celebrity
PARK SLOPE – Writer, comedian, and one half of 2 Dope Queens [http://www.kingstheatre.com/calendar/2-dope-queens/], Phoebe Robinson [https://www.phoeberobinson.com/] moved to Park Slope over the summer. The Pratt graduate purchased a 1,139-square-foot apartment in June with her boyfriend who works in the music industry. “I’
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT PARK – Just before members of the Prospect Park Track Club [https://pptc.org] took off on their annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning, November 22, Council Member Brad Lander and Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/get-involved/2018-year-end-challenge-copy/?redirect_url=%2F] President Sue Donoghue unveiled the park’s
Bed Stuy
Fulton StreetBEDFORD-STUYVESANT – When she moved into her new apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant in early October, 23-year-old Lila Rimalovski was disappointed that there was no composting program in place. In fact, she didn’t find trash in garbage cans at all, but in the streets of the neighborhood. Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – Parlour [http://parlourbrooklyn.com/?keyword=%2B243%20%2B4th%20%2Bave&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjYq22OHR3gIVko7ICh3NcQBQEAAYASAAEgKLM_D_BwE] , a twelve-story, 19-unit condo building currently being constructed at 243 4th Avenue, will launch sales next spring, Curbed [https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/6/18065738/park-slope-new-condo-243-fourth-avenue-brooklyn] reports. Via parlourbrooklyn.com [http://parlourbrooklyn.
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – Dozens of advocates joined Council Member Brad Lander and Assembly Member Robert Carroll outside of the 7th Avenue F/G subway stop Friday afternoon to once again call on the MTA to install an elevator at the station. Rally for elevator at 7th Avenue F/G subway station
Business
PARK SLOPE – Small business owners uncertain about the Americans With Disabilities Act [https://www.ada.gov/] (ADA) regulations or whether their storefronts are fully accessible should attend an ADA Compliance Info Session this Friday, November 9, at the Park Slope Library. Via Park Slope Fifth Avenue Facebook [https://www.facebook.
News
PARK SLOPE – Dorothy Bruns, the 44-year-old Staten Island woman who killed two young children in Park Slope after driving her car into a group of pedestrians, was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday afternoon, the New York Post [https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/driver-charged-with-running-over-kids-including-broadway-stars-child-is-dead-in-apparent-suicide/] reports. Scene following the
Business
PARK SLOPE – On a recent evening on Fifth Avenue, I sat around a table noisily slurping a variety of amber colored liquids. The gurgling escaping our lips was an aeration technique, used by sommeliers and coffee tasters, to help us discern the delicate distinguishing notes of grass, green banana, and
Arts & Culture
SPONSORED: Sometimes the best businesses are the ones that never had any intention of being a business at all. T.J. Stone, the insanely talented comedic force of nature (Check Out his podcasts, [http://tjstoneshow.libsyn.com/] they’re frighteningly brilliant) and co-owner of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio [http://brooklynpodcastingstudio.com]
Events
PARK SLOPE – Excited crowds lined 7th Avenue Wednesday night cheering on the costumed marchers in the Park Slope Civic Council [https://parkslopeciviccouncil.org/annual-park-slope-halloween-parade/]‘s 32nd annual Halloween Parade. The parade kicked off at 6:30pm at 7th Avenue and 14th Street, headed north on 7th, turned west onto 3rd
Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – 267 6th Avenue (at Garfield), the former home of the Swedish-American Athletic Club, recently went on the market with a sale price of $5.999 million. 267 6th Avenue, November 2016 (Photo: Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Built in the 1870s, the 7,200-square-foot brownstone housed the Swedish-American Athletic Club
Announcements
The BPL announced [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-literary-prize] on Monday the winners of the fourth annual Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=510] Jeanne Theoharis [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=510]