Just got this note from Melissa Murphy, owner and baker of Park Slope’s Sweet Melissa’s: Hi Louise, I was googling for an event I’m doing at the Brooklyn Public Library, and I came across your Park Slope 100 list for 2007. I had no idea I was on it! Thank you: I am thrilled! These … Continue reading Pie Demo at Brooklyn Public Library by Sweet Melissa
Just got this note from Sweet Melissa, founder of Park Slope’s Sweet Melissa’s: Hi Louise, I was googling for an event I’m doing at the Brooklyn Public Library, and I cam across your Park Slope 100 list for 2007. I had no idea I was on it! Thank you, I am thrilled! These mentions from … Continue reading Sunday: Sweet Melissa Pie Baking Demo at Brooklyn Library
That’s Toby Pannone, with his dad Stephen on the right and his brother on the left, as the G train. You can read all about Toby on this blog. Toby and his family made last year’s Park Slope 100. Suffice it to say, this costume won a big prize at the Halloween costume contest sponsored … Continue reading Toby Pannone and Family at the Halloween Costume Contest
Go to Brownstoner today to see the top 10. I was sorry to hear that I am not a notable blogger in his media section. Oh well. I was the one who started this with the Park Slope 100. Not to mention that I was one of the first Brooklyn place bloggers back in 2004. … Continue reading And the Top Ten Most Influential in Real Estate and Development Are…
Check this out: Park filmmaker Sue Kramer, who directed Grey Matters and is also one of the Park Slope 100 has something to share with OTBKB readers. A video called: You Vote. Presently, I have an even more exciting project! I have conceived and directed a video called YOU VOTE, www.youvotevideo.org —I think of it … Continue reading Park Slope Filmmaker Makes Youvotevideo.org With Loads of Celebs
You know I like lists (Park Slope 100, anyone?). So when I saw the article this week’s 40th anniversary issue of New York Magazine, What Matters Most, who’s the most important New Yorker of the last 40 years, I was all over it. And you just know I had to give it a go. Hey … Continue reading Ten New Yorkers Who Matter
Hillary, the blue-haired cashier at Shawn’s Liquors and one of the Park Slope 100 from 2006, is also a dedicated and nurturing cat rescuer; she fosters something like twenty cats. The following is about a fundraising event for the group she fosters for. The Broadway Comedy Club at 318 West 53rd Street (between 8th and … Continue reading Benefit for Kensington Kitties: Comedy Event
The Community Bookstore’s Modernist Book Club continues even though Josh, its beloved leader (and one of the Park Slope 100) has moved on to greener pastures (or something). Yesterday’s email said: Cool off with The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West in the air conditioned comfort of The Community Bookstore this Wednesday, July 23rd at 7:30 … Continue reading Modernist Book Club Meets July 23rd at the Community Bookstore
According to the New York Times, there has been a pate of muggings in recent months on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuy. The Times reports that “people walking or biking alone have been attacked with punches, kicks — and in one case, a baseball bat — and then had their cellphones or purses … Continue reading Rise in Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy Muggings Reported
So Josh Milstein, one of the Park Slope 100, for his dedication to (and interesting emails about) the The Modernist Book Club has apparently moved away from Park Slope. I assume he’s gone off to grad school somewhere. If anyone knows, let me know. Seems that the group, which meets at the Community Bookstore every … Continue reading July 23: Modernist Book Club Continues
California Taqueria, the always dependable burrito place on Seventh Avenue near Berkeley, has re-designed the right storefront of the restaurant and christened it Le Taq. Like their other branch, Rachel’s, on Fifth Avenue, they put in an attractive bar, which will serve something like 100 varieties of tequila; there are tables in the back with … Continue reading La Taq on Seventh Avenue
Another show at Brooklyn Artists Gym by Cordula Volkening, the artist who was diagnosed wth advanced brain cancer last year. The BAG gallery is located at 168 7th Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenue in the Park Slope/Gowanus area. Volkening was on the Park Slope 100 in 2007 and is a real hero in my … Continue reading Cordula Volkening Paints Despite Brain Cancer: Show June 13-19
All day Saturday and Sunday May 31 and June 1, Spoke the Hub sponsors the Local Produce Festival. Elise Long, one of the Park Slope 100 and founder of Spoke the Hub is the force behind this annual festival. Check it out. Saturday, May 31 EVENTS ALONG UNION STREET BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVENUES, PARK … Continue reading 14th Annual Local Produce Festival in Park Slope
Hey, that article by freelance journalist Lynn Harris, who interviewed many of us two months ago for an article about Why People Hate Park Slope originally intended for New York Magazine, is in the Style section of the Times this Sunday. Props to Harris: she did email to say that the piece would probably be … Continue reading Hating Park Slope: In the New York Times This Sunday
First you give us a vacation from alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules. Now we get a new public charter middle school. What is going on? Park Slopers have really won the lottery this week. Big news. Big news for parents in District 15: There’s a new public charter school called Brooklyn Prospect will open in September 2009. … Continue reading A Brand New Charter Middle School in Park Slope
