NYE Fireworks, Special Menus and Parties! Black & White Ball! Fashion Clearance Sale on 5th!
Plus: Two pups who need homes! Japanese New Year! Two 'Godfather' movies!
Welcome back to your Park Slope events newsletter. As always, links to sources are in (parentheses) after each event. Follow our IG for updates as events change.
Get Involved
🥪Make Sandwiches for CHiPS: “Please help us to start the new year off right by helping us to provide sandwiches to our guests when we reopen in January (January 2nd will be our first day open in 2024). Especially during the first week of January, we will need of individually wrapped and labelled sandwiches to help feed our growing line of soup kitchen guests. We're looking for chicken salad and egg salad sandwiches, ham and cheese, turkey and cheese, cheese sandwiches, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which are the most popular with our guests.” (CHiPS 4th Avenue)
🐶🐺Find Homes for Furry and Scurry! “Look at our adorable brothers Furry and Scurry! These pups are about four months old and looking for a home to call their own. These Shepherd mixes were born outside and haven’t had much human interaction and are very scared.” (Sean Casey Shelter)
🎄🚮Holiday Tree Drop-Off in Prospect Park: “Join Prospect Park Alliance in recycling your holiday tree! Starting December 26, do the Earth a favor and leave your holiday tree along the Prospect Park perimeter fence near the 3rd Street Entrance, Lincoln Road Entrance or Park Circle Entrance. The trees will be collected by staff members and volunteers and turned into mulch for the public to use.” (All Day, Prospect Park)
News & Links
👗🏷Closing Sale at St. Hrouda, 60% Off Everything: After five years, this destination for local fashion designers is shutting its doors. (St. Hrouda)
📰Travis Scott Made Dean Street Quake: “It felt like the windows might crack from the vibration. ‘I was like, Oh my God, what the hell is happening?’ De Silva says, as he too watched his Christmas tree sway. De Silva’s 16-year-old son knew what it was right away: “He said, ‘It’s probably the Travis Scott show,’ and I said, “No, absolutely not.’ De Silva called his super, who reported that the penthouse residents upstairs were also feeling the building move, and then he called 311, which sent the Fire Department.” (Curbed)
🎶A Holiday Ode to Mr. Lime’s All-Hours Service: We only just discovered Celeste Cantor-Stephens’ song about how you can get anything from this 7th Avenue institution, even on Christmas. If you haven’t watched, give it two minutes of your time. (YouTube)
Book Now: Special NYE Menus
Four-course meal at Brasserie Le Mistral
Five-course prix-fixe at Siren
This Soba only comes once a year at Wasan Brooklyn
Special French menu at Winemak’Her
Oysters, caviar, fried chicken, champagne, potato chips at Winner
Events
Thursday, 12/28
❄️🌲Winter Recess in Prospect Park: “Make the most of winter break! Join Prospect Park Alliance for family friendly programming every day during winter recess from Tuesday, December 26 – Sunday, December 31.
Nature Exploration, 12–4 pm
Nature Around Us, 12–3 pm: Enjoy different seasonal discovery stations and nature themed activities that will introduce you to the plants, insects and animals that call the park home. The Lake and Lullwater are home to many plants and animals. Help us to test the water quality and investigate pond samples that are filled with living organisms.
Animal Encounter, 2–3 pm: Join Alliance Naturalists in learning more about the animals in the Audubon Center’s collection. This program starts promptly at 2 pm.
