Happy Easter!

- from the merchants of Park Slope's Fifth Avenue and the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID .

News Round-Up

Park Slope Parents Say Library Has Too Much Technology [Gotham]

WATCH: MillionTreesNYC Program Plants 31 Trees in Park Slope [NY Eater]

Park Slope Student is Semi-finalist in State Geography Bee [NY Eater]

The Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair

We wouldn't normally announce a BID event two months in advance, but since we learned this week that the Great Googa Mooga food and music festival will be taking place in Prospect Park during the same weekend as the fair for the second year in a row, we thought we'd let you know:

The Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair

Sunday, May 19 from 12 PM to 5 PM

 

12 Street to Sterling Place on Fifth

Save the Date!

Merchant Seminar: Email Marketing

Fifth Avenue merchants and interested small business owners, the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID is hosting another free seminar on email marketing this Thursday, March 28th at 9:30 at the BID Office (247 Fifth Avenue, above Pork Slope).

Details below:

THE POWER OF EMAIL MARKETING FOR YOUR BUSINESS SERIES

How To Develop An E-mail Marketing Campaign

Email marketing helps you keep customers and prospects coming back—by using attractive, professional-looking email communications to stay in regular touch with them and build strong customer relationships.In this seminar, presented by Sunny Day Marketing, the following will be covered:

-Step-by-step interactive development of an actual e-mail marketing campaign
-Tips and techniques for email marketing best practices
-How often to communicate with your audience, and how to get readers to take action
-Creating content that people want to receive and readRegister now for this workshop here

Sponsored by Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District

A Taste of Fifth Keeps Growing!

More participating restaurants were added to A Taste of Fifth Avenue. Get your tickets now before you miss out on the biggest food event of the year!

April 10th, 6:30 pm, Grand Prospect Hall

Community Groups
$20 of each ticket you purchase goes to one of the following local groups of your choice:

-5th Avenue Committee (FAC)
-Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
-Brooklyn Pride
-Dream Factory of Brooklyn
-Good Shepherd
-Middle School 51
-Old Stone House & Washington Park
-Park Slope Civic Council
-President Street Community Garden



Participants (list in formation):

• 200 Fifth
• Al Di La
• Aperitivo Café
• Atomic Wings
• Baluchi's
• Backyard
• Benchmark
• Beauty Bar
• Bierkraft
• Blue Ribbon
• Blue Sky Bakery
• Bogota Latin Bistro
• Burger Bistro
• Campo di Fiori
• Caramello
• Chip Shop
• Coco Roco
• Der Kommissar
• DuJour Bakery
• El Pollito Mexican
• Empire Express
• Fort Reno
• Has Beans
• Kos Kaffe
• LaDolce Café & Bakehouse
• Leske’s Bakery
• Lobo
• M & S Prime Meats
• Palo Santo
• Piramide
• Pork Slope (Talde)
• Fort Reno
• Sidecar
• Sky Ice Sweet & Savory Thai
• South
• Stone Park Café
• V-Spot
• Yayo’s Latin Cuisine

Happy Passover

-from the merchants of Park Slope's Fifth Avenue and the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID .

News Round-Up

CVS, Duane Reade Pharmacies in Park Slope Often Fail Health Inspections [PS Patch]

Park Slope Hurricane Sandy Relief Kitchen Still Feeding Thousands [DNA Info]

Park Slope Chamber Moves Forward with Plans for 7th Ave. BID [Brooklyn Eagle]

Fornino Park Slope Is Dunzo, Fornino Greenpoint Coming [NY Eater]

Participatory Budgeting Expo Tonight in Park Slope [Brooklyn News]

Smith/9th St Station to Open Week of April 22! [Park Slope Stoop]

Last Day of Dine in Brooklyn 2013

Today is the last day of Dine in Brooklyn 2013! Get out there and enjoy all that Brooklyn has to offer!

