weekend. 61-year old William Oliver was found dead on a wooded trail in the infamous Vale of Cashmere section of Prospect Park.
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Thanks to kosherdave for these photos. This might not make sense if you haven’t read the gender-bending foofaraw over the “Found: Boy’s Hat” post on Park Slope Parents list.
You can read some Park Sloper [...]
A bit late, but here it is anyway. Thanks to Daniel, among others, for sending this in!
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Super Cool: 86%
So Not Cool: 16%
Click here to view current poll status (and comments) in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
daniel: “Cool…except when you can’t get a taxi home to Brooklyn from the [...]
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Flyer found adrift in Grand Army Plaza near the entrance to Prospect Park on Feb. 2, 2006.
“Answers to the name of ‘Olga.’ “
Have you seen her?
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… time to start thinking about alternative energy sources. Wind power, anyone? gak writes about the wind vane on 8th Avenue on Flickr:
“A rural touch in an urban setting … There was enough wind [...]
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lasadh says: “This car crashed into the front door of my apartment building tonight (Dec. 29, 2005).”
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Oiseau writes in the Message Boards: “…I ended up riding over the Brooklyn Bridge with the cars. It was the only way to ride over that bridge, other wise you had to walk it.”
“I yelled at [...]
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And ponder the media…
The word “illegal” has been thrown around pretty loosely, and over and over again, at every opportunity, in the media.
And now, that sentiment is being echoed by the anti-strike crowd (by [...]
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Guest writes: “A manhole cover blew on 5th ave. They started off ABC 6:00 news with this ‘breaking news’.”
Pitu adds: “Channel 7 is reporting … two buildings evacuated for carbon monoxide on [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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