Walsh, Brienne. "'Crossing Brooklyn' Showcases Artistic, Demographic Diversity"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Art in America, October 3, 2014. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Yours truly (2nd correspondence), 2010–14, by Bahamian-born, Park Slope-based Janine Antoni, is a series of love letters written from the perspective of an artwork and slipped into visitors' belongings at the coat check-art that continues to speak to the viewer after the museum visit."
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Staff. "Artnet News: Starbucks Gets Artistic"Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Artnet, January 12, 2006. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Twitchell, who lives in Park Slope with his wife and young son and shows his elaborately patterned, stencil-cut artworks at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery on Fifth Avenue, has designed the packaging for four different varieties of premium coffee, which Starbucks plans to introduce every three months (the next coffee is due Mar. 14, 2006)."
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Miller, Rachel. "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Streeter Seidell"Archived February 13, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Brooklyn Magazine, June 3, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Seidell was born in Connecticut, and yes, there is a picture of baby Seidell on the beach wearing a pink polo with a popped collar posted on his Instagram. Now he lives in Park Slope, and yes, there is also a picture of Seidell and his wife with their brand new, beautiful baby boy."
Kleinman, Jacob. "The Park Slope man who saved Purple Rain!"Archived September 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Brooklyn Paper, July 28, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "One of the most exciting events of the summer is a participatory screening of Prince's classic film Purple Rain in Prospect Park — but it never could have happened without one Park Slope man. Howard Bloom saved Prince's self-produced, 1984 film from the dustbin of history with an unprecedented one-man crusade that comes into full fruition with the sing-along presentation at Celebrate Brooklyn on Aug. 6."
"Q&A with Charles Blow"Archived September 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, C-SPAN, March 15, 2011. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Brian Lamb: What part of this area do you live in? Charles M. Blow: In Brooklyn – Park Slope, Brooklyn."
Albrecht, Leslie. "Fans Want to Rename Park Slope Street for Rapper Pumpkinhead"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, DNAinfo.com, August 13, 2015. Accessed January 25, 2017. "People sometimes laughed when the rapper Pumpkinhead boasted about his Park Slope roots, but now he could get his old block named after him.... Friends and fans of Robert Diaz — the underground rapper known as Pumpkinhead who died suddenly in June at the age of 39 — hope to convince city officials to rename Degraw Street and Fifth Avenue in his honor."
Scheck, Olivia. "Sand Painter Uses Manhattan Sidewalks as His Canvas"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, DNAinfo.com, November 1, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangrum has showed his art around the globe and received numerous awards for his work, but the Park Slope resident says the donations are his primary source of income."
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Bluestone, Daniel M. (1987). "From Promenade to Park: The Gregarious Origins of Brooklyn's Park Movement". American Quarterly. 39 (4). JSTOR: 529–550. doi:10.2307/2713123. ISSN0003-0678. JSTOR2713123.
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"Henry Petroski, ‘Poet Laureate of Technology’ and Professor of Engineering and History, Dies", Duke Today, June 14, 2023. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Park Slope and Cambria Heights, Queens, Petroski turned his curiosity about the origins of the structures and objects around him into a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Manhattan College in 1963."
Yakas, Ben. "Preservation hopes fade as Grand Prospect Hall facade is demolished", Gothamist, March 3, 2022. Accessed August 6, 2023. "After months in stasis, the facade of beloved Park Slope institution Grand Prospect Hall was finally demolished this week, marking the likely end of the quest to preserve the historic venue."
"David Rees, Cartoonist"Archived April 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Gothamist, March 1, 2004. Accessed February 3, 2017. "I am a 31-year-old cartoonist. I live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with my wife. Before Sunset Park we lived in Park Slope for two years."
Christian, Scott. "Patrick Stewart Moves To Brooklyn, Becomes Coolest Guy Ever"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, GQ, August 28, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Further proof that Brooklyn really is the coolest city in the U.S., Dr. Charles Xavier himself, Sir Patrick Stewart, recently moved the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope and has quickly become one of the best things to watch on the Internet."
