Atlantic Yards Hastily Rebranded "Pacific Park" By Housing Developer

Images via COOKFOX and Reading RainbowGreenland Forest City Partners announced on Monday that they would be “rebranding” the Atlantic Yards as part of their mandatory affordable housing project. The project, which had been delayed for years, saw new life recently when the developers realized the city would actually start fining them if they didn’t live up to their end of the bargain.

The eponymous park will be designed by the same architecture firm that did Heritage Park on the site of Old Yankee Stadium. Good to see they hired old pros at prettying up gentrified neighborhoods. Paths will lead through the park and between two residential towers on either side: 535 Carlton Ave, an 18-story, all affordable housing building and 550 Vanderbilt Ave, an all-condominium, market-rate building. Renderings of the “poor people building,” included token white folk to be racially sensitive. After all, it’s 2014 and white people can be poor too. A partner at COOKFOX, called the two buildings “the urban bookends.” Wait. Does this sound like the projects to anyone else?

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Caption This Park Slope Photo!

Just when I thought I wouldn't have anything interesting to post today, I came across this riveting scene just outside the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park, which appeared to be two grown-ass adults pretending to be lizards. They were not breaking character for anyone either, not even the nice lady in scrubs who tried to ask what they were doing. I'm guessing Intro to Acting at Brooklyn College? Whatever the reason, let's have some fun with captions in the comments. 

FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you spent all week playing hooky and enjoying the fact that we're actually having gorgeous weather so far this summer, here's a round up of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Grocery Store Comedy Throwdown: Trader Joe's vs. Whole Foods

* I'm So Park Slope

* Meet The Ball Man of Prospect Park

* Cool or Not Cool: Saving A Parking Space With Railroad Ties

* [What You Should Order At...] Prospect Bar & Grill 

The Truth About Cheeburger Cheeburger Closing

Image via Park Slope StoopIf a Cheeburger Cheeburger flops in the Slope, and nobody is around to give a flying fuck, does it make a sound? 

I wasn't going to bother writing about the closing of the crappy burger-chain-that-people-only-went-to-when-the-wait-at-Bare-Burger-was-too-long, but for fuck's sake, you people won't stop sending us emails letting us know that it's donezo. So, here you go: Cheeburger Cheeburger is closed for good. And here's why...IT SUCKED A GIGANTIC DIZZLE.

Happy weekend!

[What You Should Order At...] Prospect Bar & Grill

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses. When the mood strikes, we pick one Park Slope-area eatery and recommend our favorite dish. Are we right? Are we wrong? YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.

There was this one weekend evening a few months back when I was hanging out at Prospect Bar & Grill with the lady friend. Twas early. We were sitting inside enjoying a beverage & perusing the menu, way too hungry & wondering what’d actually be worth consuming there. I was feeling particularly Brooklyn, so I went with the Kale Caesar Salad ($10) with Medium-Rare Steak ($4). As we sipped craft beers (Singlecut or Smuttynose or some shit) & waited for our food, the bar buzzed around us with mostly non-obnoxious folks. Twas the weekend.

The food arrived. The lady friend had a burger. I had my kale salad. We were comfortable with our respective gender roles. I dug the fuck into my kale salad, quickly turning my attention to the steak within. I was eager. I took a big bite. I hadn't chewed it properly. No problem. Previously, I'd been able to effectively work through my inability to properly chew my food. A little bit of water down the throat...lift the arms & open up the diaphragm...down slides the hastily-eaten foodstuffs...problem solved.

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