hot
Delivery at Key Foods
Yes, please.
Rachel Silberstein
Park Slope Coop
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.
Brownout
Con Ed Warns of Possible Brownouts
Word from Twitter [https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/coned%20park%20slope] is that neighbors around Park Slope (also Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene, Windsor Terrace, Bed-Stuy, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Midwood, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Gravesent, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach, so I guess we’re all
Brook Borel
Neighbors in the News: Summer Reading
photo via Michele Filgate [http://readandbreathe.tumblr.com/]/Community Bookstore [http://communitybookstore.tumblr.com/] Three Park Slope authors have books (or books-in-progress) making waves this week, and in response, we’re feeling itchy, socially-conscious, and apocalyptic. Itchy: Park Slope science journalist and bed bug survivor Brooke Borel [http://brookeborel.com/
Atlantic Center
What’s Next for Atlantic Terminal?
photo credit: Paul Lowry [http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_lowry/3122304993/] According to the New York Observer, the Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center malls may be about to get a makeover [http://observer.com/2012/06/ay-mall/] as part of the Atlantic Yards project. In other words: the days
Summer Kicks Off with a Vengeance — Here’s How to Stay Cool
just keep visualizing So today’s going to be is hot (current temp: 91 and climbing. And the heat’s expected to last three days. Install that window unit yet?). Which means that even the most rugged among us should take precautions to avoid trouble (also: misery). What to do?
rankings
Park Slope, Bastion of Food Power
photo via Fort Reno [http://fort-reno.us/about.html] The L Magazine just published their Brooklyn Food Power Rankings [http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-brooklyn-food-power-rankings/Content?oid=2239318] , and it looks like Park Slope did pretty well (if you were a competitive person, you might call it “winning”). The Slope
Gas Lamps
The Gas Lamps of Park Slope: A Surprisingly Short History
Those historic-seeming gas lamps? Maybe not so historic [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120618/park-slope/park-slopes-antique-gas-lamps-not-so-historic-after-all] after all, reports DNAinfo’s Leslie Albrecht. Recently, a Berkeley Place homeowner asked Community Board 6 if he could install one outside his nearly 100-year-old brownstone. Because, you know, “old-world charm.” Except that technically,
5th Avenue Street Fair
Oh, the Empanadas You’ll Meet
photo credit: rob0tsandlace [http://www.flickr.com/photos/80188797@N08/] 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.
Clothes
Sell, Swap, or Donate: The Summer Clean-Out-Your-Closet Guide to Park Slope
Summer officially begins tomorrow, which technically means you have one more day for spring cleaning. Ready for a pre-season purge? Neighborhood resale shops are on hand to accept the spoils of your labors and redistribute them to more maxi-dress-loving/mini-skirt-wearing/cashmir-friendly owners: Two Lovers: [http://twoloversnyc.com/] A haven of
Building Community, One Yard at a Time
photo via StreetEasy [https://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/686339-multi-167-6th-avenue-park-slope-brooklyn] From the Wall Street Journal, a tale [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577474630472351976.html?mod=googlenews_wsj] of two backyards. > When Michael-John van Rhyn and Mallory Loehr bought their brownstone town house at 167 Sixth Ave. in Park Slope in
mallory hagan
Park Slope’s Mallory Hagan Named Miss New York
photo via New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-beauty-mallory-hagan-crowned-york-article-1.1097121] Park Sloper by way of Alabama, Fashion Institute of Technology junior and longtime pageant queen Mallory Hagan [http://malloryhagan.tumblr.com/] took the Miss New York title this weekend. Hagan, 23, used her “punishing one-two combo of