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# The Week on the Stoop
- URL: https://bklyner.com/the-week-on-the-stoop-3-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2012-07-08T18:36:43.000Z
- Updated: 2012-07-08T18:36:43.000Z
- Author: Rachel Silberstein
- Tags: The Week on the Slope, #API-Imported

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The dreaded [Con Ed strike](/blog/news/recapping-the-con-ed-strike-and-what-it-means-for-you) began.

There was progress at [Calexico](/blog/food-drink/things-are-happening-at-calexico), and Pinkberry set an [opening date](/blog/food-drink/pinkberry-to-open-july-20).

It was [4th of July](/blog/events/let-freedom-ring-heres-where) (and we survived the [lack of fireworks](/blog/news/bill-de-blasio-wants-to-help-you-see-the-fireworks)).

The Park Slope Passive House is going to use [90% less energy](/blog/green/the-park-slope-passive-house-is-almost-finished) than everyone else’s aggressive houses.

We [laughed](/blog/art-music/the-slope-takes-park-slope-lesbian-culture-to-the-big-screen), we [danced](/blog/art-music/everybody-dance-on-4th-street), we ate [ice cream](/blog/events/this-sunday-the-ice-cream-takedown-takes-the-bell-house).

Xanadu opened at Washington Park, and director John McEneny told us [all about it](/blog/art-music/aussies-on-roller-skates-the-piper-theatres-xanadu-opens-tonight).

We weighed the [comparative merits](/blog/kids/whats-the-best-playground-in-park-slope) of Park Slope’s various playgrounds.

Uncle Barry’s [made headlines](/blog/food-drink/like-prosciutto-on-twix), reinvented bar food, ruined diets.

There was [a fire](/blog/news/big-fire-on-7th-ave-between-2nd-and-3rd) on 7th Ave.

We thought a lot about the neighborhood’s [“It” bag](/blog/shopping/what-is-the-it-bag-of-park-slope) and came to no definitive conclusions.

The parks department got a [$2 million boost](/blog/green/city-adds-2m-more-to-annual-tree-maintenance-budget).

Hip Tot Music Fest co-founder Gabby Napolitano explained what makes[ a hip tot hip](/blog/art-music/hip-tot-music-fest).