Park Slope
Self-Explanatory
For ages, Ms NOLA has been telling me that I have to come to Brooklyn to see her apartment and visit her neighborhood. In a broad sense, it used to be my neighborhood, but only briefly: the summer of 1980. I rented an apartment in Park Slope and studied for the bar. When Kathleen got her own place in the fall (a studio two floors down from where we live now), I very unofficially moved in with her, and went to Brooklyn only rarely, but I kept the apartment until shortly before our wedding in October, 1981. If I liked Park Slope, I loved Prospect Park. Connoisseurs say that Prospect Park, the project that Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux worked on after Central Park, is the better creation, and connoisseurs are right. One has only to gaze at the Long Meadow to sink into a state of peace and serenity. On a sunny afternoon in June, that is.
A stroll through the western edge of Prospect Park was the last leg of a walk that Ms NOLA and I took ...
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I was so pleased to share my little corner of the world with you. Please come again when Crazy Eights is in a fairer state. Perhaps a dinner party is in order. This is an excuse for me to buy a cocktail shaker.
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June 19, 2006 03:25 PM
What a great photo. Maybe that guy is a superhero trying to protect his secret identity!
My first New York apartment was in South Slope--a real roach nest, but I do miss that park.
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June 19, 2006 06:22 PM