Family Bird Walk, 3–4 pm: Prospect Park is a stopping point for hundreds of bird species each year! Join us as we search for these amazing creatures and other nature around the park. Binoculars and bird guides are provided. This program departs from the Audubon Center promptly at 3 pm.” (12:00 AM, Prospect Park)
🌑South Slope Pinball League: “Season two is upon us! Who’s gonna try to cut Rob down at the knees!?” (8:00 PM, Buttermilk Bar)
Friday, 12/29
🍿‘Holiday' (1938) @ BPL: “Part of our mini alt-holiday film series. A youg man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée’s eccentric sister and long-suffering brother. A lavish New Year's Eve party provides the back drop to a pivitol plot twist. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection on what it truly means to live well." (3:00 PM, Central Library)
🧶DIY Fridays @ BPL: Folded Book Sculptures. “Join us in the Youth Wing to learn how to create a folded book sculpture. Finished sculptures will be displayed in the Youth Wing gallery cases in the teen area. All supplies will be provided--if you don't finish the craft in an hour, you can take it home to complete. For ages 12 and up.” (4:00 PM, Central Library)
🍾The Not My NYE Eve Eve Party: “Okay but who actually wants to go all out for NYE on a Sunday?! That’s why we’re raging the Friday before! Join us for the next installment of the Not My Party Series: The NOT MY NYE Eve EVE PARTY on 12/29 at littlefield! What to expect: Glitter. Sparkle. Dazzle. Video clips. Resolutions. Mini-games. Drink tickets! Participation points. Bizarre prizes? A pinata?! Sing-alongs?! Hats! When Harry Met Sally re-enactments. Maybe someone will get PROPOSED to!” (7:30 PM, Littlefield $5-$10)
🍾🤣New Year, New Material with Larry Owens: “New Year, New Me? No! New Year, New Material! Join Owens (High Maintenance, A Strange Loop, Abbott Elementary) for a fun and exciting night of never before seen comedy material." (7:30 PM, Union Hall $15)
💃Live Salsa @ Sahadi's: “Come hang out in Courtyard 3/4 at Sahadi’s Industry City every Friday and listen and dance to live Latin music by Cuarteto Guataca – One of NYC’s biggest salsa parties." (7:30 PM, Sahadi's)
🍾Dar Williams: Almost New Year's: “Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity” (8:00 PM, The Bell House $30)
🍾🤣Joey’s Spontaneous Soirée: End of the Year Edition: “Joey Dardano and his friends have some exciting things going on in their lives, so naturally, he thinks it’s time to get a few friends together to party it up and celebrate before they drop that big ol ball in Times Square and we’re off into a new year. This Soirée will be so much better than Time Square on NYE because nobody will be wearing diapers! (They do that, google it)” (10:00 PM, Union Hall)
Saturday Early, 12/30
🍿‘When Harry Met Sally’ @ Nitehawk: “Beginning from when they first meet in college and then fast-forwarding to their re-connection ten years later, audiences can all rejoice when the inevitable happens. So come celebrate a truly beloved writer and a beautiful story of friendship.” (11:00 AM, Nitehawk)
🎺Live Afro Jazz @ Sahadi's: “Join the SABAR Group and listen to a variety of Afro Jazz and Latin, a mix of fun and exciting music in Sahadi’s outdoor courtyard with a firepit for s’mores.” (6:00 PM, Sahadi's)
Saturday Late, AKA NYE Eve, 12/30
🤣Andrea Jin: “Andrea Jin is a stand-up comedian and writer born in Shanghai, relocated to Canada, and currently based in Los Angeles. She gained recognition in the comedy scene after winning Comedy Album of the Year in 2021 at the Juno Awards from the Canadian Academy of Recording Artists for her solo album 'Grandma's Girl'.” (7:30 PM, The Bell House, $25-$30)
🍾💋The Ginger Cabaret: A Redhead Revue New Year’s Eve Eve: “This cabaret of sultry burlesque, variety, chanteuses, gogo, and more is presented by NYC’s most talented redheads and emceed by drag wrestling champion and badass rapper The Boy Diva.” (7:30 PM, Barrow's Intense Tasting Room)
🍾Switch N’ Play New Year's Eve (Eve)!: “Beloved Brooklyn drag and burlesque collective Switch n’ Play returns to littlefield!” (8:00 PM, Littlefield $15)
🍾🎭The Black And White Masked Ball New Year's Eve: “Tthe original ball was the glorious 1966 creation of already-infamous writer Truman Capote. Royalty and Hollywood idols, authors and political powerhouses filled the imposing ballroom in strict shades of black and white, masked and mysterious, amidst the Plaza Hotel's signature red accents. Expect the surreal and the sublime in shades of black and white, rich sounds of jazz, brass and swing whisking your body into a fervor, dancers swirling like op-art animations, aerialists in dizzying patterns soaring overhead, dance divas shimmering in feathers and rhinestones, feats of fantastic physical strength, mysterious clairvoyants to divine your future, and booty-shaking electro-swing DJs.” (9:00 PM, Gemini & Scorpio $30)
🤣The Dogfight with Ivy Wolk: “Wolk hosts a frenetic evening of live performance featuring some of your favorite performers of all time” (10:00 PM, Union Hall)
🍾Switch N’ Play New Year's Eve (Eve)!: See 8PM listing. (11:00 PM, Littlefield)
Sunday, New Year’s Eve
🍾Best Year Ever: “Celebrate the end of 2023 and the beginning of what is going to be THE BEST YEAR EVER (fingers crossed) with some of NYC's best comedians presenting their BEST BITS of 2023 at Union Hall this New Year's Eve. With your host Jenny Gorelick and DJ Ilana Rubin.” (7:00 PM, Union Hall)
