If you can do a great illustration of kale and strollers, you might be just the person to design a crest that represents South Slope for a contest from UncommonGoods [http://www.uncommongoods.com/]. The online retailer, which is based in Sunset Park, just launched the Brooklyn Flag Project [http:
The free Macy’s Fishing Clinics [http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/places/audubon/pop-up-audubon#july august] return to Prospect Park’s [http://www.prospectpark.org/] Audubon Center on Saturdays and Sundays in July and August, and they could use a few good anglers to help out! The park is looking
service changes
If you’re planning on riding the N or the R trains past 10pm this week, watch out for some shuttle buses and a track switch as FasTrack work hits those lines. Details on those changes and more from the MTA: D service operates in two sections Late nights, 12:
weekdays
The G train is coming at us slow again late at night this week, and you’ll want to watch out if you’re hoping to ride the F to the Lower East Side after hours. Details on those changes via the MTA: Coney Island-bound F trains run via the
If you can do a great illustration of kale and strollers, you might be just the person to design a crest that represents Park Slope for a contest from UncommonGoods [http://www.uncommongoods.com/]. The online retailer, which is based in Sunset Park, just launched the Brooklyn Flag Project [http:
The N and the R are doing a little FasTrack dance this week, so watch out if you were planning on riding either of those lines past 10pm. Details on those changes (which includes shuttle buses) and more below: D service operates in two sections Late nights, 12:01am to
This Week on the Stoop
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70th Precinct
The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Natavia Whitaker, who was reported missing on Friday, June 13. She was last seen leaving her home on East 19th Street, between Albemarle and Beverley, at 7:30am. Natavia is described as 5’4″ tall and about 170 pounds,
flowers
In full bloom on Sterling Place. Take a photo in Park Slope recently? Send it to editor@bklyner.com, add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/] , or tag it #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll post it here. Also, follow us on
Green-Wood Cemetery
“Green-wood hawk smiles for a photo, yesterday in between rain showers,” says neighbor Dianna D’Amico, who shares this great pic. Taken any portraits — avian or otherwise — in the neighborhood lately? Share those, and any local photos, with us. Add them to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope]
meet the neighbors
At a point earlier in his life, it may not have seemed that Michael Crocker would end up in Park Slope. Growing up, he always loved international travel, and spent a good part of his adult life overseas. “My dad was a pilot, so I got deeply discounted airfare,” he
road closures
It’s going to be a busy weekend in the neighborhood: Brooklyn Pride [/blog/events/brooklyn-pride-comes-to-5th-avenue-on-saturday] is on Saturday, June 14, and Seventh Heaven [/blog/events/food-music-shopping-more-at-seventh-heaven-street-fair-on-sunday] is on Sunday, June 15 (not to mention all the other fun stuff [/blog/events/south-slope-weekend-events-spotlight-june-12-15] going on in the area). The subway