It’s that time of year again. Every Father’s Day, Seventh Avenue’s tube sock and roasted corn fest fills Seventh Avenue with huge crowds.

Organized by the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce, Seventh Avenue is covered in street vendors, craft merchants, music and food stations.

One of the things I like about Seventh Heaven—and the Fifth Avenue Fair—is that it does manage to convey some of the flavor of those avenues, in addition to the usual street fair fare.

I like to walk the fair early, just as vendors are setting up. By the middle of the day it gets a little zooey. But it is a great place to run into friends and neighbors and people you haven’t seen in a while.

The Community Bookstore is organizing a Scavenger Hunt for the second year in a row. That promises to be fun as the bookstore is very good at that sort of thing. Look for information at the Community Bookstore (on 7th Avenue betwen Carroll Street and Garfield).