The G train continues experiencing disruptions because of work on the tunnel, you’ll want to watch out along the D train if you’re heading someplace on the way to Coney Island, plus some more changes this weekend to our local subway lines. Details from the MTA [http://web.
Below you’ll find weekend subway service changes in Brooklyn for the A, C, G, B, Q, D, N, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines, plus the Franklin Avenue shuttle and some notes on changes in other boroughs. Check back Monday to see what’s happening next week. Changes
banks
The Chase [https://www.chase.com/] bank branch located at 290 Flatbush Avenue, between 7th Avenue and Prospect Place, will close in November and merge with a nearby location. According to a letter we received in the mail from the bank, the branch will consolidate with its sister location a
One of the animals on the fence overlooking the Prospect Expressway in the playground on 17th Street between 5th and 6th 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,
Catskills
Spotted on Flatbush Avenue. 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 us on Twitter [https:
Bella Gioia
If you’re looking for a way to savor the last days of summer in a few bites, you should head down to 4th Avenue’s Sicilian restaurant, Bella Gioia [http://www.bellagioianyc.com/], and order yourself the heirloom tomato salad. Opened in April [/blog/food/sicilian-restaurant-bella-gioia-now-open-on-4th-avenue], the restaurant serves
Applewood
In too-cute-to-resist news, Applewood Farm [http://applewoodfarm.wordpress.com/] , the two-acre farm in East Chatham, NY, run by Applewood [http://www.applewoodny.com/] restaurant owners Dave and Laura Shea, today welcomed a new litter of piglets! Dave and Laura had to miss the birth, as they left on a previously-booked
afternoon bite
If you love sausage and you haven’t been to Der Kommissar [http://www.derkommissar.net/], you’re doing yourself a disservice. The bar and restaurant, which opened more than three years ago [/blog/food/2-years-old-der-kom-owners-talk-sausage-and-anniversaries] at 559 5th Avenue, between 15th and 16th Streets, serves up some of the
Terroir
Terroir’s [http://restauranthearth.com/Terroir.html] Park Slope location at 284 5th Avenue, on the corner of 1st Street, which we all knew would be shuttered eventually after they announced they’d be closing up [/blog/food/terroirs-park-slope-location-is-up-for-rent] and finding new tenants for the space back in May, is
440 Gallery
As summer winds down, 440 Gallery [http://www.440gallery.com] has a great exhibition to keep the fun of the season (okay, and a bit of “metaphysical starvation”) going for a bit longer! Their annual summer theme show, Food for Thought [http://www.440gallery.com/Exhibitions], rounds up food-inspired work
closed
The windows are papered over at Sanskriti [http://www.sanskritibrooklyn.com/], the Indian restaurant at 54 7th Avenue, between St Johns and Lincoln, which opened just over nine months ago [/blog/food/7th-avenues-amin-now-sanskriti], the newest in a series of Indian restaurants in that space. Apparently it won’t be closed
graffiti
Photo by itinplace [http://instagram.com/p/r3ChTXAIbY/?modal=true]. 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.