Writer Dorree Shafrir at the New York Observer did it; she put together the Brooklyn Literary 100. Like the Park Slope 100, it’s sure to get slammed. Lists are silly and fun. Neighborhood by neighborhood, she did the who’s who of the Brooklyn literati. Interestingly, it’s not just authors but agents, editors and others. And … Continue reading Brooklyn Literary 100: The New York Observer
This Saturday March 29: The Yossi Piamenta Band plays at the Jewish Music Cafe. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. Reserve now at the JMC website. Not familiar with the Jewish Music Cafe? Elie Massias, one of the 2007 Park Slope 100, started the Jewish Music Cafe at at 401 9th Street (between 6th and 7th … Continue reading Where Classic Rock Meets Middle Eastern Music: Yossi Piamenta in Park Slope
Brooklyn Based, who is co-hosting a cocktail party with me tonight at Sidecar, got tired of reading about Park Slope hate. So she sked two Park Slopers, Amy Sohn and Grace Bonney, to each name five things about the Slope they love. I already published Amy Sohn’s. Here are Grace Bonney’s. Grace Bonney, editor of … Continue reading More to Love About Park Slope
Hey, Grace and Amy are two of my faves in Park Slope and they’re BOTH on the Park Slope 100. Brooklyn Based asked them to come up with five things to love about the Slope. And I love them for doing it. Here’s Amy Sohn’s. I’ll run Design Sponge’s Grace Bonney tomorrow. And check out … Continue reading 10 Things to Love About Park Slope from Amy Sohn and Grace Bonney
Now that everyone is so jazzed up about the speech he gave yesterday, this is the Park Slope fundraiser for Barack Obama you won’t want to miss at Union Hall: Monday night March 31 at 7 pm. That’s right, Union Hall, our venerable bocce court, cozy drinking spot, venue for spelling bee’s, grammar fests, all … Continue reading Obama Fundraiser at Union Hall on March 31, 7 pm
An OTBKB reader and friend sent me this article, which talks about Heather Johnston, a Park Sloper and food blogger, who was cited on the Park Slope 100. The article is by Erik Engquist And Miriam Kreinin Souccar in Crain’s NY. Conflicts are especially pronounced when someone breaks from a demographic that is aligned … Continue reading Families Feud Over Clinton, Obama: Park Sloper Mentioned
The Hellgate Harmonie, an adventurous and gutsy local performance group, used its citing as one of the 2007 Park Slope 100, to advertise a coming show at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Cool. They will be performing Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana in English at the Brooklyn Lyceum on March 8, 15, 16, and 22, starting at 3:30pm. I … Continue reading Hellgate: 40 Piece Orchestra and a Chorus at the Brooklyn Lyceum
OTBKB friend and fave, Joe Holmes of Joe’s NYC has a new series out called the Work Space Series. Artist Shawn Dulaney who is pictured in the series, sent me the link. Joe, who was selected for the Park Slope 100 in 2006, is a wonderful photographer.
Living on Fifth, the clothing and home goods store on Fifth Avenue, with other outposts on Seventh Avenue (Living on Seventh), Smith Street (Living on Smith) and the South Slope (Lola) is relocating. The landlord at their old location on Fifth between 3rd and 4th Streets stopped heating the store two months ago. He suddenly … Continue reading LIVING ON FIFTH RELOCATING
Here’s somethng new from author Richard Grayson, one of the Park Slope 100. He’s been busy teachng, like, 7 classes at 4 colleges. And he’s on hs way out of town. But he did take the tme to write about ths interestng gathering at Vox Pop. Wednesday Evening at Vox Pop: Publish Yourself & Community … Continue reading COMMUNITY PUBLISHING PARTY AT VOX POP
Over here at OTBKB, we are switching to moderated comments. At the moment, I am not accepting comments as Hepcat makes this change. Comments will return soon. Truthfully, I really enjoy and believe in an unsupervised comments area. It’s usually such fun to see what pops up there, to read what all of you have … Continue reading SWITCHING TO MODERATED COMMENTS
Icky in Brooklyn doesn’t like Smartmom or OTBKB much but he does have a great list on his blog. Sort of the anti-Park Slope 100. It’s called The Windsor Terrace 11, and it’s a great list of Brooklyn bloggers. Read all about it here.
Michele is one of the 2007 Park Slope 100 and a wonderful poet and a blogger. Here’s a poem called CHRISTMAS DREAM by Michele Madigan Somerville Last night I dreamed a skinnySinatra, a red velvet Saint Nickhat upon his head and tux, croonedin my direction as he fingered white BabyGrand keys but maybe he wasn’t … Continue reading CHRISTMAS DREAM: A POEM BY MICHELE MADIGAN SOMERVILLE
Just got this email from Louis Rosen (one of the 2007 Park Slope 100): Just wanted to remind everyone that Capathia Jenkins (also 2007 Park Slope 100) and I opened our brief, two-night stint at the popular new Manhattan nightclub, The Metropolitan Room, last night. We’re glad to report that it’s a terrific room, with … Continue reading LOUIS AND CAPATHIA AT THE MANHATTAN ROOM THIS SUNDAY
Stop in at the Old Stone House on Snowflake night — DECEMBER 13th at 8 p.m and catch some culture with Park Slope treasure (and one of 2007’s Park Slope 100) ROY NATHANSON— jazzy, spoken word poet and novelist JASON WEISS who will read from new novel and "Conversations with Steve Lacy." Brooklyn Reading Works … Continue reading GREAT STOCKING STUFFERS AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE