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]