Are You Slopey? Part II

Two weeks ago, we asked you all to take , and see just how “Slopey” you really are. We’re back with part two of our answers to thw quiz, which we’re parceling out bit by bit. 

If you missed last week’s answers, check them out . Check back next Tuesday for the third installation of our quiz answers.

11. Who was the Brownstone Bride?

In July of 2007, a beautiful woman in a bridal dress was found asleep above the doorway of a brownstone on Fourth Street. The cops were called. Inside her bag was a ring from Tiffany. People still don’t really know whether she was really a jilted bride, a person with bi-polar disorder or a performance artist.

12. Name the toy store that used to be located on Seventh Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.

When I first moved to Park Slope, Al’s Toys was a large toy store on Seventh Avenue between Third and Fourth streets that sold classics like Parker Brothers games, Fisher Price toys, sports equipment, Barbies, rubber balls, yoyo’s, jacks and other classic toys.

13. In what year was the Park Slope Food Coop founded? And for extra credit: Who is the Coop’s General Manager?

The Park Slope Food Coop was founded in 1973 and has since grown to include 15,000 members. It is considered one of the oldest and most active food coops in the United States. As many of you well know, each adult members is required to contribute two hours and 45 minutes of work every four weeks. Only active members may shop at the store, which sells food, produce and home goods at a 21 percent markup (Compared to 50 to100 percent at a supermarket). And for the extra credit: Joe Holtz is the General Manager.

14. What intersection is the birthplace of the beer can and one of the oldest concrete buildings in America?

Third Avenue and Third Street. The New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company building is a New York City landmark and was one of the first precast concrete buildings in the country. It’s currently on the lot where Whole Foods will eventually be built around it. Across the street, is the Old American Can Factory, which was built in 1886, and eventually became the birthplace of beer in a can.

15 .Where in Park Slope did the original Brooklyn Dodgers play?

The Brooklyn Dodgers, originally called the Brooklyn Base Ball Club, a minor league team founded in 1883, played in Washington Park (located at Third Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues). The team used the Old Stone House as their storage facility and clubhouse. A detailed and excellent history of baseball in Park Slope exists at theoldstonehouse.org.

16. Who was Edwin Clarke Litchfield and where did he live?

In 1857, Edwin Clarke Litchfield built a beautiful mansion on a hill near Fourth Street and Prospect Park West on a site that later became part of Prospect Park. Litchfield was a railroad pioneer and real estate developer. As the founder and president of the Brooklyn Improvement Company, he helped develop the Red Hook waterfront and the Gowanus Canal He named the mansion “Grace Hill” after his wife. The house still stands and it is the Brooklyn borough headquarters for the Parks Department. Litchefield lived in the mansion until 1881, when he sold it to the City of New York.

17. What is the name of Rabbi Andy Bachman’s blog?

Water Over Rocks is the blog of Rabbi Andy Bachman, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. In it he writes about Jewish issues and politics, as well as personal essays.

18. In what building did Borough President Marty Markowitz live before he moved to Windsor Terrace?

The BP lived in a rental apartment in an apartment building on the corner of 8th Street and Prospect Park West before moving to his current residence in Windsor Terrace. He and his wife Jamie bought their new home, a two-story, three-bedroom house in Windsor Terrace, for $1.45 million.

19. Name the author and the title of a 2007 book about Park Slope moms.

No, the answer is not Prospect Park West by Amy Sohn. That book was published in 2009. Park Slope writer, Tom Rayfiel, is the author of Parallel Play, a 2007 novel about a Park Slope mom named Eve, who is overwhelmed by the first months of motherhood.

20. Why is there pocket change on a plaque in the chapel at Methodist Hospital?

That pocket change belonged to Stephen Baltz, the little boy who was the only initial survivor of the 1960 airplane crash in Park Slope, which killed all 128 people on the two airplanes and six on the ground. Baltz made it to Methodist Hospital but died of pneumonia the following morning. That change in his pocket was found by his father (who was not on the plane) and placed by him in the chapel’s donation box. An 8-by-14 inch commemorative plaque embossed with four dimes and five nickels hangs in the hospital’s chapel.