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Park Slope

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

Mind the GAP, Brooklyn

By Sarah Portlock
Park Slope: What’s it going to be, Brooklyn: A Grand Army Plaza that looks French or one that looks like it’s on the moon? Comments (1).

The leading contenders

By Sarah Portlock
Park Slope: Grand Army Plaza is now filled with lots of pie-in-the-sky (and even a few plaza-in-the-sky) visions for fixing the long-isolated traffic island and reintegrating it into the heart of Brooklyn. You can visit the exhibit, now through Oct. 13, or vote online at vote.reinventinggap.org. Here’s our take on the leading contenders. Comment.

Famous writer robbed of TV!

By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Gloria Naylor, author of “The Women of Brewster Place,” is burglarized. Comment.

The leading contenders

By Sarah Portlock
Park Slope: Grand Army Plaza is now filled with lots of pie-in-the-sky (and even a few plaza-in-the-sky) visions for fixing the long-isolated traffic island and reintegrating it into the heart of Brooklyn. You can visit the exhibit, now through Oct. 13, or vote online at vote.reinventinggap.org. Here’s our take on the leading contenders. Comment.

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008

Fuel for thought! Slopers look to Food Co-op to help solve gas crisis

By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Park Slope: In a style of problem-solving that resonates with many Park Slopers, two green activists says they have the answer to rocketing fuel prices and environmental pollution — they’re forming a cooperative. Comments (3).

This thief is a cad

By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: A thief tries the wrong approach to wooing a woman — so then robs her instead. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Stabbing near John Jay HS

By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Cops arrested a teen on Tuesday, one day after quiet Fifth Street erupted in a violent stabbing that hospitalized another teenager in what several students at nearby John Jay HS said was a gang-related attack. Comment.

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008

Beer bust man fights back!

By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Exclusive: The guy who got the ticket for drinking a beer on his stoop may not be able to fight City Hall, but he is going to burp right in its face! Comments (1).

Slopers flip cookies for Obama; fail to show up at peace rally

By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Park Slope: The two faces of Park Slope were fully on display on Sunday, as hundreds of empty seats showed up for an anti-war rally, but hundreds of dollars were raised at a 14th Street bake sale for presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Comments (1).
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