Subject: Park Slope

• Who's the Project Runway Winner Dating?

  March 12, 2008

• Beer for Lent

  March 18, 2008

• Eurotrip Opens Next Week (the Restaurant not the Crappy Movie)

  April 10, 2008

• How to Invite Ridicule

  July 8, 2008

• NYC RFD: Damned Kids, Dirt Bikes, and Johns

  September 16, 2008

• Park Slope Stabbing Update

  September 17, 2008

• Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are

  September 19, 2008

• Edible News Roundup

  October 6, 2008

• WFMU Goes Free-Form on McCain; Plus, Palin Hair for Obama!

  October 16, 2008

• Post Claims Dive Bar Expertise, Produces Boring List

  November 19, 2008

• John Hodgman Makes Park Slope Jokes in Park Slope

  December 11, 2008

• Week in Review: A Prevailing Theory That Targeting Women As The Main Consumer/Enjoyer of Hip-Hop Proved the Genre's Biggest Misstep

  December 12, 2008

• Housing Collapse Makes Real Estate More Affordable to Millionaires

  Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope word gets out to this YouTube poster, who is sharing a tiny apartment with two roommates who sleep in bunk beds. Better days are coming, nicxjustice. Hang in there.

  January 2, 2009

• January 22 Opening Report

  The weekend is almost here. Where, oh where will you be eating? Here's the good news about what's actually opening in this economy:Nolita Thai hangout Lovely Day (106 Elizabeth Street) is re-opening after recovering from some fire damage it suffered in October.[Paper]We may have to forgive the pun-tastic name before we can drink there, but a new wine bar called Brook-vin (381 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn) is opening in Park Slope tonight. Bacon-infused bourbon and fruit-soaked vodkas may help us on

  January 22, 2009

• Drama at the Food Coop

  There's drama at the Park Slope Food Coop over a proposal to ban Israeli food products to protest fighting in Gaza. [NY Post]A new study finds that living in a neighborhood with a high concentration of fast food restaurants may increase your risk of stroke by 13 percent.[U.S. News & World Report]An increasing number of New Yorkers are composting food waste in their own (often very small) homes.[NY Times]Hollis Famous Burgers, a burger joint in Queens, is doubling as a hip hop museum.[NY Time

  February 20, 2009

• Banh Mi Inflation Eases, Slightly

  When the new Hanco's opened in Park Slope (350 7th Avenue), it was a bittersweet affair. Yes, there was banh mi to be had, but it wasn't cheap. Sandwiches were $7 a pop, especially galling when they're just $5.25 each at their Boerum location and far cheaper (just $3.50) at the likes of Ba Xuyen. Now, Serious Eats reports that the Hanco's Park Slope has dropped their prices slightly, to $6.50, after customer complaints. While it's nice that they listened, $6.50 is still pretty high for banh mi.&

  March 10, 2009

• Weekend Special: Street Food

  Everyone agrees that knife skills are the most important part of a chef's training -- but who can afford to learn them at culinary schools, where getting your toque can run as high as 40 or 50 thou? Here's an alternative for learning knife skills, spotted in a shop window on Park Slope's Seventh Avenue. This truck, which has been parking itself along East 20th between Broadway and Park Avenue lately, demonstrates the principal: If you're going to lie, lie big.

  March 14, 2009

• The Early Word -- Beer Table Tuesdays

  The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it previously. So it was with great interest that we dropped in at Beer Table in the southern reaches of Park Slope to check out the table d'hote menu currently being mounted by Julie Farias, a chef who p

  March 23, 2009

• Fool's Gold

  December 28, 2004

• Nannypacks

  November 24, 1998

• Beach Blanket Surgery

  July 27, 1999

• Two-Room Apartment in Six-Unit Building

  January 18, 2000

• Forget the Subway, You can Get Laid at the Park Slope Food Co-Op

  December 20, 2007

• One-Room Apartment Over Plumbing Store

  May 22, 2001

• Railroad Apartment in Tenement

  September 4, 2001

• Schnitzel Watch

  August 13, 2002

• Drugstore Dining

  September 17, 2002

• Music in Brooklyn

  December 30, 2003

• Heartbreak Hotel

  March 23, 2004

• Lazy Flesh of the Ray

  October 26, 2004

• Where to Flee in Park Slope When the Barbarians Invade

  November 23, 2004

• Close-Up on Park Slope

  February 1, 2005

• Willy Wonka Goes Sideways: A Decadent Bar Sets the Standard

  March 29, 2005

• The Scene in Park Slope

  December 20, 2005

• Great Outdoors

  September 12, 2006

• Where NYC Writers Like to Drink

  January 15, 2008

• PRISON PALS

  March 4, 2009

• Park Slope Gets Serious at Bussaco

  A new eatery brings lavishly good food to the neighborhood

  November 26, 2008

• Things We Hate--Bread Confusion

  "Would you like some bread?" the server asked my friend, who was eating at Get Fresh in Park Slope, Brooklyn. "Sure," my friend replied. Later, she discovered an $8 charge for a basket of bread on her check. Offering great bread for a small extra charge is a new notion making the rounds lately. Not a bad idea--after all some people don't want bread anyway--but you've got to be up front about it. The convention is that bread is free, and if you'd like to do something different, you have to say

