If you’re looking for some hope that spring is indeed on the way, just look up! 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
ezra jack keats
Looking for some fun events to enjoy with the kids this week? We’ve got some good ones coming up in the neighborhood: Babies & Books [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/record=g1003792&searchscope=1&SORT2=R] When: Wednesday, March 5, 10am & 10:30am Where: Central Library [http:
J. C. Chandor
A Most Violent Year [https://www.facebook.com/amostviolentyearfilm], the new film from J.C. Chandor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1170855/] — who most recently made the man-at-sea Robert Redford movie All Is Lost [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk2] — will be filming in Park
Making sure crosswalks, particularly around schools, are safe is just one part of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan to increase pedestrian safety [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/nyregion/seeking-details-on-plan-to-end-traffic-fatalities.html] , and it looks like it’ll be the next focus of police in our 78th Precinct.
It’s the third year of participatory budgeting in District 39 [/politics/get-involved-in-the-third-year-of-participatory-budgeting-with-brad-lander] , which means neighbors have another chance to tell Councilmember Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/PB] what projects you’d like to see funded in our area. Ideas for projects [/politics/submit-your-participatory-budgeting-ideas-online] have already been submitted, and now
Rivet
Rivet [http://rivetbrooklyn.com/], the clothing and accessories store with a focus on jeans, has closed its shop at 103 7th Avenue, between Union and President Streets. The shop opened in 2011, and the following year they added a second location in Carroll Gardens, as well as the boutique Warp
participatory budgeting expo
It’s the third year of participatory budgeting in District 39 [/blog/politics/tell-brad-lander-how-the-slope-should-spend-1-million], which means neighbors have another chance to tell Councilmember Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/PB] what projects you’d like to see funded in our area. Ideas for projects [/blog/politics/submit-your-participatory-budgeting-ideas-online] have already been submitted,
New York State Scholastic Championships
An enormous congratulations to the 56 members of the PS/MS 282 [http://www.282parkslope.org/] Royal Panthers chess team [https://www.facebook.com/282chess] who competed this past weekend at the New York State Scholastic Championships [http://www.nyscholastics.com/] in Saratoga Springs! Everyone had a wonderful weekend, and
It’s the third year of participatory budgeting in District 39 [/blog/politics/tell-brad-lander-how-the-slope-should-spend-1-million], which means neighbors have another chance to tell Councilmember Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com/PB] what projects you’d like to see funded in our area. Ideas for projects [/blog/politics/submit-your-participatory-budgeting-ideas-online] have already been submitted,
rides
We are so close to winter’s finish line, hang in there! Photo by mfont681 [http://instagram.com/p/lFcOuIGzcg/]. 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
George Packer
Looking for something fun to do this week to put the dreary weather out of your mind? From an 18-piece band playing to a National Book Award winner reading, from knitting to a puntastic monthly competition, there’s plenty to get out and enjoy in the neighborhood. Details on those
Louise Crawford
Imagine a casual cocktail party where the talk is books, the drinks are free, and you might leave with a brand new sex toy. That’s the setup for the new Books in Babeland [https://www.facebook.com/events/811985418816334/?ref=ts&fref=ts] literary series, which begins this