Park Slope Reader

10/04/2020

NYPD Officers In Riot Gear Disrupt Outdoor Concert In Park Slope, Alarming Residents

NYPD Officers In Riot Gear Disrupt Outdoor Concert In Park Slope, Alarming Residents

"I'll never forget that."

10/02/2020

BE LOCAL! BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY!
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09/29/2020

The Protests Heard Around the World – pt. 1: As Black Lives Matter Protestors Make History, Some Are Fighting to Save A Historic Black Site From Demolition - by Kara Goldfard
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"Following George Floyd’s death this May, thousands of Brooklynites, just like community members from so many cities across the country, gathered."

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09/28/2020

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08/26/2020

People Over Policing: 6 Ways to Reallocate Funds to Better Serve Our Communities
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By providing sustainable, inclusive, and quality resources our city can shift its values and priorities from controlling to serving the people. Here are 6 ways to reallocate funds to better serve our communities. #psreader #belocal #blacklivesmatter

08/24/2020

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08/22/2020

Opinion | We Are Living With Brain Cancer. Here’s How Biden Could Help Us.

Opinion | We Are Living With Brain Cancer. Here’s How Biden Could Help Us.

Like Beau Biden, we have glioblastoma. It doesn’t get the attention it should.

08/20/2020

Join us for the Fall issue!
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08/19/2020

Best of Summer – Summer Reader (2018) - by Anna Storm
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"Whether you’re looking for a fun beach read or a serious time that’ll keep your mind sharp in the heat, we’ve got you covered with 10 of summer’s hottest books."
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08/12/2020

Best of Summer – Shirley Chisholm Returns To Brooklyn: A New Take on the American Monument - by Sofia Pipolo
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"Chisholm will once again make history as the first female historical figure to have a monument dedicated to her in Brooklyn."
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08/05/2020

Best of Summer – Our Friends, The Trees: How Trees Make Brooklyn Better (2018) - by Ryan Gellis
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"We take for granted the beauty of these verdant towers, how we come to expect their shade and fail to acknowledge their constant toil as the city’s respiring lungs and filtering kidneys."
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08/03/2020

Stoop Music

Rebecca Cherry on violin, Cody Geil on violin, and Eleanor Norton on cello.
All photos by Jaznina Marie.

08/03/2020

Stoop Music

Stoop Music

Hungarian Dance- Rebecca Cherry on violin, Eleanor Norton on cello, Cody Geil on violin

07/31/2020

Best of Summer: Stoop Music Brooklyn, A safely distanced concert series. - https://mailchi.mp/psreader/best-of-summer-brooklyn-mama-mindfulness-658256

07/30/2020

Best of Summer: Stoop Music Brooklyn, A safely distanced concert series. - https://mailchi.mp/psreader/best-of-summer-brooklyn-mama-mindfulness-658248

07/29/2020

Best of Summer: Brooklyn Mama Mindfulness (2018) - by Anna Kelly
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"Is there such a thing as “planning” when you have a toddler? Is there such a thing as “mindfulness”? I didn’t think so."
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https://mailchi.mp/psreader/best-of-summer-brooklyn-mama-mindfulness

07/28/2020

The Diana Kane Boutique

Ok I admit it - https://mailchi.mp/d05ababc3d61/ok-i-admit-it

07/24/2020

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07/22/2020

Facebook 2020 Boycott: We are joining the Stop Hate for Profit Movement
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Park Slope Reader has made the decision to boycott Facebook/Instagram for the coming weeks and through to the election. We will no longer be running paid advertisements and post boosts on Facebook and Instagram. #stophateforprofit
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07/20/2020

Support Park Slope Reader this Summer!
Park Slope Reader is asking for your support so that we can continue to share important stories from our neighborhood during this pandemic. Your support will allow us to keep our business going and our writers working to inform and celebrate our community as we have for the past 19 years. #psreader #covid19relief #belocal
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07/17/2020