Milkowski, Bill. "Before & After with Drummer Jim Black; Between Motian and J Mood"Archived September 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, November 23, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Currently a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, Black had just returned from a tour of Italy with guitarist Walter Beltrami's Postural Vertigo Quintet when we sat down for his first Before & After session in August."
Chinen, Nate. "Ravi Coltrane"Archived November 26, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, March 1, 2005. Accessed January 25, 2017. "'I'm sorry about the mess,' Ravi Coltrane says at the front door of his brownstone, on a picturesque residential street in Brooklyn's Park Slope."
Porter, Christopher. "Dave Douglas"[permanent dead link], JazzTimes, September 1, 2002. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Brooklyn's Park Slope region is as laid-back as its name, befitting the serene demeanor of one of its residents, trumpeter Dave Douglas.... Douglas has lived in Park Slope for 10 years, seeing it transform from an artists' community to one of the hottest real estate areas in New York City."
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Bluestone, Daniel M. (1987). "From Promenade to Park: The Gregarious Origins of Brooklyn's Park Movement". American Quarterly. 39 (4). JSTOR: 529–550. doi:10.2307/2713123. ISSN0003-0678. JSTOR2713123.
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Paumgarten, Nick. "The Race Card"Archived July 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, November 10, 2003. Accessed August 15, 2016. "'To be perfectly clear, passing'—that is, trying to pass oneself off as white, as Silk does—'is something that has never crossed my mind,' Miller, who was brought up in Park Slope, said last week, over breakfast."
Vitale, Tom. "Transplanted Author Finds Roots in Writing"Archived August 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, All Things Considered April 8, 2008. Acceessed March 13, 2017. "In all her work, acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri has focused on the lives and struggles of Bengali-Americans.... In New York, after Akash was born, she'd negotiated a part-time schedule at her law firm, spending Thursdays and Fridays at home in Park Slope, and this had seemed like the perfect balance."
Hamill, Denis. "He Wrote the Book on City Paranoia"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Daily News, June 23, 1996. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Blauner, now a Park Slope resident, is a former New York magazine writer and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel, Slow Motion Riot, set in the world of probation officers."
Park Slope neighborhood profileArchived March 1, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, New York, extracted from a March 10, 2003 article. Accessed September 25, 2007. "Boundaries: Stretching from Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue, Park Place to Prospect Expressway."
Tucker, Reed. "All about Steve Buscemi"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, January 24, 2010. Accessed August 15, 2016. "As anyone who's seen Steve Buscemi casually riding the F train knows, this guy's one of us. He was born in this city, has fought fires in this city and, despite his success, has resisted the urge go all Hollywood on us. He still lives in a brownstone off Seventh Avenue in Park Slope and says he never wanted to relocate to LA."
Mompanek, Christopher. "Cobble thrill"Archived January 20, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, December 13, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Previously, she lived in a Park Slope townhouse with her ex-husband, actor/director Terry Kinney. She'd wanted to stay in the neighborhood, but 'finding a three-bedroom that was affordable, relatively speaking, in that neighborhood was very difficult,' she says."
Martinez, Erika. "'Artie's' Goose is 'Coked' – Sopranos Chef in Drug & DWI Bust"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, May 2, 2006. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Sources said Ventimiglia later maintained he had a couple of glasses of wine at a Long Island City art gallery opening. The actor claimed he had found a parking spot near his Park Slope apartment and had turned off his lights as he tried to pull in."
Kompanek, Christopher. "Giant-sized pad"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, July 21, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Linnell, 52, is half of veteran alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants. He's also a longtime Brooklyn resident. He and his family lived a neighborhood away in Park Slope for 10 years prior to buying the two-story, 1,500-square-foot house."
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. "Next on His Docket: A Supreme Challenge"Archived October 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 27, 2008. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Mr. Fishburne had little experience with segregation. Though he was born in Augusta, Ga., in 1961, at about 4 he moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, a melting-pot neighborhood where he played with children from many backgrounds."
