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Meanderthal writes on the Park Slope Message Board: “Just noted this posting on Overheard in New York under the title “No, Actually Just He and the Plant Are Working Together”. It goes like this:
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Laura B writes on the Park Slope Message Board:
Please help me find Olive a home.
She’s an adorable 8-week-old tuxedo kitten we found in a parking lot on Bergen street. She’s everything you want a kitten to be: playful, charming, wide-eyed. She does goofy kitten things like chase a little [...]
Gedney Pickle during the parade
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So, the Associated Press may have dubbed Brooklyn “the place to be”… Is Minnesota “the place to be from”?
There seems to be a disproportionately high number of Minnesota expats in [...]
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Yavel’s list:
Best Loaf – Lopez Bakery – 5th ave bet 18 th and 19th St. The bread is very good and cheap. I always get the 7 grain. They make a nice loaf, but [...]
We just received this Onion-esque parody of “SmartMom”, the Park Slope blogger-turned-Brooklyn Papers columnist:
“SmartMom” tells some interesting stories, and she’s done some great things for the blogging community in Park Slope… but she has a writing style that some people cannot read without physically cringing, judging from opinions on the
more-eggs-please writes in the Park Slope Message Boards:
“I was walking my dog along Berkeley Pl betwen 6th and 7th last night around 11 pm and came across the following ridiculous typed note taped to a bicycle seat. The bike was locked to a street cleaning sign next to the street:”
” ‘Please [...]
Amidst rumors that the Pavilion Park Slope theater (on Prospect Park West) is closing, seven24 writes in the Park Slope Message Boards: “In 1996 the day the Pavilion opened, I began working the concession stand. Thru my time there I was grossed out on multiple occasions. ”
“The manager at the time demanded the [...]
Before you drop $950,000 for that handyman’s special in Gowanus/G-Slope/BoCoCa East, you might want to consider the likelihood that Brooklyn’s hottest nabe may soon end up at the bottom of the Gowanus canal.
Alex Tingle’s GoogleMaps-flood data mashup lets you set different global warming sea levels and watch as New York City [...]
quijibo writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
the next “friends”ian hit tv series will be about…
a lesbian couple who adopt an ecuadorean orphan
who doublepark their strollers at the tea lounge
shop at the food co-op + back to the land
are vegan
and there’s al [...]
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Ziggly writes in the Park Slope Message Boards:
I am moving my family to Park Slope (near the Union street train station on 4th ave) in a month and was wondering [...]
Q. Will Katie Couric make a good “CBS Evening News” anchor?
“She has always done a good job and I don’t know why she wouldn’t on the new show. I like when she comes out in public for interviews. She has a nice smile. I’ll miss seeing her reporting … in the mornings.” –Glen Martin, [...]
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Neighborhood Improvement via the Park Slope Message Boards:
“I wouldn’t mind a fancy-ish gym, like Equinox.”
“Previously I was longing for a good Indian restaurant, but now we have the lovely Kinara!”
“Ethiopian food! I’d walk over [...]
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dope on the slope writes in the Park Slope Message Boards:
“We’ve started a group on flickr to chronicle the evolution of Gowanus from what it is today into whatever it [...]
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UFO over Prospect Park?
CatsFive writes: “August, 2003, the night of the blackout on the eastern seaboard, I went up to my apartment’s roof and took this 45-second exposure of a police helicopter coming [...]
Distaster strikes the Slope. Our embedded correspondents report that the famed Costas statue (featured below) was removed – or stolen – last night. We’re led to believe it was theft by the rather unceremonious, gaping hole left in the ground . Photos of the scene to follow…
UPDATE
Time Out New York‘s [...]
A new addition to the Eighth Avenue streetscape popped up over the past month or so. The building, located at Eighth and Union, recently had a brownstone rehab… is this what happens to the leftover concrete?
Does anyone have any idea who this “Costas” person is? The property records show the owner of the lot [...]
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Up over at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.
“Best name for a Brooklyn Blog” goes to Dope on the Slope, who recently snapped this picture of The Hanged Man, an “odd [...]
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kungfucat writes: “when I looked out my window this morning to admire my new view i found to my surprise a beautiful blanket of snow…”
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… to Open for Gentrification, according to the New York Times:
“The Gowanus Canal often stinks and is almost always spotted with slicks of oil. The streets alongside it are practically deserted, the silence broken by [...]
Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
John Freeman Gill writes in the New York Times: “New Yorkers … are not known for their tolerance of things that protrude, dangle, leak or waft from a neighbor’s yard into theirs. But on Sixth Street near Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, there stands – looms, really [...]
From the New York Times: “A bear with a prominent grease spot on his little beige nose spends his days wedged behind the bumper guard of an ironworker’s pickup in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. A fuzzy rabbit and a clown, garroted by a bungee cord, slump from the front of a Dodge [...]
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ic96 writes in the Park Slope Message Boards: “How is the marathon watching in Park Slope on 4th Ave? I’ve normally gone to the Upper East Side bars/restaurants to hang out for marathon watching. How [...]
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 [...]
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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monoecious writes on the Park Slope Community Journal: “i’m looking for a photobooth in park slope. anyone know of one, or can i get confirmation on whether or not there is still one at buttermilk bar?”
Pimping our own forum: Park Slope Message Boards
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chippenziedeutch wrote in the Park Slope message boards: “Did anyone else hear those two loud explosions last night (Friday) (around 9:00ish)? I was in a backyard and it seriously sounded like someone had done blowed something up. Anyone know what it was?”
Read more: Bombs on 5th Ave.? [Park Slope Message Boards]
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