LINKED: How to Spot A Hoarder

+ A colorful family brownstone in Park Slope (Apartment Therapy)

+ Sign the NY Paid Sick Leave petition (Change.org)

+ My Target Town: NYC (A Bullseye View)

+ A Masterplan for taking back control of your life (Behance)

+ Interview with Matt Barclay at Bierkraft (eat! drink! snack!)

+ Smile, you just stole an iPhone (Animal)

+ New Italian for South Slope (Brownstoner)

+ How to spot a Hoarder (Brick Underground)

+ Contamination chart for the Gowanus Canal (Pardon Me For Asking)

+ Starchitect Confessions: Richard Meir in the house on Prospect Park West (Curbed NY)

LINKED: The Cool Girl Shops of Brooklyn

+ Self-Defense classes introduce NY women to martial arts (Well+Good)

+ A Day in Park Slope (Time Out NY)

+ Park Slope's hidden food scene (Brooklyn Exposed)

+ The Insider: Apartment for one in Cobble Hill (Brownstoner)

+ The Cool Girl Shops of Brooklyn (Gridskipper)

+ McDonald's to replace KFC on 4th Ave (Here's Park Slope)

+ Cell phone service is happening for six subway stations next week (Daily Intel)

+ Pondering Sunset Park rezoning at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (which is actually quite beautiful) (Curbed NY)

+ No questions asked amnesty for kids library fines (Brokelyn)

+ A Doorman speaks...about your kids (Brick Underground)

LINKED: A Green Stoop Sale

+ If you're into stoop sales-n-shit, head on over to the corner of 6th Ave and 15th street...all proceeds go to the 6/15 community garden (615green.org)

+ A compendium of unique spaces in Brooklyn (Laughing Squid)

+ An NYC grafitti map (WNYC)

+ 5 reasons to love the Brooklyn Sewing Collective (Brokelyn)

+ Ask an Expert: How to get top dollar on your sublet (Brick Underground)

+ About that barking dog in your building (Brick Underground)

+ Annnnd, way the hell more iPhone thefts. GRRRR! (Brooklyn Paper)

+ 5 easy apple picking adventures close to the big apple (Gothamist)

+ Marty Markowitz is going nowhere (NY1)

+ Making noise under the BQE (Brownstoner)

+ Comforting food from New Zealand (WSJ)

[LINKED] Can A Beard Get You Laid?

+ Park Slope mother's healthful treats a booming business (NYDN)

+ Can a beard get you laid? (Chicago Mag)

+ A way to earn quick cash for everyday skills (Brokelyn)

+ New website seeks renters who know exactly what they want (Curbed NY)

+ 10 signs of a user-friendly co-op board (Brick Underground)

+ Ozzie's on 7th ave is closing...here's why (Brooklyn Paper)

+ PPW bike lane haters explain why they think it sucks (Gothamist)

+ Hyperlocal Media: Patch's future in question (Brownstoner)

+ Addressing the rodent problem near Atlantic Yards (Brownstoner)

+ Brooklyn's first Fairfield Inn & Suites opens in Gowanus (Brooklyn Eagle)

+ Cheapest soda machine in Brooklyn? (McBrooklyn)

KITCHEN ENVY: JOHN TURTURRO IN THE WSJ

The Wall Street Journal recently showed up in John Turturro's Park Slope kitchen to film a video about making pasta (and, as an aside, talk about his new documentary film about Italy).

Despite the video not being NEARLY as entertaining as any of the My Drunk Kitchen series' offerings, I did leave with three things:

1. Kitchen envy: giant windows, double ovens, huge fridge... it's what dreams are made of.

2. A recipe for Spaghetti Pomodoro al Crudo

3. Jeanine Garafolo makes pasta?  COOL COOL COOL.