Itzkoff, Dave. "Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere"Archived April 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, February 4, 2009. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over lunch at a trattoria near their Park Slope home, Ms. Gyllenhaal and Mr. Sarsgaard come across like a shinier version of That Brooklyn Couple who gave up the hubbub of Manhattan to raise their child in a quieter, tree-lined borough."
Koblin, John. "In The Night Of, John Turturro Picks Up Where James Gandolfini Left Off"Archived October 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 1, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over a recent lunch at Bar Pitti in the West Village, Mr. Turturro's trademark Queens accent was on display as he chatted breezily with the wait staff and took a reporter through the menu item by item, translating from Italian. Dressed in a fitted gray T-shirt, he had taken the subway there from his home in Park Slope."
Robbins, Liz. "Music Upstairs and Downstairs"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, March 15, 2013. Accessed January 25, 2017. "The classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, 40, has a hectic international performance schedule, but in Park Slope her husband, Jeremy Greensmith, 46, and their son, Adrian Greensmith, 11, keep her grounded. ... I'm very happy not to leave Park Slope. I grew up in Park Slope on First Street."
Wise, Brian. "Jangled by a Jingle, He Writes His Own ..."Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 20, 2007. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Mr. Hearst produced the album in a tiny bedroom converted into a recording studio in his third-floor walk-up in Park Slope, where several Mister Softee trucks can be seen lumbering by his window on any given day."
Kaufman, Joanne. "Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Frozen Songwriter, at Home"Archived November 26, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, November 4, 2016. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Before finding happiness in a century-old townhouse in Park Slope, the songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez had what her husband and frequent collaborator, Robert Lopez, described as a 'real estate porn' habit."
Wilson, Michael. "A Fancy Guitar to Sell, but Hard to Play in Handcuffs", The New York Times, December 25, 2016. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Alex Skolnick, the guitarist for the thrash metal band Testament, with the prototype of his signature guitar from Heritage Guitars, which was once stolen from him, at his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Friday."
Leland, John. "AT HOME WITH: ALEX AND ALLYSON GREY; Tuition and Other Head Trips"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 3, 2002. Accessed February 3, 2017. "For the last 17 years, they have painted in the front room of their loft in Park Slope, creating elaborate, brightly colored canvases: his massive, anatomically detailed portraits of translucent bodies; her smaller kaleidoscopic grids, dotted with invented alphabets."
Rosenblum, Constance. "A Brooklyn House With Country Roots"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 14, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "If ever a place fulfilled such a fantasy, it is the century-old robin's-egg blue house on 11th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Ms. Snyder and Ms. Cammer have lived for the past decade."
Scott, Janny. "The Brownstone Storytellers; A Colony of Writers Is Growing in Park Slope"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 15, 1995. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, author and editor, lives with his wife, Kathryn Harrison, novelist, in a brownstone a block from Thomas Boyle, writer of thrillers, who lives in a brownstone a block from Luc Sante, writer, and his wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, the same.... Jennie Fields's block in Park Slope is the hero of her new novel."
Morris, Bob. "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"Archived January 1, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 24, 2005. Accessed March 13, 2017. "A few weeks ago the news broke that Jonathan Safran Foer, the young novelist, was trading up in Park Slope, selling one home for more than $3 million and buying another for $6.75 million."
Wilson, Michael. "Eggs, Bacon and a Baseball Cap"Archived January 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 14, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, 48, is a crime novelist and an editor at Simon & Schuster. His latest book, The Finder, was published last year. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison, and their three children, Sarah, 19; Walker, 17; and Julia, 9."
Richardson, Lynda. "A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami"Archived January 3, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 14, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2022. "It is just after 7 a.m. and Carol Bellamy has been at work for more than two hours.... For someone who arrives at work every day before 5 a.m. from her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, she does not seem in the least worn out by her rigorous schedule."
Glueck, Katie. "Park Slope and Staten Island: An Unlikely Political Marriage", The New York Times, February 21, 2022. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Mr. Rose, who grew up in Park Slope, had cast himself as more of a Staten Island Democrat with a brash personal style and relatively centrist politics, and some party officials see him as a strong general election fit in the new district."
