Geese
photo credit: David Monniaux [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Branta_canadensis_DSC03398.JPG] The Prospect Park geese are safe because there are no [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/again-numbers-are-down-in-annual-goose-roundup/] Prospect Park Geese, says the New York Times. > Two years after the US Department of Agriculture
stoop gardens
More stoops in the news, and this time it’s a sad tale of plant-theivery [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/a-stoop-garden-on-lockdown/], which is apparently a thing. According to today’s Metropolitan Diarist ,Wendy Toth, Crown Heights stoop gardeners have to chain down their outdoor potted plants or
The Slope
via The Slope [http://theslopeshow.com/about/] If you haven’t been watching The Slope [http://theslopeshow.com/], a web series spoofing “hilariously shallow” Park Slope lesbians, you should maybe start. (Confession: I haven’t been watching The Slope. I am maybe definitely going to start. Because the Brooklyn Paper
Just after 6 am this morning, a woman leapt [http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/woman-jumps-to-her-death-on-second-street] from the top of a 2nd St. apartment building, reports Patch. > According to the FDNY, the woman jumped off the roof of a building between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, was in her 40s and
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.
Beer Table wants you [/blog/food-drink/14-days-to-fund-beer-tables-beer-bicycle] to want them (to get a beer bike). We got kicks, we got our cuts: Area Kids’ latest outpost [/blog/kids/get-your-kicks-cuts-coming-soon] opened on 5th. Biking on 15th St is about to get a whole lot better [/blog/transportation/bike-lanes-the-saga-continues]. Banjo the dog
5th Avenue Cat Clinic
It looks like necessary improvements are being made at the 5th Avenue Cat Clinic, where an unstable gate disastrously crashed [/blog/news/photos-from-the-accident-on-5th-avenue] into passersby earlier this month.
GAP Greenmarket
So it seems like it’s really summer: Head over now through 4pm today for samples, demonstrations, and so much produce (and as always, composting [http://www.grownyc.org/compost]/textile recycling [http://www.grownyc.org/clothing] — bring your scraps, edible and wearable!). Here’s the real farmers market question
hot dogs
photo via Yelp [http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/yAwIjaAuGSh9wvpDmAG2WQ?select=mzmfKAjN6uF-SOJTj9IWXA#xDh8rdMLmawSwoe75FEfXQ] Park Slope may have gotten the short shrift on the TONY’s 25 Best Playgrounds in NYC [http://timeoutnewyorkkids.com/things-to-do/221731/25-best-playgrounds-in-new-york-city] , but we can take comfort in the news that Gothamist thinks we have some
The 2008 show. Photo credit: David Shankbone [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fireworks_over_the_East_Village_of_New_York_City.JPG] Back in the halcyon days of 1976-2008, outerborough patriots could sip their mojitos and take in the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks from their rooftops like
B61
Crossing Brooklyn just got so much better. So, so much better. Brad Lander’s office just announced today that the B61, which runs between Downtown Brooklyn and Windsor Terrace (and also, barring the free IKEA shuttle, happens to be the best way to get from Park Slope to Red Hook)
Health
An offending cabinate. Photo credit: Jill Penman for The Brooklyn Paper [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/26/dtg_leadpaint_2012_06_29_bk.html] If you’ve got furniture from Trailer Park [http://www.trailerparkslope.com/] and kids in the house, you might want to think about redecorating [http: