FIPS Broken News: Kentile Floors Sign to Be Lit Again

pic by Tim Barltett

You've seen it from the elevated F or G, you've seen it stuck in traffic from the Gowanus Express and now you can see it "lit" for the first time since the early 90's. The Kentile Floors sign sitting on top of the former flooring factory on 9th Street in Gowanus will be all alight for one night only this coming Saturday, May 3rd. 

The project is the brainchild of three local artists the filmmaker Tim Bartlett, George Del Barrio of the Vanderbilt Republic, a Gowanus-based artist coop, and Karl Meher of K2imaging also based in Gowanus. As reported by the Daily News three local artists have come together using 3-D projection technology to light the 8-story sign from another location. That means the sign itself will act like a screen with a 3-D projector placed in the office window of K2imaging about a block away.

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Zoned Kids End Up on Waitlist for Kindergarten at 321

If you’ve seen the original episode of Shit Park Slope Parents Say or, like, own kids and live in Park Slope, you know that the one and only drawback everybody acknowledges about otherwise perfect P.S. 321 is its overcrowding.

As someone who came by her 321 zoning honestly – that is, moving to the “right” side of President St in 1992 (yeah, that’s right, bitches), two years before I met my now husband/baby daddy, and 8 years before I procreated, I’m PISSED.* Do you know that there was only one decent restaurant in the whole neighborhood then? Huh? Huh?

As is well known, 321 has a history of families faking their way in to a school they’re not zoned for, using grandparents’ addresses, pretending they live at a dry-cleaners, or paying someone else’s electric bill for 3 months. 

But this year, looks like things have really gone too far, with some new online registration system, which allowed the unwashed, unzoned to fake it in even more easily, leaving 30 zoned kids on the waiting list for kindergarten in their rightful school, according to DNAinfo.

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Caption This Park Slope Photo!

Okay, so technically it's a Prospect Heights photo, since it's on the other side of Flatbush, and technically not really caption-worthy, but coming out of Franny's on Friday night, we noticed that the missing lights on the Jo, Brian and Joseph's Key Food made it look like the most bro-friendly grocery store in the 'hood. Or maybe we were just drunk. 

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