Sandy Relief In Action At the Armory [UN-F'D IN PARK SLOPE]

Caught on film so it can't be refuted: Park Slopers doin' a whole lotta good this morning and afternoon at the Park Slope Armory on Eigth Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets. Tens of volunteers showed up by 8 AM to unload 14 tons of Sandy relief supplies bound for three separate locations off an 18-wheeler. A third of the supplies stayed at the Armory, another third were bound for Red Hook, and another third were headed to Sunset Park.

Your fellow do-gooders in action, friends.

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BREAKING: Murder on Butler St. at Fourth Avenue This AM

According to multiple sources I interviewed, this morning around 6:30 or 7:00 A.M., several shots were fired resulting in one casualty and others possibly wounded.

Details are still coming out, but here's what I know from reporting near the bodega on Fourth Avenue at the corner of Butler Street around 10 A.M. Butler Street is still closed off and blocked by multiple police vehicles, and according to the NY1 reporter to whom I spoke, the body has yet to be moved. He also said there's a possibility it's linked to a club down the street, and there are witnesses from several of the surrounding buildings.

FiPS was there! (In that we-came-after-the-murder-happened way. Promise, NYPD.)

If you know anything more, let us know. We'll update as we know more.

The Salads Are Coming! The Salads Are Coming!

 

FiPS takes credit for a lot of things: the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the existence of corgis, the release of the Mitt Romney's secret footage (and this video, too), etc. Some things we probably shouldn't -- though David Corn totally is our Coop spy. But Just Salad taking up residence in Park Slope? That one's alllllll us, yo.

We told you last week that Just Salad was coming into Seventh Avenue space for the former, much-hated Parkslope Eatery. When the place finally tanked in June (there is a god?) we cried out, Hark! Salad cometh?! and our prayers have been answerd...answeredth!

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Vomiting Pretty Woman, Your Prince Awaits [MISSED CONNECTIONS]

Image via www.classescasesandchaos.blogspot.com

Oh, Park Slope. In this cold, horrible world in which we live -- the one in which I contemplate kicking your strollers and you often consider shoving me off my bike in traffic, admit it -- sometimes you find the warm-fuzzy in situations. Especially situations involving vomit.

Just like this Craiglister, for instance:

m4w, 22, of Park Slope writes:

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MOTHERLAND: Amy Sohn Has a New Book, and Nothing to Apologize About

Author Photo: Charles Miller

Park Slope's Amy Sohn is a veritable celebrity 'round these blog parts--for better or for worse. She's been lauded here, she's been bitched out, but the facts are that she has an entire category of posts dedicated to her, a strong voice and byline in the Brownstone Brooklyn community commentary, and career as a writer to back up all the pissing, moaning, and noise she has to block out, whether it's coming from a Food Coop Meeting, a baby tambourine class, or on the comments of FiPS.

Yesterday, Sohn released Motherland, a follow-up to her widely-read (and hotly-debated) Prospect Park West, which satirized and tore apart our beloved Breederlyn as we know it. Oh, yeah, and there was a shit ton of sex and lying and crying babies, and also more sex. Motherland circles back to the ladies in PP Dubs to see if their lives and marriages are still as miserable and fucked up.

Because we can't resist a chat with Amy Sohn, or the opportunity to get a rise out of people, I talked to Sohn 'bout the new novel, some sexy stuff, and why she's just not listening to most of your opinions.

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