This Week In The Slope: Spot & Stop, Prince Raindrops, Matzo Ice Cream Props, And More
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Here’s a look back at some stories you might have missed this week:
• Here’s Your Passover Miracle: Matzo ice cream unites Ample Hills Creamery with The Matzo Project.
• Crying Purple Rain: The Slope celebrates and mourns music icon Prince.
• Mary’s Bar is closing after five years in the neighborhood.
• Help Scott Stringer fix Brooklyn’s voting problems.
• A mural — at Laundercenter — grows in Brooklyn.
• South Slope Car Service collecting goods for Ecuadorian earthquake victims.
• Construction project threatens to pollute the learning environment at John Jay.
• Avoid 40 years in the desert with this Brooklyn Community Seder Guide.
• Rabbi Andy Bachman claims he was ‘booted’ from Bernie event over Pro-Clinton tweets.
• Sign up to perform at The Make Music New York Festival.
• Welcome to the world, Alexina Rose Levit!
• Woman foils rape attempt in Prospect Park.
• Bicyclist killed by a truck on Sterling Place and 6th Avenue.
• Local Pols seek voter-friendly reforms.
• Junior’s patriarch Walter Rosen passes away at 81.
• Observant passengers helped spot & stop man with gun.
• Here’s your weekly Slope real estate roundup.
• Adoptable animal of the week: Skittles the dog.
• Problems With Your Pet? Dr. Ezat Luba Yomtovian can help (Sponsored).
• Thanks to happn, you can meet people from your neighborhood.
• 7 Reasons to join CAMBA’s Healthy Way 5k & 10k on May 1 (Sponsored).