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PS 107 Students Don Antlers And Dash Through Prospect Park On Reindeer Run

PS 107 kids (plus reindeer!) on the course of the NYRR Reindeer Run. (Courtesy NYRR)While some of you were just taking the first sip of your morning coffee last Saturday, Prospect Park was festive and packed with runners and antlers for the New York Road Runners’ Jingle Bell Jog,

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PS 107 Students Don Antlers And Dash Through Prospect Park On Reindeer Run

PS 107 kids (plus reindeer!) on the course of the NYRR Reindeer Run. (Courtesy NYRR)While some of you were just taking the first sip of your morning coffee last Saturday, Prospect Park was festive and packed with runners and antlers for the New York Road Runners’ Jingle Bell Jog,

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Friday’s PS 107 Auction Introduces Online Bidding

Not able to make it to tonight’s PS 107 Spring Auction? No problem! The school has introduced online bidding this year, so if you’re at home or on the go, you can bid for your favorite items via smartphone or computer. The auction features everything from airline tickets

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Neighborhood Elementary School Tours On The Horizon

It’s hard to believe, but if you’re a prospective Pre-K or Kindergarten parent (your friendly South Slope News editor raises her hand), it’s already time to start thinking about those 2014-2015 elementary schools. If you’d like to take a behind the scenes look at our area

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Rainbow Loom Addiction Sweeps Across South Slope

Forget marijuana and meth, South Slope kids have a new addiction and its name is Rainbow Loom. “It was like the kids couldn’t live without it,” P.S. 107 principal Eve Litwack recently told DNAinfo. “It was just getting to the point where it was really crazy.” P.S.

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Photo Flashback: P.S. 107

Not too much has changed in the last 100 years for the exterior of P.S. 107 (8th Avenue, between 14th and 15th Street). The above shot is dated by the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection 191-?, and was taken from the corner of 14th Street and 8th Avenue.

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A Knuffle Bunny Tour Through South Slope

Even as an adult, there is nothing quite like the magic of watching the characters in your favorite stories come to life. My son is a HUGE fan of the Mo Willems classic, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and it just so happens that our neighborhood is the epicenter of

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Park Slope Elementary Schools Are Unanimously Rezoned

In the end, it happened not with a bang but a whimper, as a quiet meeting ended in a unanimous decision to rezone Park Slope’s public elementary schools. The Community Education Council (CEC) gathered on Wednesday night, November 28, to discuss the fate of our school zones. The meeting