Below is the list of participating Fifth Avenue BID Restaurants:

B = Brunch ($20.13 for 2)
L = Lunch ($20.13)
D = Dinner ($28.00)
$ = Dine Again Card ($10 value)

200 Fifth D$
al di la Trattoria L
AOC Bistro BD Aperitivo D
Benchmark Restaurant BLD$
Blue Ribbon Brooklyn D
Bogota Latin Bistro D
Campo de Fiori BLD
Dizzy's D
J Pan Sushi D
Melt BLD
Miriam D
Nana Restaurant BLD
Palo Santo BD
Peperoncino D
Stone Park Cafe L

The full list of participating restaurants is available for download here. Also, check out the Dine in Brooklyn 2013 Google Map.

Big Deals at Brooklyn Fish Camp

Fifth Avenue's Brooklyn Fish Camp is rolling out some great weeknight deals that we thought you should know about:

Monday nights: $20 bottles of house red and white wine
Tuesday nights: $9 half dozen oysters
Wednesday nights: All you can eat / drink peel 'n' eat shrimp, fries, hush puppies and canned Rolling Rocks for $30

They have also lowered their lobster roll prices down to $20! That includes fries!

Sounds like we'll need to loosen our belts again.

Photos from the E-Waste Event

In case you missed it, Saturday's Electronic Waste Recycling event was a big success. A big thanks to the Lower East Side Ecology Center for managing the event and to Council Member Stephen Levin for funding it!

Below are some photos we took over the course of the day (it wasn't easy to take photos while carrying printers, computers and televisions). Fans of vintage electronic gear should definitely check the photos out. We collected some amazing pieces:

Taste of Fifth Update

New restaurants and local community groups were added to A Taste of Fifth Avenue last week. Check out the growing list, below!

April 10th, 6:30 pm, Grand Prospect Hall

Community Groups
$20 of each ticket you purchase goes to one of the following local groups of your choice:

-5th Avenue Committee (FAC)
-Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
-Brooklyn Pride
-Dream Factory of Brooklyn
-Good Shepherd
-Middle School 51
-Old Stone House & Washington Park
-Park Slope Civic Council
-President Street Community Garden



Participants (list in formation):

• 200 Fifth
• Aperitivo Café
• Blue Ribbon
• Baluchi's
• Backyard
• Benchmark
• Beauty Bar
• Blue Sky Bakery
• Bogota Latin Bistro
• Caramello
• Chip Shop
• Coco Roco
• Der Kommissar
• El Pollito Mexicano
• Empire Express
• DuJour Bakery
• Has Beans
• Kos Kaffe
• LaDolce Café & Bakehouse
• Leske’s Bakery
• M &S Prime Meats
• Palo Santo
• Piramide
• Pork Slope (Talde)
• Fort Reno
• Sidecar
• Sky Ice Sweet & Savory Thai
• South
• Stone Park Café
• Yayo’s Latin Cuisine

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

-from the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID and the merchants of Fifth Avenue!

News Round-Up

5 Things: Zombies and St. Patrick's Day Parade [PS Patch]

Park Slope Playwright Explores the Mythical Side of Coney Island DNA Info]

America Needs More Park Slope [Slate]

Au Revior, Dairy! Slope French Bistro Goes Kosher [Brooklyn Daily]

P.S. 321 to Host First-Ever Park Slope Dog Show [DNA Info]

E-Waste Event This Saturday!

Don't forget that this Saturday, March 16th, the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, Lower East Side Ecology Center and Council Member Stephen Levin will be sponsoring an electronics recycling event from 10 am - 4 pm on Fifth Avenue in front of Key Food (near Sterling Place).

Whatever you do, do not park along that block until after 4 on Saturday, ok?

What can you bring?

Working and non-working equipment:

• Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)

• Monitors
• Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
• Tablets and E-readers
• Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)

• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, & DVD Players
• Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
• Portable music players
• Audio-visual equipment
• Video-games
• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
• Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)


NO home appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, or air conditioners.

