NY Philharmonic Yanking Outdoor Concerts?

We recently received this email from a FIPS reader:

I got this message from John Langan from the Prospect Park Alliance:   "As you may have heard, the New York Philharmonic is unfortunately unable to present its free concerts in the Parks this summer -- including Prospect Park. This is very disappointing, of course, and we are hopeful the Philharmonic will be able to resume their performances next year." No explanation.  I checked the website for the Philharmonic and there was not a word about it.  

Bum. Mer. 

Anyone have the scoop? 

De-crapify the Park, tomorrow

IMAGE VIA ENDALE ARCH

Be good to Mother Nature--at least, the highly managed version of it we Brooklyners get to see.

Good-hearted BK blogger, Marie Viljoen, of 66 Square Feet, is organizing a Litter Mob tomorrow to unburden spring shoots from oppressive Utz bags and deflated soccer balls at Prospect Park:

* 9 am

* Corner of East Drive and Center Drive

Volunteers will be pulling schmutz from the Park's Midwood section, the last bit of forest left in BK. Grabbers and gloves are provided.

Dog Gets Goosed in Prospect Park

Luckily for us, an anon FIPS reader was walking by Dog Beach in Prospect Park this weekend when all hell broke loose...over a goose.

Apparently some amorous pup developed an uncontrollable crush on one of the few geese left in the park that hadn't been executed in a gas chamber. And this pup fell HARD. So hard, in fact, that he dove into the lake and took off after the Goose.

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Attack of the Kites!

Anywhere from one to a small group of people have been arrested this week for flying incredibly loud kites in Prospect Park. Adults, children and grandparents alike were screaming, crying and cowering in fear, as colorful structures recreating sounds of war and lawn mowing zoomed over their quivering bodies, most of which were lying on the grass in the fetal position. Many are now permanently deaf, which prosecuting attorneys are calling “deadly force” as they prepare for the upcoming trials against these kite-flying degenerates.

Ok, I lied, none of that is true.

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Fuck 'Breeder Central!' Park Slope is Rebranding as Sin City

Jeez! We take the weekend off and we miss breaking the biggest scandal to hit Park Slope this week. Maybe even this year!

On Friday, as FIPS was moments away from bidding adieu to our life-sized FUCKED banner, news broke that the leafy, stroller and Prius-cluttered streets of our upwardly mobile (the Post called us “posh”) neighborhood were at the epicenter of a humongous drug bust! And we’re not talking any old Mary Jane, there goes your weed delivery guy kind of bust…we mean serious drogas. Like $1.5 milly plus in heroin and coke serious.

Shhheeeeeittttt! I didn’t know we had it in us.

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