I Want My Craft Services

Okay, I can deal with the fact that we are picturesque and film crews like to take over our paltry number of parking spots for their perpetual location shoots. Yes, I can put up with Martin Scorsese or even, marginally, Bored to Death.

But Banana Republic?

Really?

Shouldn't the residents of Park Slope be getting SOMETHING in return for all this inconvenience? Like, oh I don' t know, MONEY for OUR neighborhood?

Or in the absence of monetary benefits, how about you feed our hungry. I say, let us walk brazenly up to your food tables and forage for whatever the fuck we want. 

It's the least you can do.

HEADS UP: MOVE YR PRIUS, YOU ENTITLED YUPS

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A heads up from our buddies at Neighborhoodr: Park Slope -- "Bored To Death" will be filming in Slope(ish area) on Tuesday, April 20th (stop your 420 giggling, you people are supposed to be adults).

Now, I'm not telling you this so you can skip work and go squeal and hold up signs to celebrate your Jonathan Ames fandom (though I know some of you have already opened up your mail clients to tell your bosses that your clairvoyant self sees an elephant stampede rendering you unable to attend work on Tuesday).  Rather, I'm giving you the FYI because if your car is parked on Bergen between Fifth and Sixth, your ass will be illegally parked on Tuesday.  And I know, from this hilarious sign, that some of you won't be moving your hippie-mobiles until alternate side strikes:

"People who park here don’t necessarily live on this block & won’t see these signs. They will believe they are legally parked until 7:30am on Tues. If you care as you say you do about inconveniencing the neighborhood you wouldn’t wait until 3 days prior to put up signs. A minimum of one week so people would see it when they parked would be considerate."

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Shout Out To Roadify.com

They were out on 7th Ave yesterday spreading the word: WELCOME! Roadify gives commuters a way to exchange information with each other to help with parking and public transit.

Roadify is a platform for sharing traveler intelligence. It helps you find parking, catch a train, make a flight, find the best driving route and more, by giving you easy access to real-time information from other commuters and transit data sources (like Google Transit, Traffic.com, MTA, etc.). We think of Roadify as the first comprehensive “social transportation” company, combining social networking with a wealth of published transit information.

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