There’s a piece in today’s New York Times about the Park Slope’s own Cynthia Wade, the filmmaker who won as Oscar for the film, Freeheld, a documentary about a detective in New Jersey who fought for the right to transfer
her pension to her domestic partner.

BACK at her bare-bones office on the fringe of Park Slope, Ms. Wade is
eating a takeout salad she picked up after teaching her weekly class in
advanced digital cinematography at the New School.
The Oscar, swathed in bubble wrap, accompanied her on the subway and
made the rounds of the classroom. She also took it to her local latte
shop, where one bystander mistook it for a jar of maple syrup. When
informed it was a genuine Oscar, the next question was, “Whose Oscar?”