Random Tag Sale (??) at Old Two Boots Location

Now that Two Boots has reopened in the old Terroir location on 5th Avenue, we couldn't help but wonder what, if anything, might be happening in the old 2nd Street spot just off 7th. 

Welp! Interestingly enough, we discovered some sort of tag sale thing happening in there. Here's the helpful sign on the front door:

Anyone in the market for a broken keyboard?

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Principal of School for Gifted and Talented Opens Mouth Inserts Su Pie

As we told you in late September, parents of 5th graders are in the throes of the highly competitive, stress-inducing, public middle school application process, spending October and November going to all those tours and open houses for which they fought hard to get spots. On Tuesday, there was a doozy of an open house at Brooklyn School of Inquiry, a highly selective school for the gifted and talented, which only last week DNAinfo reported was the most difficult school to get into, accepting only 2% of the kids who applied for sixth grade last year. Nearly 200 parents and their 10 year olds showed up to hear about the Bensonhurst school, many from Park Slope’s PS321, PS39 and PS10, for what may only amount to 12 open spots, at most, next fall. 

Welp! They got way more than they bargained for when Principal Donna Taylor responded to a question about foreign language instruction at BSI by saying, "In New York City, if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going to clean your own house." She also said that BSI is "the whitest citywide school," without suggesting that this was a problem, or that she had interest in increasing the school's diversity. Needless to say, people were PISSED.

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FIPS Broken News: Skinned Goat Heads Found Hanging Over 5th Ave. Lamp Post

Photo credit: Katherine Hurd

While this FIPSter lost hours and gained several gray hairs waiting on line to return something at the Old Navy at Atlantic Center, exciting things were happen in the South Slope yesterday -- two skinned goat heads attached by a string (a shoelace?) were flung over a lamp post on the corner of 9th Street and 5th Avenue, grossing out pretty much everyone.  

According to DNAInfo, police arrived around 11:30 a.m., but it was a driver from a Continental Car Service who took matters into his own hands by climbing a ladder, knocking the goat heads down with a stick, and then throwing them in the garbage. No word on whether he's single, ladies!

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Top Five Reasons Why Park Slope Residents Will Not Get Ebola

via @KoolrPix/Twitter

Unless you've been trapped in a closet for the past 24 hours, you are probably well aware that the first case of Ebola has surfaced in New York City. Long story short, Dr. Craig Spencer, a 33 year old Harlem doctor who who recently treated Ebola victims in Africa while volunteering with Doctors Without Borders, was monitoring his own conidition and immediately called the authorities when he developed a fever on Thursday morning. What's got everybody up in arms are reports that he felt "sluggish" in the preceding days, but still went bowling in Williamsburg on Wednesday night.

Naturally, everyone is all EHRMAGEHRD, I MIGHT GET EBOLA BECAUSE ONE NEW YORKER HAS IT AND HE WENT BOWLING AND TOOK THE SUBWAY AND CALLED AN UBER AND WHY DID HE DO THAT WHEN HE FELT SLUGGISH!!!

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[FIPS WAS (ALMOST) THERE…] Neil Diamond's Surprise Concert at Erasmus Hall High School

Sigh. I was so close! Last week, we told you that Neil Diamond would be playing a surprise concert somewhere in Brooklyn on Monday, September 29th. The surprise venue turned out to be Diamond's own alma mater, Erasmus Hall High School at Flatbush and Church. It was first come, first serve, with doors opening at 5PM for a 6PM show. 

At the very last possible minute, a friend of FIPS texted me and said she was there, could get me in, and I should haul ass to Erasmus Hall. Unfortunately, despite what HopStop said, it did not take me 27 minutes to get from Union Square to Flatbush and Church, and I ran in just in time for the encore reprise of Sweet Caroline. Oh well. I can console myself with the fact that he did not sing America, and the fact that at least I got a copy of that sweet poster. I will never not laugh at "In Person and Live." 

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