Gootman, Elissa. "A Day Without a Train", The New York Times, October 22, 2010. Accessed May 20, 2024. "But on Sundays, Mr. Russianoff, 57, Ms. Toole, 54, and their daughters, Jennie, 14, and Natalie, 11, who all live in Park Slope, dash around Brooklyn on foot, by bus and, if they are late to a soccer game, by car service."
Oser, Alan N. "Rezoning, and Redefining, Park Slope"Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, December 28, 2003. Accessed September 25, 2007. "As broadly defined by brokers marketing real estate there, Park Slope is bordered by Flatbush Avenue to the north, the Prospect Expressway to the south, Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, and Fourth Avenue to the west. The April rezoning actually extends west as far as Third Avenue on some blocks, and only as far as 15th Street to the south."
Glueck, Grace. "Art in Review; Byron Kim"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, December 9, 2005. Accessed February 3, 2017. "The most interesting works are photographic assemblages under the rubric What I See. These specific impressions of important places in his life, like the one of his backyard in Park Slope, Brooklyn, have a sweet, nostalgic poignancy."
Smith, Dinitia. "Literary Voice, Brooklyn Accent"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 15, 2006. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Perhaps the end really began when Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) and his wife, Nicole Krauss (The History of Love), bought their house in Park Slope last year for $6.7 million."
Velsey, Kim. "Dépêche-toi! '80s Band Leader Buys Beautiful J.Crew House"Archived August 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, New York Observer, March 29, 2012. Accessed April 18, 2020. "Depeche Mode founder Vince Clarke, a.k.a. Vincent Martin and his wife Tracy Hurley Martin will be enjoying a “new life” in Park Slope after purchasing the townhouse of J.Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, according to Fucked in Park Slope."
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"Litchfield Villa". Prospect Park Alliance: Official WebSite of Prospect Park. Prospect Park Alliance. 2008. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008.
Home PageArchived November 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, RobinJohnson.net. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Robin Johnson was born May 29, 1964, and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
Krell, David. Joe Pepitone, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed March 13, 2023. "Decades before gentrification began in the 1990s, the Pepitones lived in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood."
Eggers, Dave "My wish: Once Upon a School"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, TED (conference), March 2008. Accessed September 10, 2016. "In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived in, Park Slope, there are a lot of writers – it's like a very high per capita ratio of writers to normal people."
Shinefield, Mordechai. "Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly"Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, February 19, 2009. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Once very much from New Brunswick, Jersey—they've cited fellow locals Lifetime as an important influence—frontman Geoff Rickly now lives in Park Slope."
Punjabi, Rajul. "French Jazz Violinist Scott Tixier on His 'Sleep No More' Debut"Archived January 12, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, September 21, 2016. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Tixier composed ten of the twelve tracks in a swift whirlwind of inspiration, and even the cover image came together in a day, his wife and neighbors (designers and photographers) adorning his Park Slope apartment with lush fabrics and odd tchotchkes — improvisation at its best."
Park Slope neighborhood profileArchived March 1, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, New York, extracted from a March 10, 2003 article. Accessed September 25, 2007. "Boundaries: Stretching from Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue, Park Place to Prospect Expressway."
Oser, Alan N. "Rezoning, and Redefining, Park Slope"Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, December 28, 2003. Accessed September 25, 2007. "As broadly defined by brokers marketing real estate there, Park Slope is bordered by Flatbush Avenue to the north, the Prospect Expressway to the south, Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, and Fourth Avenue to the west. The April rezoning actually extends west as far as Third Avenue on some blocks, and only as far as 15th Street to the south."
"Litchfield Villa". Prospect Park Alliance: Official WebSite of Prospect Park. Prospect Park Alliance. 2008. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008.
Tucker, Reed. "All about Steve Buscemi"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, January 24, 2010. Accessed August 15, 2016. "As anyone who's seen Steve Buscemi casually riding the F train knows, this guy's one of us. He was born in this city, has fought fires in this city and, despite his success, has resisted the urge go all Hollywood on us. He still lives in a brownstone off Seventh Avenue in Park Slope and says he never wanted to relocate to LA."
