Cinco de Mayo. Trump and Park Slope’s Food Pantries. Ginger’s Answer to Hooters. Marc Maron & Molière in the Park.
Plus: The People’s Ball and The Debt Gala tonight.
Welcome to the Sunday AM edition of the Park Slope Walk. We want to give you some reading you can lean back with, and we want to help you make some plans for the week.
Get Involved
🌼🌸Street Tree Care Basics: How To Green Your Block @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Tuesday: “Street trees do so much to improve our environment but often receive little care. Learn best practices to spruce up your tree beds while improving the health and resilience of your block’s trees. We’ll also discuss how street tree care can be a great way to motivate your neighbors to participate in the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. Take home a plant to try in your street tree bed! ASL interpreter available upon request; contact community@bbg.orgat least 2 weeks prior to the class date. For more information about BBG's community greening programs, visit bbg.org/community.”(6PM, Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
🤣Ranked Choice: A Comedy Show And Community Organizing Event' on Tuesday @ Littlefield: “The 2025 NYC Mayoral race is heating up as 5 Brooklyn-based comedians compete to win your vote and the key to the city. Come laugh, learn, and organize! With an interactive voting game, special guests and giveaways, this event will be one for the history books. All profits will be donated to Reading Partners NYC.”(8:00 PM, Littlefield)
🌳Spring Spruce Up @ Prospect Park on Wednesday: “Join Prospect Park Alliance this spring to help care for the park before the start of our busy season. From April to early June, adult volunteers will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of projects around the park. These projects include mulching, painting, invasive plant removal and other landscaping tasks.”(10:00 AM, Prospect Park, Free)
Lean Back Reading
Read an excerpt of literature tied to a bookstore or library event this week.
😵‘Memento Mori: Remember You Will Die.’ Morbid Anatomy Founder & Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein’s ruminates on “a practice, object, or artwork created to remind us that we will die, and that our death could come a at any moment.” (Author Q&A Monday @ 12:00 PM, Green-Wood Cemetery)
💍‘My Husband.’ Maud Ventura’s “explores love’s darker alleyways through the eyes of a 40-year-old Frenchwoman who's obsessed with her husband... A modern Emma Bovary aiming her passionate energy toward her husband instead of a lover.”(Book club @ 12:00 PM, Park Slope Library)
🍽‘The Vegetarian.’ “In this excerpt from 2024 Nobel Laureate in Literature Han Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel, a man reels as his wife suddenly decides to give up meat.” (Book club Wednesday @ 7PM, Terrace Books)