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Nina’s Wedding
by Marilyn Horan 02/12/2010Neighborhood: Park Slope
If my twenty-year-old sister Janet not been maid of honor, I would not even have been invited to my neighbor Nina Milano’s wedding. Nina was 18, one year younger than I, and her fiancé Larry was just 21 on their wedding day, not that unusual in 1969, when many young men, Larry included, were [...]
To Hell and Back: My Trip to IKEA in Red Hook
by Rob Williams 01/23/2010Neighborhood: Park Slope, Red Hook
I’ve lived in my apartment in Park Slope for about seven months now, yet somehow I’ve entirely neglected getting curtains for the windows in the living room. It never really occurs to me that this is a problem unless I’m home during the afternoon on a sunny day. At night, I like the uncovered windows [...]
My Family’s Fatal Relationship With Public Transportation
by Marilyn Horan 08/22/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
My family has a particular vulnerability, a fatal relationship really, with public transportation. Aunt Aneila, running to catch a bus, was hit and killed by a post office truck on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn long before I was born. “Mowed down like a dog,” my mother used to say. Uncle Donald had a heart attack [...]
The Searchers
by Ava Chin 08/09/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
We weren’t exactly seasoned foragers. I had only been foraging in the city a few months before I met Neil, who lucked into it the Saturday he rode his bicycle in Prospect Park and found our group picking field greens. But we had come into it in the same way—we were both dealing with break-ups [...]
The German Expressionistic Life of My Roommate, With Swastika Table
by Rachel Zuckerman 07/19/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
The second time I met Michele she wore a similar get-up as the first. She showed up at my office to pick up her set of apartment keys wearing a pink and blue Indian floral tank dress layered over green army pants with the fly held together by safety pins and bright orange clogs. Her henna-ed [...]
Air Disaster 1960
by Michael J Toro 10/04/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
Numerous fissures and cracks can be observed on many buildings along the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. This quiet, upscale neighborhood, less than a half-mile north of Prospect Park, goes about its daily business with little notice for defects in a city so rife with fissures, [...]
Out with the Old
by Fran Giuffre 08/21/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
“I probably should have done this ten years ago.” This was the theme that ran through my mind when I replayed the decision to leave my profession and take up teaching at the age of 49. But then getting out of the garment business was no easy feat. I felt like The Godfather’s Michael Corleone [...]
At the Prospect Park Zoo, 1965
by Kenneth P. Nolan 05/25/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
Billy Hederman and Eddie Babicke started the migration. So I applied and with their tepid references, “He’s OK, Bob,” I was hired. I was now an official busboy in the Prospect Park zoo cafeteria. Others from my working class Catholic parish adjacent to the park signed up as well. Mo Maloney was assigned to the carousel [...]
You Look Nice Tonight, That’s All
by Shawn Vandor 05/25/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
A friend told me recently, at a small dinner party at her and her husband’s brownstone, that she’d once been throttled on the subway. The train car, she said, was packed. For balance, she raised both arms into the air and held onto the metal bar above. A man stood behind her, she said, and [...]
The Ghost of Fred Revisited
by Kevin Nolan 03/02/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
Somehow through life’s twists and turns, I’ve come to live in vegan-shoe-wearing Park Slope and own a miniature wirehaired dachshund named, well, er, Pixie. Her full AKC designation is Tiny Tails Pixie Dust. Abridged or unabridged, her name is pure embarrassment, though it’s not my invention. At least I can say she came with her [...]
How I Met My Match With Bedbugs
by Jill Bauerle 02/23/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
There is nothing more terrifying than finding a well-fed bedbug in your bed at 1 a.m. It’s even more of a rude awakening if the source of this bedbug can be traced back to a one-week stand you met through an online dating site. It all began last spring when I turned my attention to a [...]
Off-Leash: Heaven in Brooklyn
by Michele Bowman 02/17/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Park Slope
We had already lived in New York for a year when we discovered the park. A year since my husband and I moved from New Jersey to Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, a year since the most awfully timed disaster of the loss of a family member to brain cancer. That the family member was a [...]
