Hotel BPM Kinda Working Le Bleu's Turf

If Hotel Le Bleu has taught us anything, it's that trendy boutique hotels can thrive (read: barely survive) in our particular neck of Brooklyn as long as they maintain an air of mystery brought on by a bizarre neon blue glow and/or the fact that you've never met anyone who has actually ever been to their rooftop bar. So it would make perfect sense that yet a-n-o-t-h-e-r boutique hotel is giving it a go in "the Slope."

The brainchild of DJ Bijal (a.k.a Mr. Everywhere), Hotel BPM is the newest area inn-carnation trying to capitalize on its own brand of sleek accommodation for all of those people who are looking to sleep in Park Slope for a few days.

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What's *Really* Going Down On Seventh Ave

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The Real Deal real estate blog decided to forego a fucking drum circle and actually look into what the hell is going on with all the vacant storefronts on Seventh Ave.

They came up with some rather shitty intel:

"Indeed, a recent informal survey noted about 20 empty retail spaces either facing Seventh Avenue or just off it, which is an unusually high number, according to brokers, landlords, business owners, neighborhood officials and residents."

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Where Else Would You Live in Brooklyn?

If not here, where?

My man and I have been asking each other this question with increasing regularity. For a lot of reasons not the least of which is because the freight on an extra bedroom in Park Slope gives me a nosebleed to contemplate. 

And for what?

To be surrounded by the most odious (and alternately gemütlich) people on the planet?

To have my calendar overrun with Food Coop shifts and cooperator meetings of the Lake Huntington Summer Community and emergency redecorate the lobby meetings of our apartment coop?

Because, God help me, I can't see myself anywhere else?

Yeah, that's why.

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KINDERGEDDON: What Do You Mean My Four-Year-Old Is Waitlisted?

Holy crap, I can't believe there haven't been riots in the streets of Park Slope already!

Last week, dozens of parents learned that shelling out for overpriced, attractively zoned apartments and brownstones doesn't actually entitle you to guaranteed admission at local top rated public elementary kindergartens like PS 107, 295 and 39.

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PSBklyn For Sale Already?

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UPDATE: According to the owner, PSBklyn is NOT for sale. They think that perhaps they're being sabotaged?! DRAMZ!

Ok, guys: we've all been talking ad nauseum about how hard it is for businesses to stay open and profitable in this neighborhood and in this economy, but this has GOT to be some sort of motherfucking record. PsBklyn, that weirdo half Chuck E. Cheese, half regular new American restaurant that opened 47 days ago is FOR SALE.

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