Watch your back, Food Coop — Amazon is moving in on your territory. Starting today, the mega-retailer begins its grocery delivery service, called Amazon Fresh [https://fresh.amazon.com/Gateway], and it chose to start here in Park Slope before eventually expanding to other Brooklyn neighborhoods, reports Re/code [http://recode.
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Growing up listening to Israeli songs and singing them herself in Hebrew is something deeply ingrained in Park Slope’s Inbal Hever [http://www.inbalhever.com/], who is now a professional classical singer. “Whenever I sing in Hebrew, it feels the most natural and relevant to who I am and
Singers
Growing up listening to Israeli songs and singing them herself in Hebrew is something deeply ingrained in Park Slope neighbor Inbal Hever [http://www.inbalhever.com/], who is now a professional classical singer. “Whenever I sing in Hebrew, it feels the most natural and relevant to who I am and
Civic Sweep
Got old electronics gathering dust in your apartment? Toss them responsibly this Sunday, October 19 from 10am to 4pm, at the e-waste recycling event [http://lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=5387&Itemid=1&year=2014&month=10&day=
9th Street
Seven months after opening on 9th Street [/blog/business/uncle-arthurs-cafe-now-open-on-9th-street], Uncle Arthur’s Cafe has closed for good. Despite a sign on the door of 237 9th Street, just off 4th Avenue, promising they’re closed for renovations, owner Richard Gussoff tells us the coffee shop and restaurant, which was
Gowanus Expressway
Police are investigating an early morning crash that left two people dead when they lost control of their motorcycle on the Gowanus Expressway and fell to the pavement below an overpass. Police say 30-year-old Jose Chevere of Brooklyn Heights and 24-year-old Jalissa Otero of Bay Ridge were traveling eastbound on
Photo by gsewtz [http://instagram.com/p/uObPCVM8FI/]. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll post them here. Also, follow
Photo by Tom Prendergast, who spotted these fellas on 12th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Share it with us! Add it to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope] group, tag it #southslope on Instagram, or email it to editor@bklyner.
There are a whole bunch of fun events coming up in the neighborhood this weekend — from a bacon cook-off and a chance to relive your homecoming dance, to a poetry event and an afternoon of making the neighborhood more beautiful. That, and so much more, so get out there and
harvest festival
Ready your garden for the spring, enjoy some baked goods, and socialize with neighbors at the annual 6/15 Green [http://www.615green.org] Harvest Festival, taking place this Saturday, October 18 from 11am to 5pm at the community garden on the corner of 6th Avenue and 15th Street. This
e-waste
Got old electronics gathering dust in your apartment? Toss them responsibly this Sunday, October 19 from 10am to 4pm, at the e-waste recycling event [http://lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=5387&Itemid=1&year=2014&month=10&day=
Last year, neighbors came together and gave over $10,400 to the local non-profit CAMBA [http://www.camba.org/], which meant they were able to provide a full Thanksgiving meal to hundreds of local families [/blog/volunteering/after-cambas-successful-turkey-drive-local-families-have-a-happy-thanksgiving] . We think we can do that again, and do it better. Once