A Taste of Fifth Tickets On Sale Now

A Taste of Fifth is just about one month away! Tickets are on-sale now via Brownpapertickets.com. Twenty dollars of every $45 ticket sold will be donated to a local non-profit of your choice from the list below:

-5th Avenue Committee (FAC)
-Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
-Brooklyn Pride
-Dream Factory of Brooklyn
-Good Shepherd
-Middle School 51
-Old Stone House & Washington Park
-Park Slope Civic Council
-President Street Community Garden

WHEN: April 10th, 6:30 PM
WHERE:  The Grand Prospect Hall
WHAT: A sumptuous sampling of delectable food from dozens of Fifth Avenue’s great restaurants. Enjoy music, dancing, and complimentary wine & beer.



Participants (list in formation):

• 200 Fifth
• Aperitivo Café
• Blue Ribbon
• Baluchi's
• Backyard
• Benchmark
• Beauty Bar
• Bogota Latin Bistro
• Caramello
• Chip Shop 
• Coco Roco
• Der Kommissar
• DuJour Bakery
• Has Beans
• Kos Kaffe
• LaDolce Café & Bakehouse
• Leske’s Bakery
• M & S Prime Meats
• Palo Santo
• Piramide
• Pork Slope (Talde)
• Fort Reno
• Sidecar
• Sky Ice Sweet & Savory Thai
• South
• Stone Park Café
• Yayo’s Latin Cuisine

Dine in Brooklyn Begins

Dine in Brooklyn started yesterday. It's time to make some plans. Where will you be eating this year?

For Dine in Brooklyn 2013, hundreds of restaurants throughout the borough will be offering a 2 for $20.13 Brunch, a $20.13 Lunch, a $28.00 Dinner or a combination of two or more options. Plus, select restaurants will have $10 Dine Again cards available.

Below is the list of participating Fifth Avenue BID Restaurants:

B = Brunch
L = Lunch
D = Dinner
$ = Dine Again Card

200 Fifth D$
al di la Trattoria L
AOC Bistro BD Aperitivo D
Benchmark Restaurant BLD$
Blue Ribbon Brooklyn D
Bogota Latin Bistro D
Campo de Fiori BLD
Dizzy's D
J Pan Sushi D
Melt BLD
Miriam D
Nana Restaurant BLD
Palo Santo BD
Peperoncino D
Stone Park Cafe L

The full list of participating restaurants is available for download here. Also, check out the Dine in Brooklyn 2013 Google Map.

A Taste of Fifth 2013

On April 10th, bring your appetite to The Grand Prospect Hall for a sumptuous sampling of delectable food from dozens of Fifth Avenue’s great restaurants. Enjoy music, dancing, and complimentary wine & beer. Twenty dollars of every $45 ticket sold will be donated to a local non-profit of your choice from the list below:

*Brooklyn Arts Exchange
*Brooklyn Pride
*Middle School 51
*Park Slope Civic Council
*President Street Community Garden
*The Fifth Avenue Committee
*Old Stone House & Washington Park
*Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID

Purchase your tickets online via Brownpapertickets.com now!

Participants (list in formation):

• 200 Fifth
• Aperitivo Café
• Blue Ribbon
• Baluchi's
• Backyard
• Benchmark
• Beauty Bar
• Bogota Latin Bistro
• Caramello
• Chip Shop 
• Coco Roco
• Der Kommissar
• DuJour Bakery
• Has Beans
• Kos Kaffe
• LaDolce Café & Bakehouse
• Leske’s Bakery
• M &S Prime Meats
• Palo Santo
• Piramide
• Pork Slope (Talde)
• Fort Reno
• Sidecar
• Sky Ice Sweet & Savory Thai
• South
• Stone Park Café
• Yayo’s Latin Cuisine

News Round-Up

5 Things: Check Out Fletcher's Brooklyn BBQ [PS Patch]

Show off your Pooch at PS 321 this Saturday [FIPS]

Loli's Taqueria to Replace Lucky 7 on Sixth Ave [PS Patch]

Readers Fight to Save Pacific Branch Library [Brooklyn Paper]

Park Slope Women Honored for Service to Community [PS Patch]

Help Opera on Tap Get Smashed

Our friends at Opera on Tap have always been great supporters of Fifth Avenue; providing singers and a little bit of dramatic flair for many of the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID's outdoor events. Now, they need Park Slope's help to produce their first full production, called "Smashed":

Giving a new spin to the operatic mainstay of the strong leading lady, SMASHED is an absurdist take on the life of Carrie Nation, a radical turn-of-the-century teetotaler, who furthered her cause through vandalism –namely, attacking drinking establishments with a hatchet.

