Who Gives a Shit: Bedbugs in Park Slope?

Ok, so as we all know by now, I'm more afraid of bedbugs than I am of Britney Spears' hair extensions (and I am VERY FUCKING afraid of those things).

I read the article in NY Mag about the bed bugs invasion on the Upper East Side, while gagging through each page of horrific rich people extermination story. But it got me curious about exactly what is or is not going down in Park Slope?

We've all heard the Pavillion rumors, but what else is going on out there? Have any of you HAD bed bugs? Have your neighbors had bed bugs? I'm not looking for wild rumors, ppl (though those are fun too), but like some actual real world experience.

ARE THESE FUCKERS COMING TO GET ME??

[Feel free to go stealth anon in the comments if you feel like keep things all private-n-shit].

580 Caroll: Inside-n-Out

Photo: Will Femia for CurbedEnrique Norten's new, modern glass building at 580 Carroll Street is not without its haters, many of whom think charming, idyllic, landmarked Park Slope is not the place for starchitecture.

Whatevs.

Curbed featured a whole in-depth look at the building with 9000 photos, and fuck it: I LIKE IT! There: I'm on record with that shit.

I've walked by a few times over the last few months and have also been impressed, but I've never seen so many damn pics before. There's a garden! And units with outdoor space! And the place doesn't seem soul-less.

Prices start in the mid 600's for a 900sf 2bdr, and go up to 1 million+ for the ground-floor duplex with outdoor space.

(Curbed via Brownstoner)

Anyone Have $3.4 Mil? Because This PPW Place Is Lookin' Suh-Weet

News from the Curbed wire yesterday: A 2,400 square foot townhouse at 65 PPW (between 2nd and 3rd Streets, if your Google Maps finger is feeling particularly lazy) is on the market for $3.4 million.  "What's the big deal, Meredith?" you ask while twisting your handlebar mustache, "Lotsa fancy-ass places up on the Pee Pee Dubs."  Because the exact same place just sold for a paltry $1.4 eight months ago.

Curbed isn't sure what the cause is for the $2 million Corcoran markup (we're back and forth between "renovations" and "corporate hubris," leaning towards the latter), so I figured I'd ask: Does anyone have the scoop on this place?  Have any of you who live around there (who am I kidding, those people are too fancy to read our FIPS bitching) seen a metric ton of construction going on, or did some intern have a little too much fun at a DUMBO warehouse party the night before he had to put this listing into the computer?

Another peek at the floorplan and curbside photo here.  I wonder: If we all pool our money, anyone into buying this place and making it the official FIPS party house?  We'll be like Misshapes meets The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, except there'll be tons of fucking babies.  I mean tons of 'em.

Who Gives A Shit: Movin' On Up?

It's moving day for our soon-to-be dearly departed neighbors. Who will rampage through the halls with the rug rats shooting unwitting BALLER neighbors in the ass with nerf guns? Who will chalk up the sidewalks and leave love letters written in glitter glue?

Not the new neighbor, I fear.  Single woman, kid-free and loving it (?), paid in cash. Well, who knows? You BALLERS can be a juvenile crowd! 

In a now familiar spate of downward mobility for the hood's recessionista crowd, our family-friendly neighbors are selling up. Moving down the hill to a rental. Mortgage-free and loving it! But, you know what I lurve about them—aside from the fact that they hang with wine on the front stoop and act like people used to, as a rule, in Park Slope (aka decent and friendly)—they did it with a shrug and good humor. A mortgage doesn't make a house a home. 

Okay, enough of the preaching. 

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Again With The Mission Dolores Noise

photo: Jacqueline Wasilczyk for ZagatWe had quite a spirited discussion on FIPS a few weeks ago regarding the noise levels at new bar Mission Dolores (and/or the potential stupidity levels of anyone who decided to make their home along 4th Ave). Angry neighbors were drafting signs encouraging residents to call 311, and now comes news of a Community Board Meeting:

"For anyone affected by the noise coming from Mission Dolores, there will be a meeting of Community Board 6 on Monday May 24th at 6:30PM. The meeting will take place at the Community Board 6 District Office, 250 Baltic St between Court and Clinton Streets."

Again, I say r'uh r'oh. Things didn't go so well with Hotel Le Bleu and their noise complaint sitch with 4th Avenue residents over that ridiculous "game changing" roof bar they had for awhile, so it will be interesting to see how this one shakes out.

Anyone go?