When do we want it? Now! Photo of graffiti on 7th Avenue by carryboo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/carryboo/8045594737/] on Flickr. Have a stellar photo to share? Send it to editor@bklyner.com or add it to the South Slope News Flickr Group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/
6/15 Green
The annual 6/15 Green [https://www.615green.org/] stoop sale is coming up this Saturday, October 6 from 10am-3pm at the garden on the corner of 6th Ave and 16th St (the rain date is Sunday, October 7). Stop by, pick up a bargain and support this green corner–
missing
Be on the lookout for Ming, a black cat without a collar who’s been missing since Friday. She was last seen in a backyard around Garfield and 1st Street. I bumped into her owner as she was putting up these signs around the neighborhood, and she noted that Ming
Alberto Garcia
The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 40-year-old Armando Vasquez, who is wanted in connection with last year’s murder of 21-year-old Alberto Garcia. On March, 16, 2011 at just after 5am, police responded to a call of a man having been assaulted on 3rd Avenue
Scooters
And here we thought the main benefit to the scooter was that you could carry it indoors with you.
fundraisers
Take a stroll though Prospect Park while raising money to help keep our big backyard beautiful. Saturday, November 3 is the Prospect Park Alliance’s third annual walk-a-thon [http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/walkathon], a 5K loop around the park [http://www.prospectpark.org/media/file/map-2012-walkathon-web.pdf?utm_
Tell Councilmember Brad Lander what projects you think deserve funding in our neighborhood! The first participatory budgeting meeting [/opinion/participatory-budgeting-season-throws-its-first-pitch] in our area is tonight, Monday, October, 1 at 6:30pm at PS 230, 1 Albamarle Rd.
Security Gates
We’re enjoying the murals on the security gates of the closed Triangle Sports [/blog/business/whats-next-for-triangle-sporting-goods] while we can, as we make guesses as to what’s coming to the unusually-shaped building, which sold for a record-breaking $4.1 million [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/38/dtg_trianglesportssold_
The NYPD is reporting that the 17-year-old boy who went missing [/blog/crime/17-year-old-tzbi-stolzenberg-missing] at the end of Yom Kippur last Wednesday night has been found and is in good health. After he was last seen around the area of Marlborough Road and Foster Ave, hundreds of volunteers [http://www.
robberies
A man was reportedly stabbed in the torso by a man who stole his iPone at the 18th Avenue F station at about 2:30am today, according to CBS Local [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/09/30/man-stabbed-in-smartphone-theft/]. Police say the thief got away with the phone, and the victim
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Great news, hungry Ditmas Parkers: A fella named Dallas, pictured to the right, would like to make you breakfast. His offer of a pancake breakfast/artist talk is currently posted to Craigslist [http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bar/3291979726.html]: > Im an artist from Ohio, currently getting my MFA