From the sports they should play to the careers they should pursue, young girls are often told what they can’t do. But in a new children’s book, “A Girl Like Me,” Park Slope resident Nina Crews shows them that not even the sky is the limit. Crews uses photographs of girls from multicultural backgrounds in […]
Eye on Real Estate: I took 72 photos of Central Park Slope on Saturday. I would have taken more. But sunset comes too soon in the wintertime, and historic building facades look prettiest to me when the light of day illuminates them. Brownstones seem to stretch to infinity when you stand on the sidewalk and […]
Two white Percheron horses trotted over tar bumps and metal bridges as they carried a wooden hearse through the streets of Brooklyn Friday morning. The 1800s clashed with the 21st century when F.G. Guido Funeral Home took out its 1888 Studebaker horse-drawn hearse for a procession from their Carroll Gardens home to Green-Wood Cemetery. Maria-Ray Guido, […]