Mompanek, Christopher. "Cobble thrill"Archived January 20, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, December 13, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Previously, she lived in a Park Slope townhouse with her ex-husband, actor/director Terry Kinney. She'd wanted to stay in the neighborhood, but 'finding a three-bedroom that was affordable, relatively speaking, in that neighborhood was very difficult,' she says."
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. "Next on His Docket: A Supreme Challenge"Archived October 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 27, 2008. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Mr. Fishburne had little experience with segregation. Though he was born in Augusta, Ga., in 1961, at about 4 he moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, a melting-pot neighborhood where he played with children from many backgrounds."
Bergin, Brigid. "John Hodgman to de Blasios: You'll Miss Us in Park Slope"Archived September 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, WNYC, December 11, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "To find out what's behind this mysterious magnetism, specifically in Park Slope, WNYC spoke to another well-known resident, the writer, comedian and, by his own description, minor television star John Hodgman."
Home PageArchived November 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, RobinJohnson.net. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Robin Johnson was born May 29, 1964, and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn."
Paumgarten, Nick. "The Race Card"Archived July 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, November 10, 2003. Accessed August 15, 2016. "'To be perfectly clear, passing'—that is, trying to pass oneself off as white, as Silk does—'is something that has never crossed my mind,' Miller, who was brought up in Park Slope, said last week, over breakfast."
Itzkoff, Dave. "Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere"Archived April 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, February 4, 2009. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over lunch at a trattoria near their Park Slope home, Ms. Gyllenhaal and Mr. Sarsgaard come across like a shinier version of That Brooklyn Couple who gave up the hubbub of Manhattan to raise their child in a quieter, tree-lined borough."
Miller, Rachel. "Brooklyn's 50 Funniest People: Streeter Seidell"Archived February 13, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Brooklyn Magazine, June 3, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Seidell was born in Connecticut, and yes, there is a picture of baby Seidell on the beach wearing a pink polo with a popped collar posted on his Instagram. Now he lives in Park Slope, and yes, there is also a picture of Seidell and his wife with their brand new, beautiful baby boy."
Christian, Scott. "Patrick Stewart Moves To Brooklyn, Becomes Coolest Guy Ever"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, GQ, August 28, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Further proof that Brooklyn really is the coolest city in the U.S., Dr. Charles Xavier himself, Sir Patrick Stewart, recently moved the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope and has quickly become one of the best things to watch on the Internet."
Koblin, John. "In The Night Of, John Turturro Picks Up Where James Gandolfini Left Off"Archived October 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 1, 2016. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Over a recent lunch at Bar Pitti in the West Village, Mr. Turturro's trademark Queens accent was on display as he chatted breezily with the wait staff and took a reporter through the menu item by item, translating from Italian. Dressed in a fitted gray T-shirt, he had taken the subway there from his home in Park Slope."
Martinez, Erika. "'Artie's' Goose is 'Coked' – Sopranos Chef in Drug & DWI Bust"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, May 2, 2006. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Sources said Ventimiglia later maintained he had a couple of glasses of wine at a Long Island City art gallery opening. The actor claimed he had found a parking spot near his Park Slope apartment and had turned off his lights as he tried to pull in."
Milkowski, Bill. "Before & After with Drummer Jim Black; Between Motian and J Mood"Archived September 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, November 23, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Currently a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, Black had just returned from a tour of Italy with guitarist Walter Beltrami's Postural Vertigo Quintet when we sat down for his first Before & After session in August."
Velsey, Kim. "Dépêche-toi! '80s Band Leader Buys Beautiful J.Crew House"Archived August 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, New York Observer, March 29, 2012. Accessed April 18, 2020. "Depeche Mode founder Vince Clarke, a.k.a. Vincent Martin and his wife Tracy Hurley Martin will be enjoying a “new life” in Park Slope after purchasing the townhouse of J.Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, according to Fucked in Park Slope."
Chinen, Nate. "Ravi Coltrane"Archived November 26, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, March 1, 2005. Accessed January 25, 2017. "'I'm sorry about the mess,' Ravi Coltrane says at the front door of his brownstone, on a picturesque residential street in Brooklyn's Park Slope."
