Earth Day all week. The neighborhood’s worst right turn. Erotic sketching @ Please & watercolors at BBG. James Austin Johnson. Silent Book Club of Death.
Welcome to the Easter/Passover Sunday 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. As always, links to sources are in (parentheses) after each event. Follow our IG for updates as events change.
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🌎🤣’Apoha-Hacalypse: Make Polluters Pay On Earth Day' @ Littlefield on Tuesday: “See comedians of all kinds tackle the greatest challenge of our time and call out the bad guys burning down the livable climate so they can buy a 5th house. From standup to sketch, impressionists to fake TED-talkers, each show features a completely different lineup of outstanding comic talents from New York and beyond, all finding the ha-has in the existential threat of climate crisis.”(7:30 PM, Littlefield)
🎶Open Sound Cocktail Party Fundraiser on Thursday: “Join us for drinks and refreshments to raise funds for Open Sound at this garden cocktail party in Windsor Terrace on April 24th! To avoid fees, we encourage you to bring cash to maximize your impact (but we will also accept online/venmo donations). Open Sound is a weekly music series taking place at Open Source Gallery on Wednesdays in the summer. Formerly called “Quarantine Jams,” the series began in 2020 when indoor spaces were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic”(6:00 PM, 119 East 3rd Street Garden)
🎓🌼🌸How To Green Your Block' @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Thursday: “Ever wondered what it takes to make your block greener? Recruit a few neighbors and head to BBG where our staff, joined by some winning Greenest Block in Brooklyn gardeners, will encourage you to see your block’s potential with fresh eyes. We’ll focus on common challenges, best practices for street tree care, and choosing the right plant for the right place.”(6PM, Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
Lean Back Reading
📕My Park Slope Trauma Was Nearly Forty Years Ago. Then a Journalist Called. An excerpt from Joshua Miele’s new book to sample before his appearance at Community Bookstore this week. (Columbia Journalism Review)
🤖Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan: “When reached for comment by email, Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi told Hell Gate that ChatGPT is a research tool that everyone uses like Google’” [Ed note: After Hell Gate’s scoop, Politico found ChatGPT citations in Cuomo’s public safety plan and his subway safety plan.] (Hell Gate)
♻️NYC Stops Compost Enforcement After Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro Gets Involved: “‘After 12 years of treating composting like a niche program, it took just two weeks of regular operations to hit a record amount of food waste and yard scraps kept out of landfills,’ Acting DSNY Commissioner Javier Lojan told the Post, in a story touting the program's progress on Wednesday. But compost enforcement apparently has one powerful enemy in City Hall: First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.” (Hell Gate)
Sunday Special: The Neighborhood’s Slowest Right Turn, Stuck in Limbo
By Dan Myers
