Tear Down the King @ Old Stone House. Knife trucks explained. Niblo’s Garden @ Green-Wood. Kaiju. The Warriors’ + 'Pitch Perfect.' Summer camps on Monday.
Plus: Joe Fenti. Origami + soil classes. Handwriting the Constitution.
Welcome to the Sunday AM edition of the Park Slope Walk. We want to give you some media you can lean back with, and a rundown of the events in the week ahead so you can make some inspiring plans.
This week, that means volunteer opportunities and a bizarre bird robbery above the paywall, and tips on how to find knife-sharpening trucks, the Book Now section, and the week’s events below.
Get Involved
Get Coffee with the Assemblymember from North Slope and Gowanus on Monday: If you live within Jo Anne Simon’s district (map here) then stop by Cobble Hill. (IG)
🌳Teen Service Series: Green Prospect Park on Wednesday: “Prospect Park needs you! 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. All tools are provided + no experience is necessary. Earn service hours, make a real impact, and have a blast doing it! Spots are limited — grab yours now before they’re gone!"(11:00 AM, Prospect Park, Free! Registration Required)
🌳Summer Spruce Up on Thursday @ Prospect Park: “Join Prospect Park Alliance for a special summer work session at our Summer Spruce Up volunteer series. Volunteers will assist in tasks such as invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, litter pick up, and other landscaping needs. The group meets at a different location every week."(10:00 AM, Prospect Park, Free, Registration Required)
Lean Back Media
🦜Popular Parrot Stolen from Park Slope Laundromat (VIDEO): “The owner of a laundromat says someone stole his beloved parrot.” (NBC New York)
🚙Numbers are in and NYC congestion pricing is a big 'success,’ Hochul says: “The dip in vehicle volume – 10 million all told – has led to substantial drops in traffic delays, the governor’s office said. At the Holland Tunnel, rush hour delays are down 65%. And drivers coming into the city are getting back 7 minutes for every hour spent commuting, according to the governor’s data.” (Gothamist)
🗞The NYT Trips on Another Mamdani Piece: In June, the Times editorial board published its failed “anti-endorsement” of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run. It seemed to have little effect—perhaps because the Times doesn’t really do Metro reporting anymore—but this week the Times once again took aim at the Democratic mayoral nominee. It went badly again!
The Times reported that, “in 2009, as part of a college application to Columbia, Mamdani had checked boxes indicating that he was both ‘Asian’ and ‘Black or African American.’ Mamdani, who is of Indian descent, was born in Uganda and lived in South Africa before moving to the United States when he was seven years old.”
As for the source of Mamdani’s application?
The article indicated that the hacked materials had been provided, under the condition of anonymity, by an intermediary known on Substack and X as Crémieux, who was described only as “an academic and an opponent of affirmative action.” But there’s more to that source: as The Guardian reported in March, Crémieux is the social media alias of Jordan Lasker, a promoter of white supremacist views. The Times updated its article to note that Crémieux “writes often about IQ and race.”
City reporters and other journalists noted that the whole thing was oddly forced by the Times:
Don Moynihan’s careful breakdown of the Times’ misfires in Mamdani’s direction, below is worth reading in full.