This Week In The Slope: 17 Strikes, Nude Tempest Success, Spokes Without Jokes, And More
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• Police called to scene of Community Board 6 meeting after chaos erupts over Citi Bike expansion.
• Art Slope will turn neighborhood into enormous 9-day art installation.
• Theater Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Nude Tempest’ in Prospect Park as gritty pastoral. [NSFW]
• Man charged for stabbing wife to death turns himself in at 78th Precinct.
• Scathing Op-Ed in the Daily News about candidate appeared on primary day
• Dining Review: Three square meals and a corpse reviver at Krupa Grocery.
• 5th Avenue Restaurant Break-ins — Burglar pilfers Lotus Sandwiches; Less successful at Mezcal’s Mexican [Photos]
• The Down-Low: Bill Murray tends bar, Red Hook subway dreams, and more.
• Man Bun-Sporting Park Slope neighbor charged for mugging 93-Year-Old woman in East Harlem store.
• Pups ready to make a splash as Prospect Park’s Dog Beach re-opens ahead of schedule.
• Summer and Smoke: M.S. 51 student Graeme Lauterbach-Mason strikes out 17 batters in travel baseball game.
• Here’s a breakdown of your local primary results.
• NYC’s first 2016 case of West Nile Virus reported in Brooklyn.
• After Supercollider R.I.P., $45 million development coming to 4th Avenue.
• Jonathan Safran Foer unveils his new book at Congregation Beth Elohim.
• Riviello and Big Band bring ‘La Dolce Vita’ to Brooklyn block party.
• 17 apple-picking farms within a two-hour drive of Brooklyn.
• Wanderlust Festival draws more than 8,000 yogis to Prospect Park.
• Greenmarket Recipe: Cucumber Salad.
• The 5 most important things when selecting an after school program. (Sponsored)