5 Things: Street Clean-Up Event and Queer Salon

1. Street Cleaning Event
Pick up a broom, grab a glass of lemonade, and join your neighbors as we sweep the streets to clean our neighborhood, and our planet. Volunteers from the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force will be on hand to teach tree care essentials. Coffee and donuts will be served, care of The Prospect Place of Brooklyn Block Association. 10:30 A.M - 12:30 P.M., meet at 269 Prospect Place, between Vanderbilt and Underhill (Look for a table in the middle of the block with volunteers ready to get you set-up.)

2. Women's Self-Defense Seminar
You will learn how to utilize momentum, leverage and skill against an attacker. The seminar will start with a discussion on awareness and prevention followed by hands-on instruction on self-defense techniques. Participation fee: $15.

3. Open-Toe Peepshow Queer Salon
The Opentoe Peepshow is a monthly salon featuring four queer artists. It's presented by Heels on Wheels -- an all-femme-powered working-class led, multiracial, and anti-oppressive-focused arts and cultural organization who showcases live performance and offers artistic and social justice workshops by diverse, queer feminine-spectrum artists who work in theatre, music, multimedia, performance and literature.

4. Brooklyn Baby Expo
Are you a new parent? Are you looking for a gift for a new parent? Then come on out to the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Baby Expo – Sunday June 2, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the International School of Brooklyn (477 Court Street) in Carroll Gardens presented by A Child Grows in Brooklyn.

5. Move the car
Alternate side parking rules will be in effect Monday, so grab a Tuesday, Friday spot if you can. The next suspension won't be until July 4.