doors
A Rainbow of Doors
In a brownstone world, some Park Slope neighbors took matters into their own hands.
Rachel Silberstein
Park Slope Neighbors
photo credit: PunkoGraphics [http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkoart/7990208419/in/pool-parkslopestoop] Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it toparkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com]or add it to thePark Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/]and we’ll post it on the blog.
salad
Seen from the Stoop: These Are Our Salad Days
photo via Yelp [http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/just-salad-new-york-3?select=qgCanTXLz_myQ8VTMLApGg#qgCanTXLz_myQ8VTMLApGg] Ask and the Slope will provide. Eventually. Just a few months after the dearth of neighborhood salad options sent FiPS to the hospital [http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/home/the-park-slope-salad-bar-you-may-not-have-known-about.html] , they got the good news:
Brooklyn Jews
It’s Not Too Late: Yom Kippur Tickets Still Available
Marc Chagall via mafineart [http://www.mafineart.com/curatorial_services/chagall_m__yom_kippur.phtml] L’Shana Tova! Today’s the second Day of Awe (Rosh Hashanah started Sunday at sundown), which means it’s time for the annual quandary of the unaffiliated Jew: what are you doing for Yom
Window Box
photo credit: La Osita [http://www.flickr.com/photos/la_osita/7994332274/in/pool-parkslopestoop] Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it toparkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com]or add it to thePark Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/]and we’ll post it on
Amy Sohn
Seen from the Stoop: Mama Drama, Jacobean Drama, and a Tea Shop
image credit: the Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/9223209/Shakespeares-globe.html] Motherland author Amy Sohn was on CBS to talk about “Drama and Mamas in Park Slope [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/7706711-drama-and-mamas-in-park-slope/] .” Unfortunately, they didn’t ask her about the real-life mama drama brewing over
bookend events
9 Park Slope BBF Events (And What to Eat Before You Go)
photo via agentcarlywatters [http://agentcarlywatters.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/literary-recipes-cooking-like-your-favourite-character/] The Brooklyn Book Festival [http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/BBF/Home] is upon us, and while the main event isn’t until Saturday, there’s a week’s worth of official “Bookend” events leading up to the big day. And
Water Boy
Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to parkslopestoop@gmail.com [ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com] or add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/] and we’ll post it on the blog.
roundup
The Week on the Stoop
photo credit: LienaZ [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lienazagare/7545791756/sizes/l/in/set-72157630519376160/] The public schools launched a new text messaging program [/blog/education/nyc-schools-announces-texting-program-for-parents] to keep parents informed. Sadly, they have yet to launch a corresponding set of school lunch menu emojis. After three dark years, the Park
Canning
The Greenmarket Report: Yes We Can!
@bkgreenmarkets [http://instagram.com/p/Mx7mApAy-t/]via Instagram This morning at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/grandarmygreenmarket], Chef Robin Puskas is hosting a ball canning demonstration [http://www.freshpreserving.com/getting-started.aspx] to show market-goers how to preserve summer tomatoes for use all year long. But
Seen from the Stoop: Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, Soda Control, and One Angry Patrick Stewart
photo credit: PatMinNYC viaFlickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/patminnyc/6509235829/] The NYO reports that new neighbor Patrick Stewart is as annoyed with Time Warner [http://betabeat.com/2012/09/time-warner-cable-welcomes-sir-patrick-stewart-to-park-slope-with-shitty-cable-service/] as everyone else (Time Warner Cable: an equal opportunity frustration). On the bright side, that should give him something
lost cats
Lost Cats
Yesterday, we spotted this flyer on 6th Avenue: And as it turns out, the calico isn’t the only one: FIDO Brooklyn reports [http://www.fidobrooklyn.org/rescue/adoption.html] that a second neighborhood cat has gone MIA. Sprinky (“also answers to Sprinks, Captain Sprinkles, and many terms of affection”