Robbins, Liz. "Music Upstairs and Downstairs"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, March 15, 2013. Accessed January 25, 2017. "The classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, 40, has a hectic international performance schedule, but in Park Slope her husband, Jeremy Greensmith, 46, and their son, Adrian Greensmith, 11, keep her grounded. ... I'm very happy not to leave Park Slope. I grew up in Park Slope on First Street."
Wise, Brian. "Jangled by a Jingle, He Writes His Own ..."Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 20, 2007. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Mr. Hearst produced the album in a tiny bedroom converted into a recording studio in his third-floor walk-up in Park Slope, where several Mister Softee trucks can be seen lumbering by his window on any given day."
Kompanek, Christopher. "Giant-sized pad"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Post, July 21, 2011. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Linnell, 52, is half of veteran alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants. He's also a longtime Brooklyn resident. He and his family lived a neighborhood away in Park Slope for 10 years prior to buying the two-story, 1,500-square-foot house."
Kaufman, Joanne. "Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Frozen Songwriter, at Home"Archived November 26, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, November 4, 2016. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Before finding happiness in a century-old townhouse in Park Slope, the songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez had what her husband and frequent collaborator, Robert Lopez, described as a 'real estate porn' habit."
Albrecht, Leslie. "Fans Want to Rename Park Slope Street for Rapper Pumpkinhead"Archived February 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, DNAinfo.com, August 13, 2015. Accessed January 25, 2017. "People sometimes laughed when the rapper Pumpkinhead boasted about his Park Slope roots, but now he could get his old block named after him.... Friends and fans of Robert Diaz — the underground rapper known as Pumpkinhead who died suddenly in June at the age of 39 — hope to convince city officials to rename Degraw Street and Fifth Avenue in his honor."
Shinefield, Mordechai. "Interview: Thursday Frontman Geoff Rickly"Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, February 19, 2009. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Once very much from New Brunswick, Jersey—they've cited fellow locals Lifetime as an important influence—frontman Geoff Rickly now lives in Park Slope."
Punjabi, Rajul. "French Jazz Violinist Scott Tixier on His 'Sleep No More' Debut"Archived January 12, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Village Voice, September 21, 2016. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Tixier composed ten of the twelve tracks in a swift whirlwind of inspiration, and even the cover image came together in a day, his wife and neighbors (designers and photographers) adorning his Park Slope apartment with lush fabrics and odd tchotchkes — improvisation at its best."
Walsh, Brienne. "'Crossing Brooklyn' Showcases Artistic, Demographic Diversity"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Art in America, October 3, 2014. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Yours truly (2nd correspondence), 2010–14, by Bahamian-born, Park Slope-based Janine Antoni, is a series of love letters written from the perspective of an artwork and slipped into visitors' belongings at the coat check-art that continues to speak to the viewer after the museum visit."
Leland, John. "AT HOME WITH: ALEX AND ALLYSON GREY; Tuition and Other Head Trips"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 3, 2002. Accessed February 3, 2017. "For the last 17 years, they have painted in the front room of their loft in Park Slope, creating elaborate, brightly colored canvases: his massive, anatomically detailed portraits of translucent bodies; her smaller kaleidoscopic grids, dotted with invented alphabets."
Glueck, Grace. "Art in Review; Byron Kim"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, December 9, 2005. Accessed February 3, 2017. "The most interesting works are photographic assemblages under the rubric What I See. These specific impressions of important places in his life, like the one of his backyard in Park Slope, Brooklyn, have a sweet, nostalgic poignancy."
Scheck, Olivia. "Sand Painter Uses Manhattan Sidewalks as His Canvas"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, DNAinfo.com, November 1, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangrum has showed his art around the globe and received numerous awards for his work, but the Park Slope resident says the donations are his primary source of income."
"David Rees, Cartoonist"Archived April 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Gothamist, March 1, 2004. Accessed February 3, 2017. "I am a 31-year-old cartoonist. I live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with my wife. Before Sunset Park we lived in Park Slope for two years."
