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Kim Maier 2013

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Meet Kim Maier, Park Slope Neighbor & Executive Director Of The Old Stone House

We met with Kim Maier on a crisp morning for a cup of coffee from Cafe Martin, her favorite spot across the park that is home to one of three Historic House Trust buildings in Brooklyn — The Old Stone House. Built, it’s the reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, which played an important role in

A. Dean Bell

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Local Filmmaker A. Dean Bell To Screen ‘What Alice Found’ At The Park Slope Food Coop

You may recognize neighbor A. Dean Bell from your child’s school or baseball team, or as the person who helped change your shift when you called the Park Slope Food Coop recently. But later this week you’ll have a chance to see some of what he does outside of his time in the neighborhood, when

(crop) via Robert Lopez on Twitter

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Congrats To Our Local Oscar Winners!

A huge congratulations to Park Slope’s own Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who took home the Oscar for Best Original Song at Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards! They won for Let It Go, the song they wrote for the animated movie Frozen, which they’ve said was inspired by a walk through Prospect Park. That makes Bobby the 12th

Frozen, via FB

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Songwriting Neighbors Discuss Prospect Park’s Influence On Oscar-Nominated ‘Frozen’ Tune

We’ll be rooting for neighbors Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez this Sunday, when Let It Go, the song they wrote for the animated movie Frozen, is up for an Oscar for Best Song. They recently went out to Prospect Park with the New York Times to discuss how the park was a big inspiration. “We would

William De Filippis and Erica Pratico of Brooklyn Bean

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Meet The Neighbors: William De Filippis And Erica Pratico Of Brooklyn Bean

If you visit Park Slope’s Down To Earth Farmers Market on 5th Ave and 4th Street on Sundays, you may recognize William De Filippis and Erica Pratico, the founders of Brooklyn Bean. The Brooklyn-based duo are always ready to offer up their fresh vegetarian hot soup of the day, often topped other products available at the market,

Albert Cabbad, via Community Board 6

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Park Slope Mourns The Passing Of Albert Cabbad

Park Slope lost a longtime advocate for small businesses when Albert Cabbad passed away on February 18, 2014. A Syrian native who made his way to New York City via Latin America — becoming fluent in Spanish there may have been just one of the qualities that helped him be a unifying figure in our

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Suzanna Schumacher’s ‘The Sidekick Series’ Tells Animal Adoption Tales

Ever wonder what happens to shelter animals after they’re lucky enough to find a loving, adoptive home? Suzanna Schumacher, a neighbor who has two adopted dogs of her own, recently started a new project called The Sidekick Series to tell some of the stories of how homeless pets find their owners, and what their life in NYC is like now.

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Park Slope Filmmaker Introduces Us To The Roving Typist

In the internet age, a picture can still be worth a thousand words — unfortunately, sometimes those words are hateful comments. But when the right person takes a look at the picture, they can help tell the story in a new way. That’s how the new short film, The Roving Typist, came to be. When

Love Your Block, Citizens Committee for New York City via FB

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Love Your Block? Apply For A Grant To Help It!

Does your area have a project that needs some love — maybe a vacant lot that needs cleaning up, a street that needs more trees planted, walls that need graffiti removed? Show your love for your block by applying for a $1,000 grant to transform and beautify it. The Love Your Block Grant from the

Keith Williams

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Meet The Neighbors: Keith Williams Of The Weekly Nabe

“The only way to get better at something is to go out and do it,” says Keith Williams, the Park Slope local behind The Weekly Nabe, a website where, among other things, he chronicles his research of and visits to each of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods. In fact, that theory is part of the reason he started the

Amaro Spirits & Wine Coming Soon to 272 5th Ave

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Park Slope Local To Open Amaro Spirits & Wine On 5th Avenue

Steve Fromhart, a Park Slope resident for the past decade, has a love of all things Italian — particularly when it comes to liquors. In part, it’s his fascination with herb-based digestifs and aperitifs that inspired him to create Amaro Spirits & Wine, a new shop coming to 272 5th Avenue in the former Lucia space. While he’s

Sammy Cohen-Eckstein Memorial via ckoh on Instagram

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Woman Tries To Take Down Sammy Cohen-Eckstein Memorial

Soon after 12-year-old Sammy Cohen-Eckstein was hit and killed by a van near his home on Prospect Park West in October, a memorial of signs, stuffed animals, and flowers was arranged nearby at the 3rd Street entrance of Prospect Park. While his family, friends, and the community still grieve, apparently one woman decided that it

Zen Dog: Alexis & Riis

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Alexis Toriello Of Zen Dog Talks Training, Communication & The Best Pizza In Town

Alexis Toriello knows about dogs and international conflict resolution in equal measure. Though the career she was in previously didn’t lead directly into our Park Slope neighbor’s current life as a dog trainer, Alexis says there’s at least one thing the two fields have in common: communication. In that spirit, we were pleased to speak

Ian Olasov

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Park Slope Native Ian Olasov Is Going To Make You Think At A New Library Lecture Series

A new discussion series called the Brooklyn Public Philosophers (BKPP) is meeting monthly at the Central Library, and Park Slope native Ian Olasov is the big thinker behind it. Currently residing in Ditmas Park, he’s a philosophy professor who has organized this forum for philosophers working in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience. If it sounds like it

Rynn Berry via Veggie Pride Parade NYC on Flickr

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Rynn Berry, Jogger Who Collapsed In Prospect Park, Has Died

We’re sad to hear that Rynn Berry, the 68-year-old man who collapsed while jogging in Prospect Park on New Year’s Eve, passed away not long after being identified by his half-brother following a wide-reaching effort to figure out who he was. A health-conscious man who lived in Prospect Heights, he was known for books on