[My Favorite Park Slope…] Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie

Remember a few years back when salt suddenly became a BFD?  There were those rainbow colored salts (Red Sea Salt! Black Lava Salt!) at Williams Sonoma that became everyone’s go-to last minute gift, and there was that book—literally titled Salt —in the window of every bookstore in the city?  Then Blue Marble added salt to its topping list, and for only seventy-five cents you could get it sprinkled on your ice cream?  And then that store opened in the Village, the artisanal salt store, which will sells SALT STARTER SETS and suggests that you “look at each salt up close, admiring the extraordinary range of shapes and colors, noting how they refract, reflect, or obscure light?”

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Cool or Not Cool: DJ Class for the Drooling Class

Does your little Maya, Sasha or Dante want to take a break from their drooling and defecating to drop some beats? They are in luck because the first Baby DJ class of its kind starts on Sept 18^th! They accept future beat masters fresh out of the womb, umbilical cord stub still wrapped in gauze just waiting to fall off on your carpet, all crusty and brown. That’s right, I’m talking to you, newborns! The class is for ages 0 - 3 years old. So if your Moby prodigy wants to get their funky fix on for eight sessions and you have $200 bucks burning a hole in your Mulberry wallet, go for it and be prepared to be met with “Cool!”, “What?” And “WTF?!” from luvahs and haters alike.

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you spent all week binge-watching The Wire, because you hate admitting that you never watched it and you started it on vacation and now you can't stop and you're not getting anything done and you've been neglecting everyone around you and it is really a fucking problem already -- no? just me? -- here's a round-up of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Parkwanus-sized drama at The Pines
* Methodist Hospital is planning to expand
* Park Slope's Bill de Blasio Wins Primary in NYC Mayoral Race
* Hammock Culture Swinging in Prospect Park
* Brooklyn Rent Almost As High As Manhattan...And It's All Lena Dunham's Fault!

Brooklyn rent almost as high as Manhattan...and it's all Lena Dunham's fault!

Yesterday, the Daily News reported that the price difference between the median Brooklyn rent and the median Manhattan rent is only $300, calling it the "second-smallest gap on record." And according to one guy in Greenpoint, there's only one woman to blame:

“Damned Lena Dunham,” Ammon added, referring to the creator of the HBO show “Girls,” which has been widely credited with making Greenpoint one of the hottest neighborhoods in the booming borough.

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Breaking: Overturned car in Grand Army Plaza

Despite all of the "improvements" to the traffic flow at Grand Army Plaza, it remains one of the most dangerous intersections in the city, as proven by the flipped Subaru Forrester I saw at about 4pm today, right where Eastern Parkway meets Plaza Street East. As far as I could tell, there was only one person in the car, and they had to rip the side of the car off to get him out. No doubt, some real reporters showed up after I left, and will have details on how many cars were involved in the accident. 

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