Park Slope parents may swear by Montessori toys and organic snacks — but come Halloween, it’s all plastic fangs and candy corn on the Brooklyn neighborhood’s tree-lined streets. And in this storybook version of spooky suburbia, where every stoop tells a tale and every shriek of laughter echoes off the brownstones, there’s one particularly haunted … Read more
Michael Ring was organizing a 100-mile bike tour in Putnam County in 2014 when he started falling, dropping things and tripping over stuff — it was happening so often that his then-boss took notice. “He took me aside and said, ‘I don’t talk about this, but I’m a cancer survivor. I’m saying that to scare … Read more
Libra author, straw hat enthusiast and father of new journalism Truman Capote maintained, “New York is not a city, it’s a world.” The roughly 340 neighborhoods found within this world, this sprawling, five borough constellation, are defined as much by their physical properties and energetic feel as they are the people who inhabit them. … Read more
From the secret swirls of lust and a mother’s guilt to navigating the world of open marriages, one Park Slope mother is bearing it all in a new memoir. Molly Roden Winter, 51, first delved into polyamory in 2008 after meeting a man named Matt in a bar after a hard day, when all she … Read more
At 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Carlos Sevilla and his date, Kriti Shrestha, finally secured a table for two at Masalawala & Sons. It was no easy feat. They’d been trying to snag one since September, when the Indian restaurant — with its Bengali dinner party atmosphere — first opened in a former Park Slope bakery and … Read more