bars
Owner Kitty Hernandez is trying to convert [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/25/dtg_garfields_2012_06_22_bk.html] the 4th Ave event space from party venue into full-time bar and restaurant, but not everyone is happy about it. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Garfield’s [http://www.
heat
A little bit? Maybe?
Got lunch plans [http://www.heresparkslope.com/home/2012/6/22/open-for-business-zitos-north-195-fifth-avenue.html] ?
From neighbor Lauren Elvers Collins: “Earlier this week, parents and teachers at my sons’ school (PS 10 in Park Slope) shocked the kids with a flash mob…we’ve been rehearsing for months and it was well worth it! The two women towards the middle of the video with the
community bookstore
What do you think? You could be forgiven for not noticing yet — the revised awning’s not up yet — but the times they are a’changin’ at Community Bookstore: [http://communitybookstore.net/] Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn reports [http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com/2012/06/21/new-logo-new-awning-for-community-bookstore/] they’ve got a new(
photo via New York Methodist The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association just recognized New York Methodist Hospita [http://www.nym.org/]l for outstanding stroke care [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/top-stroke-honors-ny-methodist]. Obviously there’s no good place to have a stroke, but it’s reassuring to
photo credit:rob0tsandlace [http://www.flickr.com/photos/80188797@N08/] 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.
gallery players
William Goldberg The Gallery Players’ annual Black Box New Play Festival [http://galleryplayers.com/plays/bb2012/] is winding down, and tonight marks the opening of the final play in the series — the last “box” of the year. According to the Players’ website, local playwright Judd Lear Silverman [http://juddls.home.
city pools
photo credit: NYC Municipal Archives Brooklyn Based just published a nice guide [http://brooklynbased.net/email/2012/06/take-a-dip/] to the borough’s public pools [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/pools]. Tragically, they won’t be open for another week (the season kicks off 6/28) — till then, comfort
And so the heat continued.
Dan Futterman
The New York Observer breaks the news [http://observer.com/2012/06/screenwriter-and-tv-star-dan-futterman-buys-park-slope-pad/] that Dan Futterman [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001246/] — most famous either for playing Val Goldman in “The Birdcage” or writing the screenplay for “Capote,” depending on your frame of reference (also: Stephan the metrosexual pastry chef
Community Gardens
That proposed community garden at 4th Ave and Sackett? DNAinfo reports that after 20 years of “bureaucratic wrangling,” it’s finally happening [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120620/park-slope/long-awaited-community-garden-finally-taking-root-park-slope-vacant-lot#ixzz1yMAIoXUD] . Probably.