Reasons Fifth Avenue Lives Up to The Hype

If you haven't read it already, Gothamist's 100 Reasons Why Brooklyn Lives Up To The Hype is a great reminder of the things that make the borough such an amazing place to live.

Congratulations to Fifth Avenue's Bierkraft, Union Hall, Freddy's Bar, Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. for the mentions and to our friends at The Old Stone House for the "Battle of Brooklyn" mention.

Read the full article here.

Next Week: Piper Theatre Opens at The Old Stone House

July is fast approaching and with it, a new season of Piper Theatre performances begins, outdoors, at The Old Stone House.

The season kicks off on July 7th with "An Evening of Emerging Artists", a fundraising event featuring an "Artist's Market" (showcasing Brooklyn-Made goods), VIP Seats for the evening's opening performance and a cast party featuring Damian Young (Showtime's Californication) and Jan Leslie Harding (Obie Award Winner). Tickets are $40 ($50 at the door) and benefit Piper Theatre.

This summer's opening production will be Moliere's The Miser.

A new adaptation of Moliere’s dark comedy adapted and directed by Welker White. Brother and sister, Cleante and Elise want to marry their chosen lovers but their father, Harpagon, has very different plans. Pushing his children’s interests aside, Harpagon arranges marriages for them with one thing in mind — finding suitable partners without having to part with the one thing he loves the most: his money! Appropriate for ages 8 and up. FREE

Performances run on Thursday and Friday Nights at 8:30 from July 7th - July 22nd. More details here.

Dancing Under the Stars 2011

Dancing Under the Stars was a popular event every week in July and August of 2010 (although the weather didn't always cooperate). This year's program starts on July 5th and the fun has expanded to two nights per week!

On Tuesday nights, adults can dance to live music on 4th Street at Fifth Avenue from 7 to 9 PM. On Wednesday nights, bring the kids down for a special performance by Rolie Polie Guacamole from 6 to 7 PM.

To see a video from one of last year's Dancing Under the Stars events, click here.

The full summer schedule is posted at parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/dancing2011 (still in formation).

Meet-Up With Google Places

We haven't done a meet-up/tweet-up since April (it's been a busy spring) but this Tuesday, June 28th, the "Real BK Nets" (which we are a part of) will be co-hosting a meet-up event with Google Places. Details below:

Google Places is proud to team up with The Real Brooklyn Nets for our next meetup!

The Real Brooklyn Nets exists to help link Brooklyn bloggers and small business advocates with Brooklyn/NYC startup folks. Google's new features are pretty slick, so we're excited they've decided to reach out to our community. We'll be meeting at the fantastic 4th Avenue Pub from 7-9.

Google Places (www.google.com/places) is a new personalized local recommendation engine powered by users and their friends, and they want to buy you a beer. They will be on hand giving out swag and buying drinks for anyone who downloads or shows the Google Places app on their smartphone and does a review on the spot.

They're also giving away brunch for two at applewood! To enter, just go to www.google.com/hotpot, click on "friends list", and add placesnycbknets@gmail.com to your list of friends, then start reviewing. The best reviewer will be selected at 7pm on Tuesday, 6/28, and will win a brunch for two at applewood ($50 value)! For reviews, 3-4 sentences is fine, along with a few things you think is special about the business. Whoever generates the most quality reviews (quality means the reviews are informative, descriptive, and creative--spam reviews won't count toward your totals!) will win. We will pick a winner will based on usefulness and uniqueness. Writing useful reviews could also qualify you to become a Power User and get you more swag and invites to awesome future parties.


So, yeah, it isn't on Fifth Avenue, but we think you'll find the event really interesting, especially if you love technology or if you are a merchant who wants to know more about Google Places. To RSVP, go to eventbrite.com/event/1831649513.

We hope to see you there!

News Round-Up

City Plans Special Commercial District for Fourth Ave. [CG Patch]

Singer unloads Stalled Slope Condo Site [The Real Deal]

How Slopey Are You? [PS Patch]

Shelsky's, Rosarito, Ports Coffee, Milk Street All Certified Open [NY Eater]

Chicken Coops Popping Up In Backyards Across Brooklyn [CBS Local]

Make Music Fifth Avenue -- Night Two

Make Music Fifth Avenue -- Night One

Did you get a chance to check out the performers on Fifth Avenue last night? If not, we managed to catch some performances on video. Here is what we slapped together, late last night (and yes, the opening photo is too blurry). There's more music tonight along Fifth Avenue, starting at 7:00. See you there!

Details at parkslopefifthavenuebid.com/makemusic2011.