LINKED: Rent Is Still Too Damn High

+ In Brooklyn, a grim mood as economy wavers (Park Slope Patch)

+ Culture Yogurt makes Ny Mag's approval matrix (Here's Park Slope)

+ MUST READ: Rating all 16 of the Real Housewives singles (Pop Bytes)

+ Care for some mold with that AC? (Brick Underground)

+ Vanderbilt Ave noodle bar coming along (Brownstoner)

+ Private school enrollment and tuition rising in NY (City Room)

+ "RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!" guy weighs in on market reports (WSJ)

LINKED: 5 Things You Should Know About People

+ How Slopey are you? (Park Slope Patch)

+ The lights are on again at Monte's in Gowanus (New York Times)

+ Daily Slice: Roma Pizza, Park Slope Brooklyn (Daily Slice)

+ Is joining the Park Slope Food Coop worth it? (Metafilter)

+ A Brooklyn Pr-ICE cream index (Brokelyn)

+ 5 Things you should know about people (Thought Catalog)

+ Port Authority salaries average $90,000. Anyone shocked? (NYDN)

+ Brooklyn running clubs (Brooklyn Based)

+ Costs of getting to the airport from Brooklyn with kids (A Child Grows in Brooklyn)

+ The fate of Prospect Park's five arches (NYT)

LINKED: Do Nice Apartments Help You Get Laid?

+ You'll be able to visit High Line Phase II next week! (Gothamist)

+ Take a sea plane out to the Hamptons? Don't mind if I do (WSJ)

+ There's lots of weird shit in the Gowanus Canal (Caroll Gardens Patch)

+ Do nice apartments make ladies want to have sex with you? (Gothamist)

+ Daring Brooklyn Bridge rescue (McBrooklyn)

+ Gay pride Old Navy shirts go on sale. Holla! (Fashionista)

+ Toddlers & Tiaras returns for fourth season (Jezebel)

+ BABY SWANS! IN PROSPECT PARK LAKE! (Gothamist)

+ Join the Park Slope YMCA now and save $250 (Brokelyn)

[LINKED] Is Marriage Dying & Which Banks Suck Less Than Chase?

+ Gowanus Canal clean-up (Ink Lake)

+ Antique cars on Court Street (Brownstoner Forum)

+ Home Tour! Inside The Boho Brooklyn Digs Of A West Village Shop Owner (Refinery 29)

+ Because in NY we all sunbathe naked covered in olive oil (Gothamist)

+ I WANT THIS HOUSE! Sleek midcentury modern lakehouse blends with Hudson Valley (Curbed)

+ Analyzing the Whole Foods traffic study (Caroll Gardens Diary)

+ Battle of the boroughs: Brooklyn v. Manhattan (Gothamist)

+ Bank that sucks less than Chase? (Brooklynian)

+ A video essay about the Gowanus Canal (Nathaniel Page)

+ 5 Roommates to avoid, including couples and freelancers (Brick Underground)

+ What to do this weekend (The Skint)

+ Slope Petco Unleashed Boutique Coming Along (Brownstoner)

+ Is marriage dying or just changing (Jezebel)

[LINKED] Park Slope Art Project Gets Stoop'd & How To Tell Your Parents You Got A Tattoo

+ Rock, Rock, Rockaway Summer Food Stands (Brooklyn Based)

+ Get a free badge to the Northside Festival if you wanna volunteer (The L Magazine)

+ Park Slope stoop art project (Gothamist)

+ The coolest rooftop gardens in NYC (Refinery 29)

+ The artisinal-everything trend leads to a Brooklyn-only boutique (Racked NY)

+ The NY Public Library releases an iPad app (New Yorker)

+ How to tell your parents you got a tattoo (Thought Catalog via Brokelyn)

+ Slopepocalypse! Census says babies and lesbians flying the coop (and the co-op) (NY Observer)

+ Fannie is an adorable pup who had a heart attack in Prospect Park...now she needs help paying her vet bills. FIPS Cares! (via Fido BK)

+ Dear Manhattan, you're ugly...(Swiss-Miss)

+ 10 Up-and-coming artists to buy before they get famous (Refinery 29)

+ And where the fuck can I buy your artwork? (Erica)

+ In-n-Out v. Five Guys v. Shake Shack (A Hamburger Today)

+ Boxed-in at P.S. 39: Playground at Park Slope school to be shut for three years, parents told (NYDN)

+ New watchdog site plans to keep a close eye on Atlantic Yards (Park Slope Patch)

+ Where do your cabbies eat? (Park Slope Patch)