Holy Stolen Plutonium! There Was A DeLorean on 5th Avenue Last Night

Guys, I was picking up some laundry last night when I noticed there was a fucking Delorean sitting on 5th Ave at 20th street. As in, the car from Back to the Future. As in, “if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?” As in, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” As in, I just lived out a childhood dream on a Sunday night in Park Slope. 

Why was there a Delorean in the Slope? Valerie Randazzo, owner of Leathernecks Tattoo, is having a fundraiser to raise money for Huntington's Disease by having people stop by to take photos with it (and yes, it was one of the actual cars from the movies). The money will go to the Terrence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center's HD unit. 

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FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you spent all week catching up on everything you blew off all summer, here's a roundup of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Berg'n: The Great Takeover?

* Cool or Not Cool: Using Your Kid's Class List to Promote Your...Whatever

* Local Outfitter Is Taking You Hiking and Skinny Dipping

* Chloe Sevigny Is In The 'Hood

* 2 Duck Gooseious

Who Needs An Apartment?

Berg'n: The Great Takeover?

Full Disclosure: I've yet to see Guardians of the Galaxy. I couldn't care less. I know. Amazing Marvel adaptation. Bradley Cooper plays a Raccoon. Vin Diesel revisits the role he's become famous for...a talking tree. I get it. The Guardians are a ragtag group guardianing our galaxy or some shit. There's an orb. Somebody wants to take over. There's always somebody who wants to take over.

Google wants to take over the internet. Transplants want to take over Park Slope. ISIS wants to take over pretty much everywhere. In the Brooklyn culinary sphere, the boom of hipsters & depression over the past decade has led to beer halls taking over the Brooklyn landscape. It's no ebola-sized infection, but in terms of square footage that I'm not willing to research & calculate, it's still notable.

I think back to 2008. Lil Wayne's The Carter III was about to sell a million copies in week one. WEEZY TAKING OVER. In this climate, Jonathan Butler & Eric Demby decided to start some thang in Ft Greene called the Brooklyn Flea. They added food. Locals flocked. Hipsters flocked. Six years later, they've become the guys behind a flea empire that expanded to Williamsburg & DUMBO, added "Smorgasbrewery" events at Brooklyn Brewery, expanded to D.C., failed in Philly & took over the Park Slope market at PS 321. Now, a half year after the initial anticipated March opening date, they've joined forces with the beer hall movement to open Berg'n, a Crown Heights beer hall on fuck you guess which street.

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Park Slope Craigslist Blotter

BARTER: Boat

I heard on one of those history channel shows, where people buy/sell garbage, that “boat” stands for Bust Out Another Thousand. So I guess if you’re going to buy this, or trade in the seller his preferred pick-up or motorcycle, you should know it’s going to be a commitment. The yacht life isn’t all champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

FOR SALE: Football wall decor

It is football season and these are being advertised as good for a “Man Cave.” I don’t know. It’s two little boys playing football in ill-fitting clothes. It’s really closer to a Coppertone ad than a Man Cave decoration. You’re not going to have the bros over to see if this little kid’s shorts are going to get pulled down.

FOR SALE: Bowling wood

I don’t care if it’s the cross Christ was nailed to, $400 is a laughable price for some reclaimed wood. These aren’t finished tables. You’ll just be getting pieces of a bowling alley lane to do what you want with. They have some pictures and they do look nice, though. So, if you’re interested, see if you can negotiate the price point a bit.

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