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From: Anonymous
Sent: Nov. 13, 2007, 10 am
RE: The Joy of Soap
i just unsubscribed because all you are doing lately is telling me where to shop for expensive shit i dont need. what happened to the interesting events and art shows? the things that acctually make brooklyn the place i love? i dont care about where to get a masage or buy soap. i cant aford that shit. i understand if this is the way you found to make money off hwat you do but you need to change your target audience when you cmpleetly change your content.
From: Haley Downs
Sent: Nov. 6, 2007, 10:38 am
I have been meaning to write and congratulate you for a while on Brooklyn Based. I read it religiously and I have followed up on several of your recommendations. I even took a group of 15 people to see the opera on the barge!
I am the queen of signing up for email postings and then never reading them. Eventually, I give up and spam them. But I always, always get something out of BB and I love the writing. I hope it’s going well for you.
That’s it — I just wanted to let you know that I am a big fan. Thanks for doing it!
From: Harry Matthews
Sent: Jan. 24, 2008, 12:05 am
Re: In the News
While I welcome Green Grape Provisions, I think you are a bit unkind to
totally ignore L’Epicerie du Quartier, 270 Vanderbilt Ave (just off DeKalb
Ave, behind Tillie’s). The shop is small and the stock limited, but there
is plenty of fresh produce, excellent meat, fresh baked goods, plus many
cheeses and other delicacies. True, the original owners decamped to France
(where one eventually died), but the current management has maintained the
traditional standards.
From: Bob Marvin
RE: What’s It Like in PLG?
Sent: Jan. 24, 2008, 2 pm
As a long-time [33 years] resident of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens I can say that I really liked your article “What’s It Like in PLG?” I suppose it IS “not as fact-filled as the Times’ neighborhood profiles (or recently, the Observer’s)” but it avoids the extraordinary sloppiness of the Observer piece [can a story be “fact-filled if its “facts” are wrong?] and gives a good profile of some new additions to our community.
From: Anna Jane Grossman
RE: Lonelyhearts R.I.P.
Sent: Feb. 12, 2008, 6:17 pm
Not sure about “finally”… Flint Wainess and I (a longtime Brooklyn Based fan) launched BreakupNews.com in 2004, which offers up breakup announcements — using REAL names. Our book, which was inspired by the site, is here.
From: Barbara Ann Rogers, Associate Broker, Brown Harris Stevens
RE: Amy Sohn’s picks in 10 Reasons to Love Park Slope
Sent: March 20, 2008, 1:41 pm
But the Prospect Park Boathouse is on the other side of the park, and more rightfully figure as one of the (many) reasons to love Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The southern edge of the BBG also borders PLG, but it is more rightfully considered to be in Prospect or Crown Heights…
Ed.’s Note: You’re right, Barbara, I should have pressed for more Park Slope specific locales, but I went with what Sohn picked (she added some clarifications after the email went out). Still, while the Boathouse and Botanic Garden are technically outside the Slope’s boundaries, they’re close enough in everyone’s minds (or at least mine!) to be considered part of what makes the Slope great.
