Park Slope is home to a popular superhero store where you can stock up on supplies to help save the day. As HannahKliger shows us, the store is a front for a secretive operation just for kids.
- On Fifth Avenue in Park Slope stands a store like any other - if, of course, you're looking for a good disguise, or the element of surprise. "We have standards like invincibility, and omnipotence, and speed of light," explains Joshua Mandelbaum, picking up cans of the superpowers."Honestly, we need superheroes because when the villain attacks, it's always here, it's always here first!" Mandelbaum tells CBS2's Hannah Kliger.
But when you're done shopping for anything you may need to save the world, there's a secret door that takes you to the back of the building, housing a writing center. And that's where the real magic happens. , a nonprofit literacy program for young people from underserved and marginalized communities. It's a venue for field trips, after-school programs and summer camps."They collaborate on creating a story, they vote on characters, they vote on setting," he says.
Ten-year-old Cluny Smith was trying on a black and gold superhero cape."I like fiction more, but I especially like making up characters," she says. Free for qualifying students, the organization publishes and sells work by these young writers, and you'd be surprised by how popular they've become. "We want our students to know that what they have to say is important and that they are authors. And seeing it in print has that power," Mandelbaum adds.Have a story idea or tip in Brooklyn? Email Hannah by
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