Park Slope Reader has made the decision to boycott Facebook/Instagram for the coming weeks and through to the election. We will no longer be running paid advertisements and post boosts on Facebook and Instagram. #psreader #belocal
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07/15/2020

Park Slope Reader Fall 2020
Be part of our community of advertisers, join us for our Fall 2020 issue! Running over 7,000 print copies from September, October, & November. #psreader #belocal
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07/13/2020

Park Slope Reader Summer 2020 Announcement -
New original articles and some of our favorite pieces from years pasts online each week. Follow us on social media for more updates! #psreader #belocal
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07/09/2020

U.S. Democratic Socialists

Truth.

07/05/2020

Michael Moore

Happy 4th everyone! Hope you had a good day.

Listening to “The Writer’s Almanac” this morning, I learned that Walt Whitman released the first edition of his epic poem, “Leaves of Grass”, 165 years ago today, in 1855. Here is his preface to the poem entitled, "This Is What You Shall Do”, which is every bit as moving as the poem itself:

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."

Good advice.
Onward to a better world, better than the one we left before this pandemic. The slate is being wiped clean, the blood and the tears still being mopped up by “essential workers,” the future literally anything we want it to be now. Why not that which we’ve always wanted? The rich can not stop us, if we say so. Nor can a man with a badge and a gun, made impotent by the will of the people. The Orange One about to get the whoopin’ of a lifetime, if the Dems don’t blow it, as our tsunami overwhelms the ballot box. The Senate, too — ours! We just have to say the word.

07/01/2020

July 6-31: Dancewave Virtual Summer Dance & Arts Camps! -
Sign up for any camp or 4-week series and get a free pass for your household to our weekly Friday Family Dance Party! Also available this July: Virtual Drop-in Classes for ages 3-11 and Dance Workshops for teens. Offered via Zoom. #dancemakeswaves
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06/26/2020

The Diana Kane Boutique

Liberty print mask factory continues, with improvements 🙂 Summer weight fine cotton lawn, washable, adjustable elastic, pocket for additional filter, and oh the prints! Adding more all the time.
I’m obsessed. https://www.dianakane.com/products/liberty-print-mask
#handmadeinbrooklyn #libertyfabricslondon #libertylondon #staysafe #wearamask

06/24/2020

“A List of Times I Didn’t Say Anything” - By Tamar Jacobs
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"When our white neighbor tells us my black husband looks like Barack Obama. Over and over again. She is developing dementia, I think. This is why I don’t say anything, I tell myself. My husband just smiles. "
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06/22/2020

Adem Bunkeddeko: Offering Structural Change to NY-9 - By Julia DePinto
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"Rep. Yvette Clarke. is back in the race, centering his “grassroots, people-powered campaign” on bringing housing security and economic opportunity to the Ninth Congressional District."
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06/19/2020

Declare Juneteenth a National Holiday - by Sofia Pipolo
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"We here at Park Slope Reader are active in showing our support to the Black Lives Matter movement, and to one of it’s many goals in declaring Juneteenth a national holiday. "
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06/17/2020

U.S. Democratic Socialists

06/12/2020

D'mai Urban Spa

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06/11/2020

Slope Survey: Selina Alko - READ NOW ON #PSREADER
"The Slope Survey returns for its 16th installment with local author and artist Selina Alko." https://mailchi.mp/psreader/slope-survey-selina-alko

06/09/2020

Hundreds of NYC school leaders are calling for ‘sharp cuts’ to the NYPD

Hundreds of NYC school leaders are calling for ‘sharp cuts’ to the NYPD

The open letter is notable partly because education department employees are often reluctant to publicly criticize the mayor.

06/09/2020

CLASS SHARINGS JUNE 13TH! JOIN US! - Spoke the Hub Dancing

CLASS SHARINGS JUNE 13TH! JOIN US! - Spoke the Hub Dancing

Please Join Us For STH’s Annual CLASS SHARINGS 2020 Saturday, June 13th @ 1:00pm