Park Slope

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The Middle-Of-Fourth-Avenue … or more affectionately, MoFo… is a rapidly gentrifying strip just west of Park Slope and east of Gowanus. It is truly a strange and marvelous neighborhood with bars snotty and leering enough to anger the baby-stroller set yet just bourgeois enough to anger any true alcoholics from saddling up every night. More»

A look at Crown, a peek inside Theater Bar, the ongoing saga involving the failure of Water Taxi Beach,and a goodbye to Superdive. Plus a smackdown on orgies and burlesque girls and an emergence of cheap vodka, hipsterz doin drugz, and robotenders. What? Oh yeah. More»

The new club Prime Six at Flatbush and Sixth in Brooklyn has neighbors up in arms: the venue may (gasp!) play rap music. Naturally, Park Slopers have been circulating a petition. The details, hysterical and sickening, serve as a prescient glance of the imminent neighborhood tension. More»

Valentine's Day can be a complicated holiday for lesbians. From lady dance parties, sex shop visits, and intimate dinners, here are nine steps to doing it right. More»

Bundle.com, a web site that tracks how and where money is spent, has pulled together data on how much people in the U.S. spend on personal care. The average U.S. household spends $60 a month, while the average household in Austin, Texas spends $143 a month, the highest, on personal care. The site has broken down New York to individual neighborhoods and what it discovered is actually kind of surprising. More»

In the winter doldrums, you may want to enhance your street cred by stealing a few pages from the playbooks of the indie scene. From feline inspired hair to cat-toting haute couture, here's how to stay hip among the independent set. More»

The plans for the new 11-story Hotel Grand Prospect have, of late, garnered resounding approval from those who hope to have a rooftop hot-spot in Park Slope. But for a neighborhood that uses civic contention as a dear past time, how has support been so unanimous? More»

The Prospect Avenue banquet hall is planning a 150-room, 11-story hotel called the Hotel Grand Prospect. So how fast can you wheel your tandem stroller there to check in? More»

A doctor and his med school g-funk (a former pole dancer) led a prescription-drug cartel for Park Slope yuppies--tandem strollers be damned! More»

Last week stalwart New York journalist Pete Hamill won the prestigious Louis Auchincloss Prize, presented by the Museum of the City of New York. Today he answered our questions pertaining to the writing life and this fair city. More»

  • Times Square Burger King Whopper Bar holding the beer for now. [CityRoom]
  • America hasn't been this drunk in 25 years. [Gallup]
  • The East Village, Bar None have grown on Kieran Culkin. [NYT]
  • Drunk lady barges into Park Slope murder scene. [RunninScared]
  • Organic fad ruins downtown diner. [Eater]