Food & Drink
Fiat Café at 80 6th Avenue opened on April 7. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Bet you can guess Stephan Iacovelli’s favorite car. Iacovelli is the owner of Fiat Café, a neighborhood Italian bistro that opened for business on Thursday, April 7. Owner Stephan Iacovelli of Fiat
Health
Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)The state Health Department hit Coney island Hospital with six violations for a botched treatment that lead to the death of a 47-year-old grandmother earlier this year, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/coney-
Bensonhurst
Rendering of the new Coney Island Amphitheater. (Provided by Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment)The Coney Island Amphitheater [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/coney-islands-long-awaited-amphitheater-open-july/] hasn’t even been built and already the venue has some big acts scheduled to perform there this summer. Tickets
Announcements
The Kings Highway Library. (Photo: Google Maps)Attention bookworms! The Kings Highway Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/kings-highway] will be closed for one week while the branch get upgraded, energy-efficient LED lighting. The library will shut down at the end of the day on Friday, April 15,
Food & Drink
Photo by Park Slope StoopIf you have a brief look at our sushi restaurant article and review archives [/?s=sushi], you’ll be reminded that the Slope is certainly not lacking in this food option (and we haven’t reviewed all of them). We’d bet that you’d have
Business
Photo by Heather Chin/Sunset Park VoiceIt’s a rare thing to find an eatery that offers something truly unique to a neighborhood or to Brooklyn, but Fifty On Crepe House [http://www.instagram.com/fifty_on](472 49th Street), which opened just two months ago, is one of those
Announcements
Rendering of the new Coney Island Amphitheater. (Provided by Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment)The Coney Island Amphitheater [/coney-islands-long-awaited-amphitheater-open-july/] hasn’t even been built and already the venue has some big acts scheduled to perform there this summer. Tickets for the open-air entertainment space
Arts & Culture
Photo: Scott Teplin / teplin.com.The path from Lascivious Biddy to PTA Mom is not immediately apparent, but Deidre Rodman Struck connects the dots with far fewer than six degrees of separation, ending up at the Second Annual Music Festival to benefit PS 130 [https://www.facebook.com/Ps130Pta/photos/
Arts & Culture
Image via Google Maps.The multi-faceted arts organization and publishing company, e-flux [http://www.e-flux.com/], will be serving up dinner instead of emails with their new restaurant coming to Clinton Hill. They’re still getting things in place before opening up at 224 Greene Avenue where
history
Green-Wood Chapel. (Photo via Beyond My Ken [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2015_Green-Wood_Chapel_1.jpg] .The Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] voted in favor of landmark status for a series of extremely significant properties and
Arts & Culture
Courtesy of Park Slope Performing ArtsSlowly but surely, a theater training program for kids and teens has built on its deep neighborhood roots. Park Slope Performing Arts [https://parkslopeperformingarts.com/] is a family-owned business located in Windsor Terrace (135 Windsor Place just off Prospect Park West). The business is
Nonsponsored
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