The Babeland outpost in Park Slope is offering up a new service for Brooklynites who don't want to get out of bed: they'll deliver sex toys to your door, and by bike! According to the Brooklyn Paper (who just happened to find out about it?), the service costs a whopping 30 bucks, but it's free on Valentine's Day. more ›

Betty White's team of senior pranksters have been spotted in Park Slope. The 90-year-old actress has a new show called Off Their Rockers, which is basically Punk'd but with White instead of Ashton Kutcher. FIPS noticed that in a recent episode of the hidden-camera prank show (which airs on NBC) takes place in Park Slope! Even though it's mostly filmed in Los Angeles. more ›

Southpaw's owner tells us why they're closing, and what Park Slope's music scene will be missing without them. more ›

Is Park Slope mainstay Southpaw closing in February? According to Brooklyn Vegan, the venue—which opened in 2002—will shut its doors on February 20th. One of the bookers at the club Tweeted, I can't believe I'm writing this. Southpaw will be closing its doors for good Feb. 20th. The venue's been sold." Which currently seems to be the main confirmation. more ›

Park Slope, prepare your bibs: some heavy new BBQ hitters are heading your way soon. Ben Popken reports that Dinosaur BBQ, the Syracuse-based chain with a popular location in Harlem, is moving into a defunct warehouse on a desolate stretch on Union Street. more ›

Former Buddakan cook and Top Chef contestant Dale Talde is opening his own place, called, appropriately, Talde, in Park Slope this weekend, bringing what appears to be a random but promising mish-mash of Asian flavors and techniques to a neighborhood not typically known for envelope-pushing restaurants. more ›

It may be too late to keep that sweet sweet mulch for yourself, but you can still drop your tree off to be recycled for MulchFest. If we had to guess which neighborhoods would enthusiastically participate, Park Slope would be at the top of the list. But Gothamist operative Kristina Monllos snapped photos of multiple trees sitting untied on top of cars, and one cyclist dragging the carcass of their evergreen down the street. "Maybe Park Slope families have no idea how to properly clean up after Christmas?" Monllos writes. And is that any way to treat a $200 fraser fir? more ›

On Wednesday night Nueske’s, the beloved smoked meats purveyor, will be taking over Bark Hot Dogs in Park Slope for a five-course tasting menu paired with various Sixpoint beers, including a new beer that hasn't been released yet, the Mad Scientist #7. Bark says they'll be incorporating products from the Wisconsin-based smokehouse for each course, and Vera Obias, the pastry chef at Buddakan, will round out the meal by making a special bacon-infused dessert: Almond Brioche Bread Pudding with Smoked Bacon Maple Sauce & Vanilla Rum Ice Cream. more ›

Members of the family who were trapped in a Brooklyn row house fire on Thanksgiving are in critical condition in NYC hospitals. According to the Post, 8-month-old Josiah Alexis, his mother Justine Alexis, uncle Jonathan Alexis and his aunt's husband George DeJesus are all at New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center with ventilators; the baby's aunt, Jasmine Alexis (twin sister to Justine, wife of DeJesus) is at Jacobi Medical Center. This news comes as fire official described how the fire, started by someone smoking in bed, spread across the President Street home in Park Slope. more ›

A fast-moving fire at a Park Slope row house on left five people were injured, including an 8-month-old baby boy and a man who were in cardiac arrest by the time firefighters reached them. Fire department officials say the blaze, which occurred in a three-story walk-up on President Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, was caused by a smoking in bed. more ›

More details have emerged about the man who was stabbed on a Park Slope subway yesterday—while initial reports said that the incident occurred on the G train, the Daily News says it was an F train, and the spat began over some anti-Semitic comments. more ›

A man was stabbed during a fight either on the G train or on the G train platform near Park Slope last night, according to two slightly conflicting reports. Either way, it sounds pretty ugly. more ›

After 25 years in business, the homey red sauce Italian restaurant Aunt Suzie's is going to the great cannoli in the sky. The owner, Irene LoRe, posted an open letter on Park Slope's Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District website announcing her decision to call it quits on January 1st. LoRe, who is also the executive director of the Fifth Avenue BID, opened Aunt Suzie's when Fifth Avenue was a very different (i.e. seedy) scene, and the closure marks the end of an era. more ›

The man arrested for allegedly groping an 18-year-old woman in Sunset Park Monday night has reportedly confessed to police, and apparently he's wanted for a similar incident in Chinatown in 2007. Police sources tell Murray Weiss at DNAinfo that Adolfo Martinez, 26, blamed his alleged perversion on a car accident that sparked "urges." Martinez reportedly told investigators during questioning, "I have a problem. I get these little urges... This is all I do." Another source tells Weiss that Martinez said, "I do this sometimes." more ›

A group of masked ATM robbers are on the loose across Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Park Slope, identifiable only by their signature move: splashing the crime scene with bleach. Wait, where have we seen this so-called "cash'n'splash" move before? Oh, right in that Ben Affleck movie The Town! Kids really do imitate celebrities these days. more ›

The Park Slope Library has already been closed for renovations for two years, and it's showing no signs of reopening anytime soon, frustrating many locals who say the library is an important part of the neighborhood. Think of the children! more ›

In an effort to find a break in the case of an assailant (or possibly two) who police believe has raped one woman and sexually assaulted at least ten across Park Slope, Sunset Park, and Bay Ridge, the NYPD is showing footage of victims being approached to prisoners as they're processed through Central Booking. "We have some videos that show victims being approached," Commissioner Kelly tells the Post. "We're asking people perhaps they recognize a trait or walk on an individual." more ›

Daniel Goldstein, the Brooklyn gadfly who made a name for himself in his relentless and ultimately losing battle against developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, was ultimately forced out of his home in Prospect Heights through eminent domain. True, he won a $3 million settlement from Ratner when he finally agreed to move, but, ironically, he's now in a nasty fight in his new neighborhood, where his neighbor is on the warpath over an extension he wants to build on his Park Slope house. Is he his own Bruce Ratner? more ›

A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday and accused of sexually assaulting at least three women over the last month. Federico Chamorro Yax, 22, has been charged with assault, sex abuse and forcible touching in the assaults. But police are not yet sure whether Yax is the same person as the man/men who have been terrorizing women around Park Slope for the past few months, and warn that he may be a copycat. more ›

As women in Park Slope, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge remain on edge with two, possible more, sexual assault suspects on the loose, community members are trying to reassure women by starting volunteer efforts to escort women from the subway. On the other hand, the police are telling some women to stop asking for it by wearing skirts and shorts. more ›

Following reports of a "turf war" between residents and roving bands of teenagers in Brower Park and the Park Slope Playground, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is seeking to assuage fears that his office is out of touch with the issue. "We are definitely aware of the increase in gang activity in parks and playgrounds," Hynes's spokesperson Jerry Schmetterer told the Daily News. According to Schmetterer, the DA's Gang's Bureau is "monitoring their activity. And we are in touch with the community about it." more ›