NPark Slope, Brooklyn
Invest in Kos Kaffe on Smallknot! This coffee shop in the old Ozzie’s space on 5th Avenue run by husband and wife team Sarah and Allon is raising $4,500 from the community to make it a more comfortable space for all to enjoy.  Invest as little as $10 and get free coffee, private dinners, coffee roasting lessons and more, while putting your money to work in Park Slope.
www.smallknot.com/koskaffe 

Invest in Kos Kaffe on Smallknot! This coffee shop in the old Ozzie’s space on 5th Avenue run by husband and wife team Sarah and Allon is raising $4,500 from the community to make it a more comfortable space for all to enjoy.  Invest as little as $10 and get free coffee, private dinners, coffee roasting lessons and more, while putting your money to work in Park Slope.

www.smallknot.com/koskaffe 

  6PM, May 17 2012
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emlocke:

In Brooklyn Brownstone, Future President Found a Home on the Top Floor - NYTimes.comBy James Barron and Peter Baker; Photo © Michael Nagle for The New York TimesMay 2, 2012 

The fact that Mr. Obama and his girlfriend at the time lived on the top floor in the mid-1980s was news on Second Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the 109-year-old house is one in a handsome line of homes stretching toward Eighth Avenue … Roscoe Robinson, who now shares the top floor of the house with his brother, had not heard about it until a reporter rang the doorbell and showed him a printout of the excerpt.
“You’re kidding,” Mr. Robinson, 21, said.
The revelation … would add to Prospect Park’s claim that a future president used to run there.

emlocke:

In Brooklyn Brownstone, Future President Found a Home on the Top Floor - NYTimes.com
By James Barron and Peter Baker; Photo © Michael Nagle for The New York Times
May 2, 2012 

The fact that Mr. Obama and his girlfriend at the time lived on the top floor in the mid-1980s was news on Second Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the 109-year-old house is one in a handsome line of homes stretching toward Eighth Avenue … Roscoe Robinson, who now shares the top floor of the house with his brother, had not heard about it until a reporter rang the doorbell and showed him a printout of the excerpt.

“You’re kidding,” Mr. Robinson, 21, said.

The revelation … would add to Prospect Park’s claim that a future president used to run there.

  9AM, May 8 2012
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We will not be serving bull$@t eggs benedict or pancakes,
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  9AM, Apr 10 2012
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Members of the Park Slope Food Coop will decide whether or not to put a controversial ban on Israeli products to a coop-wide referendum at tonight’s general meeting.

They will not be voting on whether to join the Israel boycott itself. If a referendum is approved, all 16,000 Coop members will then finally decide whether to enact the boycott. If rejected, it will bring the issue to a halt, for now.

“The Coop recognizes that its member-owners stand on both sides of the debate over the [boycott] movement, reflecting the diversity of the Coop membership that we value deeply,” the Coop said on their website. “Furthermore, we know that groups of members have organized themselves to promote and to oppose a referendum to decide if the Coop will be boycotting Israeli products. The Coop functions as a democracy–an intrinsic principle of a cooperative–and we hope our members exercise their responsibilities as member-owners thoughtfully and seriously.”

Only active members of the coop with photo ID will be allowed in to the meeting, which takes place at 7 p.m. tonight at Brooklyn Tech High School.

Proponents say the ban is a protest against what they see as anoccupation of Palestinian territories. Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted it.

“Israel is one of the few friends that America has that is dependable and represents everything that America stands for,” Bloomberg said. “”We should be encouraging Israel to have more business with us and us with them, not discouraging it.”

As for “occupation” as a political subtext for the proposed boycott, Bloomberg doesn’t see it that way.

“I think this has nothing to do with the food, the issue is there are people who want Israel to be torn apart and everybody to be massacred, and America’s not going to let that happen,” Bloomberg said.

According to the New York Times, other city officials have joined with Bloomberg in opposing the boycott. The Times reports that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called the idea “ill conceived” while Public Advocate Bill de Blasio blasted it as “madness.” Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer reportedly called the proposed boycott “an anti-Semitic crusade.”

According to the Coop’s website, the only Israeli products they carry are the Sodastream seltzer maker and replacement cartridges, paprika, couscous, olive pesto or tapenade, vegan marshmallows and organic yellow peppers.

What do you think about this?

  3PM, Mar 27 2012
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I don’t know who Detective Joseph Mayrose Park is named after, but I picture him driving this detectivemobile, which was parked curbside.

I don’t know who Detective Joseph Mayrose Park is named after, but I picture him driving this detectivemobile, which was parked curbside.

  5PM, Mar 4 2012
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Park Slope is still a destination, but there are too many bars and restaurants on Fifth Avenue, we are completely oversaturated. In the 30 blocks of the Fifth Avenue BID there are close to 150 bars and restaurants.
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Irene LoRe, the old owner Aunt Suzie’s, which she closed after more than two decades. Now that Southpaw is closing too, it looks like the recession isn’t killing Fifth Avenue, but it is turning it into a gauntlet of constantly churning foodie destinations.
  11AM, Jan 30 2012
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This just in (courtesy of FIPS)! Talde is opening this weekend and here is their menu. This has been a long time coming for me, since I walk past this place every damn day. Are you looking forward to having this Top Chef call Park Slope home?

This just in (courtesy of FIPS)! Talde is opening this weekend and here is their menu. This has been a long time coming for me, since I walk past this place every damn day. Are you looking forward to having this Top Chef call Park Slope home?

  11AM, Jan 10 2012
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No really you should be outside.

No really you should be outside.

  1PM, Nov 27 2011
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You should be outside. It’s beautiful.

You should be outside. It’s beautiful.

  12PM, Nov 27 2011
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BROOKLYN~the comic!
www.mynameiserich.com

BROOKLYN~the comic!

www.mynameiserich.com

  1PM, Nov 23 2011
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