FIPS JUICY: BEST STORIES OF THE WEEK

In case you've spent all week recovering from Halloween weekend or watching early stand-up vids of Zach Galifianakis, here's a quick wrap-up of juicy FiPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Cool Or Not Cool: Letting your dog pee in the street?: A FiPS reader sent us an account of a run-in that he had with some neighbors over where his dog peed in the street. We posed the question: where is it cool to let your dog pee? And you guys went NUTS in the comments.

* Is Ozzie's Turning into a Starbucks?: Because that's what we need: A Starbucks near another Starbucks. 

* The New York times likes us! They really (sort of) like us this week!: This week the New York Times gave Park Slope not one, but TWO giant pats on the ass: one for the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company, and the other for new Slope restaurant Blueprint. Well done, PS.

* Vexed in Park Slope: 1904 Firebug edition: In a brand new column dreamed up by FiPS super writer Ursula, we report on news that happened in the nabe in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and compare it to similar shit that's going on today. 

* Cool Or Not Cool: Muni-meters on 8th Avenue?: The cost of parking is going up, folks. But at least we'll have something to do with all of those Sacagawean coins we've got lying around...

* Park Slope Signage: Is this your dog's shit?: A Park Slope resident was so irked about constantly finding dog shit in a nearby tree pit, that he or she typed up a sign, collected the shit into a bag, and tied it to a tree for the dog's owner -- and the world -- to see.