[SPONSORED] car2go is about to change the way you get around Brooklyn

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car2go is always a pleasure to drive: just take it, drive it, park it. It's fun, saves money and helps the environment.

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In Germany and Italy, in Seattle and Austin and Miami and Montreal, people have been experiencing a quiet revolution in how they get around their cities. When they have somewhere to go, they find a nearby car, climb in, and drive it to their destination. Then they leave it there, ready for the next person to use. It’s like Citi Bike but with cars, and more places to park.

And now it’s finally our turn. car2go is coming to Brooklyn on October 25. And if you sign up now, for free, you’ll get 30 minutes of free driving.

With car2go, there’s no monthly fee. Once you’ve signed up, been accepted, and get your card, you pay only for the minutes you use. You see one of their cars on the street (or find it with their app), you just get out your card, grab it and go. When you’re done, you park it in any legal, non-metered parking space in your Brooklyn home area and walk away. Check it out!

You can probably imagine the times it might be handy to grab one of these adorable, easy-to-park cars and hit the road. There are those neighborhoods that are not directly connected to each other by subway, like Carroll Gardens and Prospect Heights. (Or Red Hook and… almost anywhere.) Take an impromptu trip to Coney Island. Get your cat to the vet in no time. The possibilities are endless.

At this point, you probably have a lot of questions. Check out car2go’s website for FAQs on signing up, driving, and parking. And don’t forget to sign up now while it’s still free (Promo code: BKLYN), and get 30 minutes of free driving!

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I Smell Bacon...Kevin Bacon?

According to signs along 8th Avenue, The Following will be here on Wednesday into Thursday, and it looks like they are boarding up the former Park Slope Montessori mansion for the shoot. I watched the first season of this show, and had to DVR it so I could watch it during the day because it was too fucking scary to watch at night, and then I couldn't continue with the second season BECAUSE NIGHTMARES. Still, I'd be down for a Kevin Bacon sighting. 

Parents of 5th Graders Feeling Truly F'd in Park Slope Today

Image via ms51.orgOh my god, hold on, let me catch my breath. I’m panting. I just managed to snag one of the very last tickets to the Beatles reunion concert,  I mean the one with John and George raised from the dead! slots for a tour of local Park Slope Middle School 51.

What?

If you’re reading this blog, you very likely live in New York City. If you live in New York City and have school-age children, they might very well be among the one of the city’s million public school kids. If you don’t live in NYC and/or you don’t have kids aged 9 and above, you don’t know that your child has to APPLY to PUBLIC middle school. I know. Apply, pretty much like applying to college: tours and open houses and special tests and auditions and interviews. For ten-year-olds.

And if you have a 5^th grader and live in the neighborhood whence comes the name of this blog, today you could be truly fucked in Park Slope. Unless you were sitting at your computer at 10:57 frantically hitting “refresh,” waiting for the MS 51 tour sign-up to go live, you may have missed the sign-up. I repeat, you may not have a slot for the 51 tour.

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ICYMI: Are Dogs Getting Sick from Algae in Prospect Park?

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Late last week, we received an email from a reader telling us that two days after her dog took a swim in an algae-laden dog beach in Prospect Park, he came down with giardia. According to DNAInfo, our reader is not alone:

Brooklyn dog groups are warning pet owners to steer clear of Prospect Park Lake, where inspectors with the state Department of Environmental Conservation recently confirmed the presence of blue-green algae, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea, rashes and breathing problems in both humans and animals.

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Park Slope Craigslist Blotter

1. FREE: Shit

We had a garden this year at FIPS headquarters. Things popped up but nothing grew big. We were all disappointed. And when it came time for the harvest share people were fighting over the big ear of corn. Come on ya’ll! Even at Union Market it costs less than a dollar a piece. This poster might have what our little garden was missing. Real, pungent, chicken shit. Hot out the chicken! It’s free. You just need to pick it up in Bushwick.

2. FREE: Introduction to Dianetics

Dianetics are the rules or religion or whatever that Scientologists practice. Scientologist are known for being rich and quick to head to court over insults. They are similar to the boxing manager in Rocky V who keeps saying “touch me and I’ll sue.”

3. MISSED CONNECTION: Breastfeeding

My aversion to breastfeeding has been documented here before. I find it to be unnatural even though it’s actually the most natural thing in the world. Have I oversexualized the female body? Am I what’s wrong with the world? Maybe. Or maybe it’s residual psychological trauma from watching an 11 or 12 year old kid get breastfeed while I was waiting to catch a red eye to Chicago. This kid had facial hair starting to sprout. It was disturbing. This fellow though, our horny Craigslister, he wouldn’t have been grossed out at all. In fact, he finds it quite arousing. So if you breastfeed your baby near a waterfall in the park this week drop him a line. I’m sure he’s not a dangerous sexual deviant.

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