Rosenblum, Constance. "A Brooklyn House With Country Roots"Archived February 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 14, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2017. "If ever a place fulfilled such a fantasy, it is the century-old robin's-egg blue house on 11th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Ms. Snyder and Ms. Cammer have lived for the past decade."
Staff. "Artnet News: Starbucks Gets Artistic"Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Artnet, January 12, 2006. Accessed February 3, 2017. "Twitchell, who lives in Park Slope with his wife and young son and shows his elaborately patterned, stencil-cut artworks at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery on Fifth Avenue, has designed the packaging for four different varieties of premium coffee, which Starbucks plans to introduce every three months (the next coffee is due Mar. 14, 2006)."
Hamill, Denis. "He Wrote the Book on City Paranoia"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New York Daily News, June 23, 1996. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Blauner, now a Park Slope resident, is a former New York magazine writer and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel, Slow Motion Riot, set in the world of probation officers."
Kleinman, Jacob. "The Park Slope man who saved Purple Rain!"Archived September 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Brooklyn Paper, July 28, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "One of the most exciting events of the summer is a participatory screening of Prince's classic film Purple Rain in Prospect Park — but it never could have happened without one Park Slope man. Howard Bloom saved Prince's self-produced, 1984 film from the dustbin of history with an unprecedented one-man crusade that comes into full fruition with the sing-along presentation at Celebrate Brooklyn on Aug. 6."
"Q&A with Charles Blow"Archived September 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, C-SPAN, March 15, 2011. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Brian Lamb: What part of this area do you live in? Charles M. Blow: In Brooklyn – Park Slope, Brooklyn."
Eggers, Dave "My wish: Once Upon a School"Archived September 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, TED (conference), March 2008. Accessed September 10, 2016. "In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived in, Park Slope, there are a lot of writers – it's like a very high per capita ratio of writers to normal people."
Scott, Janny. "The Brownstone Storytellers; A Colony of Writers Is Growing in Park Slope"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, May 15, 1995. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, author and editor, lives with his wife, Kathryn Harrison, novelist, in a brownstone a block from Thomas Boyle, writer of thrillers, who lives in a brownstone a block from Luc Sante, writer, and his wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, the same.... Jennie Fields's block in Park Slope is the hero of her new novel."
Morris, Bob. "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"Archived January 1, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 24, 2005. Accessed March 13, 2017. "A few weeks ago the news broke that Jonathan Safran Foer, the young novelist, was trading up in Park Slope, selling one home for more than $3 million and buying another for $6.75 million."
Wilson, Michael. "Eggs, Bacon and a Baseball Cap"Archived January 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 14, 2009. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Colin Harrison, 48, is a crime novelist and an editor at Simon & Schuster. His latest book, The Finder, was published last year. He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison, and their three children, Sarah, 19; Walker, 17; and Julia, 9."
Smith, Dinitia. "Literary Voice, Brooklyn Accent"Archived March 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 15, 2006. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Perhaps the end really began when Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) and his wife, Nicole Krauss (The History of Love), bought their house in Park Slope last year for $6.7 million."
Vitale, Tom. "Transplanted Author Finds Roots in Writing"Archived August 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, All Things Considered April 8, 2008. Acceessed March 13, 2017. "In all her work, acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri has focused on the lives and struggles of Bengali-Americans.... In New York, after Akash was born, she'd negotiated a part-time schedule at her law firm, spending Thursdays and Fridays at home in Park Slope, and this had seemed like the perfect balance."
Richardson, Lynda. "A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami"Archived January 3, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 14, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2022. "It is just after 7 a.m. and Carol Bellamy has been at work for more than two hours.... For someone who arrives at work every day before 5 a.m. from her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, she does not seem in the least worn out by her rigorous schedule."
Bergin, Brigid. "John Hodgman to de Blasios: You'll Miss Us in Park Slope"Archived September 21, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, WNYC, December 11, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2016. "To find out what's behind this mysterious magnetism, specifically in Park Slope, WNYC spoke to another well-known resident, the writer, comedian and, by his own description, minor television star John Hodgman."
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