Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a few places that are for sale and are hosting open houses this weekend, and have broken down the offerings below. What do you think? 457 9th Street [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/3336899] Open House:
579 5th Avenue
Two South Slope neighbors are opening Align Brooklyn [http://www.alignbrooklyn.com/], a fitness studio that integrates yoga, Pilates, functional training, chiropractic therapy, and nutritional information, on the second floor of 579 5th Avenue, on the corner of 16th Street, and they’re celebrating tonight, Friday, September 19 from 6-9pm,
To help renew the fields from heavy use over the past year, Prospect Park will close the Long Meadow Ballfields [http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/places/ballfields] to the public this winter. Starting today, Friday, September 19, fencing will go up around the area to help it recuperate for the
334 9th Street
The 9st Laundrette Cleaners recently closed [/blog/business/park-slope-closings-roundup-ms-prime-meats-9st-laundrette-cleaners-excelsior-more] at 334 9th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, after nearly 20 years in business, and now that the awning has been removed, it’s revealed an old ghost sign for a long-gone business. The outline of the letters are for
It’s still stoop sale season! With a nice, cool weekend ahead of us, this should be a good one take a walk and find some bargains in the neighborhood. Here are a few that are coming up: Where: 426 5th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues [http://newyork.craigslist.
9st Laundrette Cleaners
The 9st Laundrette Cleaners recently closed [/blog/business/park-slope-closings-roundup-ms-prime-meats-9st-laundrette-cleaners-excelsior-more] at 334 9th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, after nearly 20 years in business, and now that the awning has been removed, it’s revealed an old ghost sign for a long-gone business. The outline of the letters are for
ICY Signs
One of our favorite neighborhood things: Watching to see what new signs go up on the side of Stephen Powers’ [/blog/art-music/the-art-of-the-sign-talking-love-history-and-community-with-artist-shop-owner-stephen-powers] 4th Avenue shop [http://www.firstandfifteenth.net/]. For contrast, see how it looked back in April [/blog/photos/photo-of-the-day-if-you-were-here]. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send
Brooklyn Design Lab
The current window display featuring work from kids at the Brooklyn Design Lab [http://www.brooklyndesignlab.org/] is, as they always are, so awesome. 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
There are a whole bunch of fun events coming up in the neighborhood this weekend — from a reading celebrating female writers, to a theater and dance performance that glows in the dark, to a ton of local Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend events, to a sexy cocktail hour. That, and so
5% Days
If you’ve got some grocery shopping to do, tomorrow is a great day to do it, as 5% of all the sales at the Gownaus Whole Foods [http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/brooklyn] on Friday, September 19 will go to our local PS 118 The Maurice Sendak Community School
240 7th Avenue
The former home of Butter Lane Cupcakes is one of the few storefronts on 7th Avenue [/?s=7th+avenue+vacancies] to be vacant only briefly — a sign recently went up in the window announcing a new salon for the space. The sign says we’ll soon have a “beauty center
Up to 12,000 people volunteer their time to make the TCS New York City Marathon [http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/] one of the best races in the world — and you can help! If you’re looking to do more than stand along 4th Avenue and cheer on the runners as