Prospect Park Gateway May Soon Get Less Uglier

Or not, actually...as they don't even *have* to build this thing. But the Park Slope Civic Council chose a winner of that competition they launched to find a better, less ugly solution for those barricades in front of the park's entrance on 3rd Street.

Ta da!

Jordan Yamada and Zaharoto won with their stone Garden entry (see above).

Though, no offense to those winning dudes, but I think that runner-up #2, "3rd Street Arches" by Ivan Himanen, is way the hell cooler:

No word from the Civic Council if this winning design will actually be implemented, but you should all know that they very much look forward to "exploring it." If I had to make a guess, I'm pretty sure that "exploring it" is code word for doing nothing, but that's just me.

(via Curbed NY)

Just In Case You Were Too Busy Having Sex in Prospect Park...

...to check Missed Connections, I come as the bearer of some extremely important information:

To the girl who was having sex with her bf in Prospect Park... - m4w - 24 (Park Slope)

Date: 2010-11-10, 6:27PM EST

I think it was like two weeks ago. I liked what I saw. Of you at least. Didn't care much for the guy in uniform. I wish I could have a go at you. You were so hot. Let me know when you ditch him and ready for a real man. I'm into doing in at spontaneous places like that.

So...that. Claim your prize here.

WTF is Going Down in Prospect Park? (Other than FIPS, that is?)

 

Okay, I was really enjoying the idea of a FIPS Slope House at that fancy mansion on 8th. Right up until I read this and started worrying that I was going to be hob-knobbing with a potential effing serial killer!!!

I like a good prank and I don't mind, say, somebody wheeling an empty, kind of creepy wheelchair into the middle of the meadow. But, uh, dismembered goat heads? Not so much.

Hot off the presses (Brooklyn Papers via Gothamist)...

Goat Head Found In Prospect Park

Last week bags containing animal parts were discovered in Prospect Park, upping the body count of slaughtered animals discovered there this year. 

According to the Brooklyn Paper (they have photos), a goat head believed to belong to one of the dismembered bodies found last week, has now been found.

The paper reports that the head was covered in orange wax, about 100 feet away from the parts found last week. The unlucky man who spotted it told them, “I was walking my dog, sending texts on my Blackberry, and then I saw it. I thought, ‘Man, is that the head?’ It’s gross.” Nearby were two plates, which were also both covered in wax, as well as food scraps, indicating a Santeria offering.

PROTEST SHIT: Park Slope Versus the PPW Bike Lane

OMGZ DO THE NEW PPW BIKE LANES MAKE YOU SO ANGRY YOU WANT TO SCREAM? DO YOU THINK BIKE LANES ARE SOCIALISM IN ACTION? RAH RAH SIS BOOM BAH BOOOOO BIKE LANES? Then you're in luck.

FIPS reader Anne wrote in about a protest against those new PPW bike lanes that're making everyone extra cranky.  It's happening next Thursday. (Anne astutely notes that we even have the best protests. We are #1, duh.)  The scoop:

Thursday on PPW and Carroll Street, there’s going to be a protest against those fucking bike lanes.  You know the ones that reduced the number of parking spaces, created a three lane road into two lanes causing more idling cars, fender benders, honking and traffic congestion, not to mention that the bicyclists don’t heed any traffic laws and zoom through lights then when you yell at them they tell you to fuck off.

This shit's happening Thursday, October 21st at 8:30 (call in dead to work and blame it on the bike lane) if you wanna go.  Bring a sign and your favorite Abbie Hoffman quote.  And don't shoot the fucking messenger, K?  I am just your humble disciple of all things Park Slope, as well as Anne's candid admission: "I must confess, my dogs McLovin and Blue like the bike lanes.  They present a nice smooth surface to poop on."

R U pencilin' it in?

Photo: votingfemale.wordpress.com

How Cute Would These Baby Baboons Look in A Bugaboo? [SOOO CUTE]

I'm pretty fucking disappointed in myself for missing cute overload animal news like this, but the Prospect Park Zoo apparently has two new baby baboons. And they've been named Azizi and Jabari (which is Egyptian for "brave" and "precious." Even more upsetting, there was a contest to name these bebe monkey bitches, and we missed the whole damn thang.

I know you guyz could have had a LOT of fun with this one, so feel free to leave any lingering suggestions in the comments. For the record, my name suggestions would have been: Gogo and Winston.

(via Gothamist)