brooklyn pride
Scenes from the Brooklyn Pride Parade
photo credit: Dan Stillman
Rachel Silberstein
happy hour
Brooklyn Pride Happy Hour: The 2012 Roster Is In
Brooklyn Pride today! In addition to the official events [/blog/events/out-and-about-and-proud-brooklyn-pride-in-park-slope-this-saturday] , a number of 5th Ave bars and restaurants will be offering assorted happy hour specials between 5pm and 7pm — regroup from the festival, power up for the parade. The 5th Avenue BID [http://parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/news/bkpridehappyhour2012] has
The City’s First CSF Comes to Park Slope
Like this, if all these fish were caught in Montauk, filleted, and sold by the share in Park Slope CSAs have long kept Brooklynites in farm-fresh produce (and sometimes eggs, meat, and dairy). But for fresh seafood, we’ve been more or less on our own. Until now. DNAinfo reports
Prospect Av
A Sign of the Times
photo credit: Thom Widmann 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.
Kestrels
A Raptor on the Roof
Got kestrels? Check your cornices. photo credit: Tony Hisgett The pigeon-sized falcons get a lot less love than their more glamorous fellows the red-tailed hawk and the peregrine falcon. At the New York Times, though, there’s plenty of praise for the avian New Yorkers, whose young are fledging this
Photos from the Accident on 5th Avenue
These were taken at the scene of the accident [/blog/news/terrible-accident-on-5th-avenue] outside the 5th Avenue Cat Clinic around 6:00 pm this evening: As of 10:30 tonight, emergency response was still on the scene: photo credit: Dan Stillman According to the latest reports from ABC News [http://abclocal.
The Complaint Department
According to the Brooklyn Paper, the rats that once lived in what’s now Atlantic Yards have been displaced by the development, and they’re taking the opportunity to settle down and raise their broods [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/23/dtg_atlanticyardsrats_2012_06_08_bk.html] in
Babeland
Your Brain is Your Biggest Sex Organ: Brooklyn Brainery and Babeland Team Up This Friday
Not intentionally coinciding with the recent-ish release of neighborhood starlet Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie [http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/movies/hysteria-with-hugh-dancy-and-maggie-gyllenhaal.html] on the subject (have you seen Hysteria yet? Also: who does her coop shifts [http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/working_on_maggie_farm_xvdQggXZrKu2rBPNUijmiJ]
Brussels Griffon
Dog-on-Dog Violence Update: Good News
photo credit: Ronald Müller-Hagan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cairn-Terrier-Garten2.jpg] Yesterday, we learned from FIDO’s Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/FIDOBrooklyn] that there was an off-leash incident [/blog/animals/dog-on-dog-violence] in Prospect Park between a pair of Brussels Griffons and a too-rough Husky. Today, an update
summer reading
Summer Reading Kicks Off at the BPL Today
It will look like this, but with children. Got a bookworm on your hands who’s been anxiously awaiting the end of the school year because it’s gonna be all books, all summer? Or you’re the parent of a not-so-avid reader who could use a little encouragement to
blood drive
Con Ed: Has Your Business, Wants Your Blood
Tomorrow, June 7, Con Edison and New York Blood Center [http://www.nybc.org/index.jsp] join forces to host the catchily-titled “Con Edison Blood Drive.” Drop by 320 4th Ave (between 1st and 2nd) to donate — they’ll be doling out the graham crackers and apple juice from 10am
Dolores Jones-Brown
Neighborhood Discusses “Restoring Trust: A Dialogue on Police-Community Relations”
graphic viaAct Now [http://actnow-advocate.nationbuilder.com/campaign] On Monday night, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Councilmembers Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, Dr. Delores Jones-Brown of John Jay College, and Udi Ofer of the New York Civil Liberties Union gathered at Beth Elohim to to discuss the troubled state of