🍾Parklife New Year's Eve Party: “Ring in 2024 with your friends at Parklife!” (7:00 PM, Parklife)
🍾New Year's Eve Time Machine: “Drink and dance your way to the future with New Years Eve Time Machine at Union Hall! Music on both floors from DJ Nina Vicious, playing throwback jams and all the best new songs!” (8:00 PM, Union Hall)
🍾Y2K NYE at The Bell House: “Three unique spaces, with throwback DJs, NYC's finest drag queens, pop-up 2000's cover band, surprise guests & more -- all under one roof.” (9:00 PM, The Bell House $20)
🍾🎭The Black And White Masked Ball New Year's Eve: See 12/30 listing. (9:00 PM, Gemini & Scorpio $30)
🍾💥New Year’s Eve Fireworks in Prospect Park: “Join Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Prospect Park Alliance for Brooklyn’s most spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration at Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Park. The event will include live entertainment by Quintessential Playlist who will perform live music at 10 pm before the fireworks begin.” (10:00 PM, Grand Army Plaza)
🍾The Smiths Tribute NYC: New Year’s Eve: “Featuring an opening set by the Screamin’ Rebel Angels, followed by a set of Smiths and Morrissey solo classics and deep cuts with The Smiths Tribute NYC.” (10:00 PM, Littlefield $25)
🍾Sound & Vision Brooklyn: A Late-Night New Year’s Eve Dance Party: “join hundreds of like minded Alternative music fans in the Brooklyn / Tri-State area for a full night on the dance floor as DJ Ceremony provides an all-night soundtrack of the best in ‘80s Alternative, New Wave, Classic ‘90s Britpop, Indie, Synthpop, Manchester, Postpunk, and more. Bring your dancing shoes!” (12:30 AM, Littlefield $10)
Monday, New Year’s Day
🥾New Year’s Day Super Hike: “Join the Urban Park Rangers on a lengthy hike in Prospect PArk. Dress warmly, put on your hiking shoes, and head to the park. Urban Park Ranger hiking guides will introduce you to the hidden gems of the park. Explore nature, discover our city’s urban forests, and unplug from the world to clear your head.” (12:00 PM, Prospect Park)
🇯🇵Japan Village: Japanese Traditional New Year Ceremonies: “Don’t miss this opportunity to welcome the New Year in a truly authentic and festive Japanese style. Whether you’re a fan of cultural traditions, delicious treats, or simply looking for a unique way to kick off the year, this event promises to be a memorable experience for everyone.” (2:00 PM, Japan Village)
Tuesday, 1/2
🎭Theater Workshop: “This weekly workjshop will explore classic and modern plays to stimulate discussion about culture and context. By reading aloud, participants will discover and discuss the ways in which actors bring scripts to life.” (3:30 PM, Central Library)
🍿‘Tokyo Godfathers’ @ Nitehawk: “Middle-aged alcoholic Gin (Toru Emori), teenage runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto) and former drag queen Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki) are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby’s identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents.” (9:15 PM, Nitehawk)
Wednesday, 1/3
🍿’Godfather Part II' @ Nitehawk: “Traces two generations of crime starting with the beginning of a gangster family in Sicily and early 1920s New York life of a young “godfather” Vito Corleone (played by Robert de Niro). It also focuses on his son Michael’s (Al Pacino) budding life of crime as he takes control over their crime syndicate stretching from Nevada to Cuba in the late 1950s. The Godfather films set the tone for a new wave of gangster films and this one is rightly considered an American classic; oh, and quite possibly cinema’s greatest sequel.” (8:30 PM, Nitehawk)
Thursday, 1/4
🤖Brooklyn Robotics League Park Slope Team: “This program is in partnership with First LEGO League and a systemwide Brooklyn Public Library competition will be happening this Janurary 2024. If you are in between the ages of 9 to 17, please register with your parent's permission and join the team!” (3:00 PM, Park Slope Library)
✒️Adult Manga Discussion Group: “Interested in reading and sharing your thoughts on manga? Join us in a discussion where we share our favorite series and single volume series.” (6:00 PM, Central Library)
🤣Joe Mande: “Writer/comedian/actor Joe Mande was most recently a Co-EP on the critically-acclaimed HBO Max show Hacks. He also wrote for all four seasons of THE GOOD PLACE on NBC. Other writing credits include three seasons on PARKS AND RECREATION as well as MASTER OF NONE on Netflix, FOREVER on Amazon, and KROLL SHOW on Comedy Central. ” (7:00 PM, Union Hall, $20)
🍿Spoons Toons & Booze New Years After Dark: “A new year means a fresh start, a reinvention, a new beginning and in some cases…a genesis. To mark the beginning of 2024, we’re looking all the way back to the beginning of our favorite prime time and late night cartoon series and characters! Hosted by SecretFormula’s cartoon and cereal experts Michael Austin and Nell Casey.” (9:15 PM, Nitehawk)
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Nicole sorry for this random comment but is there a way to submit an event happening on 1/12 for your consideration? If so lmk how. Thanks!