Monuments to motherhood. ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘They Live’ and ‘Eraserhead.’ Impasto’s ingredients. Climate Town Hall. College admissions workshop.
Plus: James Austin Johnson and Penn Jillette.
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.
Mother’s Day cheats for people without a physical gift: Tickets to ‘Mean Girls’ Entirely from Memory; or the Moonlight Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery; or the Bonsai Bar event at Gun Hill.
Get Involved
💰🐶Donate to Sean Casey Animal Shelter’s Spring Raffle: “By joining together in this effort, we can collectively extend our reach and change the lives of many more animals in need. Thank you for your compassionate support. ❤🐾❤” (Sean Casey)
🗳Organize for the Primaries with NYC Politics Bootcamp: “Eric Adams won the mayoral primary by just 7,153 votes. Voter turnout was just ~20% citywide. And City Council is even more extreme– those races can be determined by just a few hundred votes. You might think that New York City is so big, so complicated, and so important that it’d be really hard to influence political outcomes here. You might think it takes a ton of money, or it takes a ton of connections. Those things help, but if you can influence just 20 friends to vote a certain way this June, that’s huge.” (NYC Politics 101)
🙋🏽5 Ways to Support Open Streets: “Call or email your City Council rep and tell them you support open streets and more space for people. Believe me, the few people who hate these things and just want to drive and park are making their voices heard.” (Brooklyn Spoke IG)
Lean Back Reading
🦖Inside the MTA-sanctioned dinosaur bodega @ Grand Army Plaza: “If you’ve passed through the Grand Army Plaza subway station lately, you may have noticed a new bodega tucked into a former subway newsstand. But they don’t take cash, they take MasterClaw, and instead of your trusty Mega Millions ticket and a pack of Marlboros, they have a Meteor Millions ticket and some Snarlboros.” (The New York Groove)
📚Brooklyn Barnes & Noble to close for three-month renovation this summer: “‘The renovation will include a design seen in our most recent store openings, including our store on Atlantic Ave. It will include an updated B&N Café,’ the spokesperson said.” (WPIX)
🗽Are New York Liberals a Dying Breed? “The coalition that backed Kathryn Garcia, largely concentrated in Manhattan’s affluent neighborhoods (in addition to several homeowner-heavy white ethnic neighborhoods in Southern Brooklyn, Eastern Queens, and Staten Island), now remains entirely up-for-grabs. The Ideological Left, already bursting at the seams in 2021 (to the point where Stringer’s first priority was to aggressively lock down their support), has grown to the point where they can not only elevate their own Mayoral candidates, but outpace the liberal left with a cutting edge, class-based message. Park Slope and Carroll Gardens may still boast the highest voter turnout, but there are more Williamsburg’s, Kensington’s, Astoria’s, and Bedford-Stuyvesant’s.” (The Narrative Wars)
A Sunday Special Guide to Roman-Style Pizza al Taglio, From the New Impasto
By Dan Myers
