Park Slope's Best Tweets of the Week

PARK SLOPE — Here's what Park Slope has been talking about on Twitter this week:

The neighborhood marked the 55th anniversary of the Dec. 16, 1960 plane crash at Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place.

55 Years Ago Today in Park Slope, 7th Ave & Sterling Place: https://t.co/082Mqw2umf pic.twitter.com/Ay6bnV5X3B

— Leslie Albrecht (@ReporterLeslie) December 16, 2015

On a lighter note, locals watched their block take a trip in the wayback machine to the 1970s for a TV shoot.

Park Slope returns to the '70s as The Americans films on St. John's Place. Amazing how right those cars look to me. pic.twitter.com/7QUXEGylYf

— Laurie Muchnick (@lauriemuchnick) December 11, 2015

The New York Times had new developments in a 1980 arson case.

Prosecutors are revisiting three convictions in a fatal 1980 fire in Park Slope, Brooklyn https://t.co/IThL9MOU9Q pic.twitter.com/yd9NjyqAwe

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 16, 2015

A cat that was stalking the "unicorn of birds" in Prospect Park was caught and sent to an animal shelter to be adopted.

CAPTURED: Cat that wanted to eat the only piece of beauty left in our sad world: https://t.co/TUg16yOnNd pic.twitter.com/GKrkOxNyvc

— Leslie Albrecht (@ReporterLeslie) December 9, 2015

Also spotted in Prospect Park: Santa Claus on a new-fangled NYPD sleigh.

#Santa seeing if a #NYPD motorcycle works better than #Reindeer w/@NYPD78Pct CO in @prospect_park . @NYPDnews pic.twitter.com/cfcFZVVjLk

— Erika Clark (@Erika_A_Clark) December 13, 2015

The Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District lit up Fifth Avenue with its annual tree lighting.

 

Gorgeous! Who is going to do a high 5 in front of the tree and tag it #high5fortheholidays on Instagram or Twitter and get a chance to win gift certificates from #theother5th merchants? #shopsmall #spendlocal Support your local businesses to keep our community thriving!

A photo posted by ParkSlope5thAve (@theother5th) on Dec 15, 2015 at 1:56pm PST

Not far away, the "world's largest menorah" glowed in Grand Army Plaza.

You can see the largest #menorah in the world in #ProspectPark in #ParkSlope, #Brooklyn! #happyhannukah #nyc pic.twitter.com/q9JeNqpC31

— Don't Sit Home® (@dontsithome) December 13, 2015

Brownstoner inspired real estate envy with a photo of a "palatial" 4,200 square foot apartment atop the Montauk Club.

The palatial unit in Park Slope’s Montauk Club takes up an entire floor, spreading 4,200 square feet https://t.co/gH3jwDzT0e

— Brownstoner (@Brownstoner) December 16, 2015

And the Park Slope Food Co-op assured the world that there is organic Christmas candy. But is it locally-sourced?

Yes, we have organic candy canes. Front endcap aisle 2/3! pic.twitter.com/2UeR8iTsH2

— ParkSlopeFoodCoop (@foodcoop) December 14, 2015