Gary Gulman. The Battle of Brooklyn. Jazz & Bonsai @ the Botanic Garden. Scandalous 1930’s ladies on film. New romance novels under discussion.
Plus: A 'Sailor Moon Day' party. Joe Pera. Ginger’s Bar’s Sunday Showcase.
Welcome to the Sunday AM edition of the Park Slope Walk. We want to help you make volunteering and other plans for the week, and give you some links to lean back with. The Book Now section and the week’s events below the fold.
Get Involved
🌳Teen Service Series: Green Prospect Park Today @ Prospect Park: “Get your hands dirty, make real change, and level up your community service hours — all while spending your summer outside in Brooklyn’s Backyard! Help remove invasive plants, maintain woodland trails and other forest restoration work to help Prospect Park thrive.”(11:00 AM, Prospect Park, Free)
🌳Sunset Series @ Prospect Park on Tuesday: “Join Prospect Park Alliance for a new weekday evening volunteer opportunity. Make the most of longer days in the warmer months and join the Alliance to get outside and lend a hand at locations throughout Brooklyn’s Backyard. Volunteers will help with invasive plant removal, litter pickup and mulching."(5:00 PM, Prospect Park)
Sunday Reading and Links:
🗳Zohran Mamdani on Why He Won: M”ost of the party and the city’s elite had backed Cuomo, if reluctantly given his personality. The former governor had universal name recognition and a strategy to run a campaign much as campaigns had always been run in this city: Get labor unions and political machines on your side, raise a ton of money to blitz the airwaves and mailboxes with advertisements, secure the editorial boards, then roll out endorsements from party elders. Like many mayoral candidates before him, Cuomo would win by putting together a coalition of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers alongside a smattering of whites — the same blocs that had propelled Eric Adams to a primary victory in 2021. There just simply aren’t enough college-educated liberals to propel one of their own to victory, the thinking went, never mind an avowed socialist, especially at a moment when the city was said to be increasingly Trump-curious thanks to concerns over crime and immigration.” (NY Mag)
☕️Council Member Hanif shares the NYT’s before and after headlines: The Times spent the past year wondering out loud if Hanif would lose and asserting that our City Council election was “defined by Israel and Gaza.” After Hanif won in a landslide, the Council Member posted the Times’ headlines as a trophy. Engaged readers will note that it’s clear from the Times’ photos that newspaper—which eliminated its metro section years ago—hasn’t bothered to send a photographer to cover Hanif anytime recently. (Council Member Hanif’s IG)
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