  June 2, 2009

• A Wine Bar Built in New Orleans and Raised in Brooklyn

  January 17, 2006

• Close-Up on Gowanus

  February 18, 2003

• The Early Word--Park Slope's Mee Thai

  Mediocre Thai places breed like bunnies in and around Park Slope, so the opening last June of Mee Thai on Fifth Avenue went mostly unremarked. But I stopped in for lunch today just for the hell of it, and it turned out that the food is much better than expected--making it a solid neighborhood Thai spot (a good thing to have), but not a destination by any stretch. This papaya salad looks like it went to the Top Chef School of Cooking, coaxed into a precarious, teetering tower of papaya, peanut

  April 14, 2009

• A Brooklyn Tommy Revival Is No Magic Journey

  May 20, 2009

• Undercover Homemade Channa Masala at a Health Food Shop

  Balance Life is a small, family-owned health food store/grocery in South Park Slope. The expensive groceries are not the reason to go here--instead, find a little hand-lettered sign on the refrigerator that reads "homemade Indian food." The exceedingly nice woman who owns the store comes from the Pakistani side of the Punjab, and she whips up basic Punjabi staples like channa masala, daal makhani, and saag aloo, and sells generous portions for $2.50. Today, I bought the channa masala, expecting

  May 22, 2009

• News From Brooklyn Heights

  Brooklyn Heights Blog attended last night's Community Board 2 meeting and reports on some goings-on in the neighborhood, which is becoming an increasingly popular dining destination: Park Slope's Tea Lounge was approved for a liquor license for its latest location on Clark Street, while the new incarnation of Armando's and a new Japanese restaurant also earned board approval for facade work.

  July 28, 2009

• "Irate" Ice Cream Mom Knows a Few Things About Sugar Pushing Herself

  BotheredByBees/flickrThe mighty deep-fried Mars Bar​Yesterday's Times piece on the Mister Softee - Angry Mom turf war featured a few choice quotes from Vicki Sell, a Park Slope mom who described herself as "irate" over the ice cream man's presence in her 3-year-old daughter's otherwise bucolic playground. She blamed him for the "inconsolable meltdown" her kid had after being told she couldn't have a cone (Just. Say. No.), saying, "...it's really predatory for them -- two of them -- to be r

  August 20, 2009

• When Children and Fine Dining Collide

  mdanys/flickr​Because nothing says "child-friendly" like Italian beer: Now that summer's over, Provini has apparently become the latest Park Slope restaurant to fall victim to the Bugaboo mafia. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has an angry dispatch from the former "peaceful haven for grown-ups who have enough of a life to leave their kids at home when they want a dinner at what is clearly an adults-only kind of place," complete with shattered glassware and grimacing waitstaff.

  September 16, 2009

• Open & Closed: Say Hello to Abe & Arthur's; Goodbye to T Thai

  Piquant has opened in the bi-level space that once occupied Mitchell's. Texas-born David Sharp will serve up takes on Southwestern favorites like flautas stuffed with slow-roasted brisket, corn tamales with duck confit, and ancho molasses barbecue pulled pork sliders. [Thrillist] Abe & Arthur's has set up shop in a two-floor Meatpacking District space. Expect meatballs on Franklin Becker's menu, but also fancier fare, like scallops with foie gras. [TONY] Tanuki Tavern is a new homestyle Japane

  October 9, 2009

• Pix From Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope, Brooklyn

  ​ ​(Top) The white neon glow of Bark's sign fries the faces of commuters emerging from the 2 and 3; (Left) Looking down the steely bore of Bark's excellent thick chocolate malt. This week, Counter Culture slides into Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope, Brooklyn on a streak of yellow mustard, and finds the hot dogs simple, expensive, and often excellent. Following are pictures of some of the menu items that I found wonderful--and not so wonderful. The cheap glasses of Six Point ales probab

  October 28, 2009

• 1 Dead, 1 Injured in G Train Incident; Delays Reported (Updated)

  ​That big delay on the F line this morning has been explained: not one but two people were injured -- one fatally, one critically -- by a northbound G train at the Seventh Avenue station in Park Slope around 7:45 a.m. The incident rerouted the F to the D line, and also cocked up G train service. The tracks are allegedly clear now with "residual delays." No further explanation of the incident yet, but suicide attempts don't usually injure two people. More as it develops. Update: Origin

  November 19, 2009