Monday, May 21, 2012
Our picks for great events in the neighborhood.
Monday Come to the The Rock Shop for NYC PopFest 2012: Burning Hearts / Sleuth / Orca Team / Outerhope. Tuesday It’s story time at The Bell House with The Story Collider: IAMSCIENCE. This month, the Story Collider celebrates two years of personal stories about science. Wednesday Union Hall is hosting a great time that will make you want to sing in "Purple Rain": Secret Formula Presents: The Prince Sing-Along. There will be contests inspired by the man himself including a Prince costume contest and a “Sexy Dance Off” for prizes including free drinks and tickets to upcoming shows. Thursday The Brooklyn Museum is having a film screening of the "The Triptych." Directed by Terrance Nance, this short-film series highlights the work of artists …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Seventy-five food vendors are competing for space in your stomach. What's your plan?
The Great GoogaMooga boasts 75 food vendors, but alas, you boast only one stomach. The real estate therein is more valuable than a Madison Avenue penthouse overlooking Central Park: You have, at most, the space only for a few culinary creations, and you want to choose wisely. With that in mind, we asked a few people to explain to us their GoogaMooga consumption strategy. Click on the photos above and read the captions to learn about the various battle plans employed in the Great GoogaMooga War, and add your own in the comments below
Maybe the world isn't full of money-hungry scalpers after all.
Though we've seen plenty of disheartening instances of desperate GoogaMooga-goers forking over cold, hard cash for tickets to the ostensibly free food and music festival held in Prospect Park this weekend, we also encountered the occasional uplifting glimmer of humanity. (Read on for more about that. For more tales of profit-mongering, check out some of these audacious Craigslist posts.) Drew Nelson, 32, was planted outside the festival's Prospect Park West entrance around noon on Saturday, wielding a cardboard sign and beseeching his fellow man for help. Nelson, however, was not your standard subway beggar: All he wanted was a ticket. "I heard about it yesterday," he said of the festival. "I checked Craigslist, and they were selling …
What happened this week on Park Slope Patch.
It was another week of exciting developments and happenings in Park Slope. Here's our roundup of our biggest neighborhood headlines. On Monday, we reported on the progress of the pedestrian islands being installed by the DOT near the Prospect Park West bike lane. The pedestrian islands are meant to help make crossing Prospect Park West and the bike lane safer. On Tuesday, we reported how J.J. Byrne Playground on Fifth Avenue re-opened after a year of being closed. We also ran our Police Blotter supplied by the NYPD’s 78th precinct. On Wednesday, we reported that an “‘Overwhelming Number of Park Slope Nannies Do Not Get Paid Overtime’” after speaking with the executive director of Domestic Workers United. According to a survey by Park …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The inaugural food and music festival opened its gates to ticket holders Saturday morning.
After months of anticipation, announcements and scrambling to get tickets, The Great GoogaMooga food and music festival opened its gates on Saturday morning in the Nethermead of Prospect Park. The smell of cotton candy wafted through the air as vendors were still getting set up, but the early word is that this looks to be a very colorful, gluttonous event. A gigantic tiered cake at the entrance is expected to explode at some point throughout the day. Meanwhile, in the Hammageddon area celebrating swine, a gigantic pig-shaped oven was getting fired up to roast pork and promises to shoot flames from tip to tail. Patch will continue to upload photos of the festivities to this gallery throughout the day. Feel free to share your own and tell …
Born in February, the trio of little ones were released into the Discovery Trail exhibit in early May and are already learning to swim.
A visitor favorite on the Discovery Trail at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo has just increased its appeal threefold. The North American river otters have a trio of pups now on exhibit and already, they're charming everyone with their antics. When the zoo’s animal care staff suspected 2-year-old Dixie was pregnant, Dixie and Oogie’s night house was modified to allow her to create a nesting area in preparation for the birth. On Feb. 11, keepers noted the tiny squeaks of the newborn otter pups. To protect the pups and make sure Dixie felt completely secure and not exposed to unnecessary stress, keepers kept them in their den while the father, Oogie, had the run of the exhibit. Like all otter pups, Dixie’s were born blind…
On Sunday, May 20, the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District will host a street fair with music, antique cars, arts and crafts, jewelry and great food on Fifth Avenue between Sterling Place to 12th Street from 12 to 6 p.m.
Get ready for a real Brooklyn-style street fair: The Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair on Sunday, May 20 from 12 to 6 p.m. The Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District will sponsor the fair, like it has every year for the past 25 years. There will be music, over 100 crafters, jewelers, merchants and food. “Our fair is not just about sausage and peppers and tube socks, it’s a real neighborhood event. We have record numbers of our own merchants and restaurants participating—we’ll have high value food,” said Irene LoRe, the executive director of the Fifth Avenue BID, explaining that restaurants like Stone Park Café and Blue Ribbon will be serving food along the street. “It’s going to be really a fabulous day.” There will be three stages for …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Park Slope and other Brooklyn students gearing up for an SAT makeup exam on Saturday, after their May 5 scores were invalidated, received a last-minute notice that the exam is postponed until June 16.
The Brooklyn SAT nightmare, where almost 200 students’ test scores were invalidated after a surprise inspection of the testing site and affected some students from The Berkeley Carroll School, is not over. The makeup exam at Abraham Lincoln High School scheduled for Saturday has been postponed. At 2 p.m. on Friday, the head of Packer Collegiate Institute received a call from College Board, the company that is in charge of the SAT, stating that the retake exam is cancelled and needs to be rescheduled because of the Brooklyn Half-Marathon. Almost 200 students who took the SAT exam on May 5 at Packer, a private school in Brooklyn Heights where some Berkeley Carroll School students took the test, were told that their scores were invalidated …
The Great GoogaMooga is almost here, and evidence of its arrival is splashed across Prospect Park. We snapped some photos as stages, booths and an incredible looking contraption called "Hamageddon" began to appear this afternoon. Feel free to add your own as well.
If you're going to the Great GoogaMooga or trying to avoid it, make sure to check out the map which spells out which locations in Prospect Park that will be closed this weekend.
Prospect Park is always popular during the weekends, but with the Great GoogaMooga moving in for this Saturday and Sunday you're going to want to know where to go, if you're going, and what sections to avoid, if you're not. The Prospect Park Alliance has created a handy map depicting the portion of the park that will be closed for the Great GoogaMooga, the food, drink and music mega-spectacle which is taking place this weekend. The red line on the map above illustrates the festival's borders. The Nethermead, the Boathouse and the Lullwater trail will be closed off for the event. Runners will also be in the park this weekend for the Brooklyn Half-Marathon, which will begin near the Brooklyn Museum, loop around Grand Army Plaza, head down …
Kourtney
10:58 am on Monday, May 21, 2012
Googa Mooga was so much fun on Saturday! I'm happy I remembered the sunscreen. It was nice that they let us bring in water so my kids could stay hydrated in that heat! Overall, great event. more ›