Prospect Heights Voted "Richest Looking" Amongst Nerds at MIT

 

Even though Money magazine voted us one of the best neighborhoods to live in, we're not the 'hood showing the most bling. That honor has been bestowed upon our neighboring neighborhood, Prospect Heights.

According to the New York Post, a bunch of researchers at MIT Media Lab cobbled together thousands (that's right, thousands) of non-New Yorkers and showed them Google Street views of 50 NY neighborhoods. They were asked to note which ones looked the wealthiest, the safest and the most dangerous. The survey was completed using data entered online over the course of two years. 

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We’ve Got Piper!

Image via nymag.comSummer 2013: the summer of pie pops, “Get Lucky,” and Orange is the New Black.

If you’re unfamiliar with any of these, it’s probably best that you just quietly remove yourself from civilized society.  If, however, you’ve been binging on tales from Litchfield and chocolate cream pie on sticks, you’ll be happy to know that Piper Kerman is one of us!

Piper Kerman, a.k.a “the real-life Piper Chapman,” lives right here in the Slope.  If you’ve read her memoir, you know that Kerman’s beloved fiancé Larry found them their Brooklyn home while she was in the clink (she trusted him to pick it out, sight unseen).  In an interview with New York Magazine, she gets more specific, not only confirming that she lives in Park Slope, but giving a shout-out to Pino’s.

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Cool or Not Cool: Tweens Wearing Booty Shorts

Image via DodgeandBurn.Gawker.comWhile eating a Coltrane with veggie sausage from Dizzy's, I eavesdropped on some neighborhood moms discussing booty shorts. 

"My husband would never let Sophia out of the house dressed in booty shorts like those kids."

"I don't blame him. Sexualizing little girls. So gross." 

I imagined they were talking about children twerking on the monkey bars at Harmony Playground or strutting their sassy ASSets while picking out Organic Kale with their mommys at the Grand Army Plaza farmers market. I've never witnessed those happenings, or read about it on any of my PSP daily digests, but they could happen.

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Food Fight! Hanco's vs. Peppermill Deli

Whoa. It's not often we get more than three tips about the same crazy thing going down in the Slope, but over the past 24 hours, several of you have written in about the apparent feud between Hanco's (no stranger to controversy) and it's neighbor, Peppermill Deli (who?). 

Apparently, Hanco's has placed multiple copies of the above sign in their windows, accusing Peppermill of repeatedly stealing away their employees, and therefore getting out of having to train people (how to make a sandwich?), and pay for actual ads. (Side note: Do people actual say, "Classify an advertisment?")

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Brooklyn Man Redefines the Studio Apartment

 Image via NYPost.comYes, rent prices in the city are astronomical.  Sure, it would be great to live off the grid.  Is the solution a permanent dumpster dive?  Gregory Kloehn seems to think so.  This guy’s idea is garbage—literally.  His place is a dump. 

All puns aside, Kloehn lives in a refurbished industrial-sized dumpster.  To me, that’s roughly 7 banana peels shy of being a bum.  The artist, who purchased his humble commode, uh, abode, for $2,000 spent six months tricking it out with all the luxe amenities of a 1970’s camper.  There’s a burner for cooking any item thrown in by passers by, a couch/bed with storage underneath, electricity and yes, even a toilet!  Living large, Greg!

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