Their goal is to raise $15,000 by April 3rd.

Do you care about local arts and music? Maybe you can visit their Indigogo page and help!

Dine in Brooklyn 2013

It's that time of year again! Time to go out and celebrate Brooklyn's amazing restaurants!

The festivities kick off on Monday, March 11th and continue through March 21st. Hundreds of restaurants throughout the borough will be offering a 2 for $20.13 Brunch, a $20.13 Lunch, a $28.00 Dinner or a combination of two or more options. Plus, select restaurants will have $10 Dine Again cards available.

Below is the list of participating Fifth Avenue BID Restaurants:

B = Brunch
L = Lunch
D = Dinner
$ = Dine Again Card

200 Fifth D$
al di la Trattoria L
AOC Bistro BD Aperitivo D
Benchmark Restaurant BLD$
Blue Ribbon Brooklyn D
Bogota Latin Bistro D
Campo de Fiori BLD
Dizzy's D
J Pan Sushi D
Melt BLD
Miriam D
Nana Restaurant BLD
Palo Santo BD
Peperoncino D
Stone Park Cafe L

The full list of participating restaurants is available for download here. Also, check out the Dine in Brooklyn 2013 Google Map.

Recent Changes Along Fifth

There has been a lot of change taking place along Fifth Avenue over the past few weeks. According to our statistics, there is a normal increase in storefront vacancies around this time of year, just after the Christmas season. This year, however, there seems to be a more pronounced change taking place near the new Barclay's Center:

Closed

La Vedette (43 Fifth Avenue)

Bnai Tzedukah Thrift Store (66 Fifth Avenue)

Get Reel (70 Fifth Avenue): Here's Park Slope says it will soon be a high-end consignment boutique

Sun Bo Bo (471 Fifth Avenue)

Canaille Wine Bar (78 Fifth Avenue)

Fornino/Polpette (256 Fifth Avenue)

Body Unique (382 Fifth Avenue)

Kahawa Cafe (557 Fifth Avenue)

Open/Opening Soon

Shang Hai Spa (241 Fifth Avenue): Coming Soon

L'Albero dei Gelati (341 Fifth Avenue): Coming Soon

Mezini Restaurant & Raw Bar (492 Fifth Avenue): Coming Soon

Leske's Bakery (588 Fifth Avenue): open now

Tommy's Famous Cheesesteaks & Pizza (454 Fifth Avenue): Coming Soon

Fifth Avenue E-Waste Event

Just a reminder that on Saturday, March 16th, the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, Lower East Side Ecology Center and Council Member Stephen Levin will be sponsoring an electronics recycling event from 10 am - 4 pm on Fifth Avenue in front of Key Food (near Sterling Place).

What can you bring?

Working and non-working equipment:

 •    Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)

•    Monitors
•    Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
•    Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
•    Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
•    Tablets and E-readers
•    Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)

•    TVs, VCRs, DVRs, & DVD Players
•    Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
•    Portable music players
•    Audio-visual equipment
•    Video-games
•    Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
•    Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

NO home appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, or air conditioners.

News Round-Up

Park Slope Condo Lures Eco-Conscious Buyers with 'Harvest to Plank' Floors [DNA Info]

Noella Brew Bar Closing This Weekend [PS Patch]

Park Slope Shop Owners Push for Business Improvement District to Boost Sales [News 12]

Phase Two of Park Slope Landmarking Taking Shape [Brownstoner]