Here’s Park Slope, an excellent hyper-local blog in Park Slope, has been in existence since 2009. Dan Meyers, who runs the blog, has been doing some real shoe leather reporting about restaurants, stores, architecture, and Park Slope history. He posts frequently and has an impressive weekly editorial schedule:
Tuesday: Business of the Week
Thursday: Then & Now
Know Your Bartender
Friday: Foodporn
Every Day: News and Observations
Here he is on Aunt Suzies, today’s restaurant of the week:
When Brooklyn native Irene LoRe decided to open up a restaurant on Fifth Avenue in the late 1980s, gentrification was still years off. Bodegas and dollar stores dominated the avenue, and if you wanted a decent meal your best bet was to head up to Seventh. Enter Irene: named after her mother, Aunt Suzie’s was the family friendly, inexpensive local place that neighborhood folks had been waiting for…
Here he is on one of my favorite houses in the South Slope.
As you venture further south in Park Slope, the uniform brownstones of the North Slope side streets give way to a hodgepodge of brick townhouses and vinyl- and wood-sided buildings. The latter houses vary between run-of-the-mill and completely outlandish, and stumbling upon one of the crazier ones can make you stop dead in your tracks…
The blog’s name, I assume, is an homage to E.B. White’s great book, Here is New York, a tribute to New York City in all its wonder, chaos and complexity.
At Here’s Park Slope, Meyers brings Park Slope to life and seems to be an all seeing, all knowing member of the community, who takes the time to tell us what he sees. Thanks, Dan.