This Week In The Slope: Elephants Lumber, Pork For Sale, Banh Mi Glee, And More
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• Dale Talde & Partners’ Pork Slope and Thistle Hill Tavern spaces are up for sale.
• Teens and teachers adapt novel of police brutality for site-specific theatre production.
• Second 2016 heat wave for NYC to bring scorching weather through Tuesday.
• Meet the Mets? Islanders thinking about switching from Kings (County) and heading to Queens.
• Slower than ‘A Herd Of Lumbering Elephants’: New study seeks to improve bus service.
• Park Slope Library gets a new garden and a furry friend.
• City Council introduces ‘Right to Record’ Act.
• Dining Review: The great outdoors is alive, well, and tasty at HENRI’s Backyard.
• Council passes bill requiring breastfeeding centers.
• Police investigating single ‘suspect connection’ for 4 area attempted rapes.
• City launches voter registration forms in five new languages.
• Windsor Terrace musician brings free jazz and sea shanties to waterfront concert.
• Baltic Street becoming boomtown? New condo building just topped out.
• MTA to renovate Park Slope, Sunset Park & Bay Ridge stations under new subway plan.
• Park Slope neighbor raises $80K to rebuild Nepali villages after earthquake.
• Venticinque Cafe is closed for ‘Foreseeable Future’ — Here are 25 reasons why we’ll miss it.
• City Council approves second expansion of Park Slope Historic District.
• City hires Ex-Toronto politician with past steamy sex scandal to lead BQX Streetcar Project.
• City Council passes bill requiring cops to report use of force.
• Smells like Slope real estate round up spirit: 90s Grunge Edition.