Park Slope Reader

The Archives : Issue 22

Features

Vanderbilt Av

by Nathaniel Altman

Our profile on the the very happening Vanderbilt Avenue, from the plaza to the yards.

Re-Born in Brooklyn

by Alexaandra Como Saghir

A look at Stanley Alpert, whose new memoir The Birthday Party, recounts his wild tale of being kidnapped and held right here in Brooklyn and the impact this event had on his life.

Amateurs: Into The Kitchen

by Shani Friedman

An interview with Park Slope food blogger, Adam Roberts, who talks of cooking, shopping, living, and his new book Amateur Gourmet - How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop like a Pro (Almost).

Columns

Community

by Elizabeth Ruksznis

Two Brooklyn Buddies launch The Brownstone Buddies.

Beinhart

by Larry Beinhart

The Price of Secrets. How our culture of secrecy makes us less safe.

Autumn Reading

by Catherine Bohne

Fall recommendations reviewed for us by the owner of the Community Bookstore, The End of the Alphabet, Written Lives and The Book Thief.

Dining In The Slope

by Christy Vaughan

Our yummy fall choices: Chiles & Chocolate and Moim.
*Plus, check out restaurants in Slope in our Dining Guide

The New Wave 22

by Lisa Dowda

Keeping it Close to Home. We look at the continuing big wave of new businesses opening their doors in the Slope.

Fresh

by Rachel Sutherland

Don’t shed tears for the end of the summer. Autumn brings us a whole new range of fresh produce to play with.

Dispatches From Babyville

by Nicole Caccavo Kear

Surviving Santaland. There is no place like New York City at Christmas time, however, perhaps you should think twice about visiting Santa at Macy’s.

Park Slope Literary Guide

by Christine Leahy

We talk with Barnes and Noble Community Relations Manager Samantha Gaerlan, and the Slope’s literary happenings this Fall.

The Intersloper

by Sterling Montgomery

A completely unqualified, nosy, know-it-all interloper answers readers’ questions and gives advice, unsolicited or otherwise!

Thy Transient Manufactories

Edited by Colin Cheney

How to account for the transfigured, the unrecoverable? This issue we give you two carefully crafted instruments to plumb this question. The Park Slope Reader Poetry Page.