SMALL COOL, PART DEUX

Thanks to all of your clickity click clicking, our asses made it past round one in the Apartment Therapy's Small/Cool contest!

Yay!

Now we gotta deal with a sudden death elimination round in order to move on and the only things standing in our way are Jessica, Eli and one brown dog. Needless to say, I want to CRUSHTHEMCOMPLETELY.

Voting will start again tomorrow (still not sure if that means midnight or whenever the Apartment Therapy editors wake up, but I'll keep you posted).

Needless to say, we'll need your help again. If you don't already have an Apartment Therapy account and shafted us on the last vote, now would be a good time to get one (you'll need one in order to actually vote). If you *do* already have one (b/c, you know, you rule and love us more than all those other mean people), get ready to clickity click AH-GAIN!

Stay tuned (and THANK YOU!).

HELP!: SMALL COOL, BTCHZ!

UPDATE: voting is now closed. If you voted for us: THANK YOU! If you didin't THANKS FOR NOTHING!

WHOA, our apt is up on Apartment Therapy's Small Cool Contest page!

GIMME A THUMBS UP, YO!?

PLLLLLLEAAAASE. Ok, you have to register with Apartment Therapy in order to do so, and granted, that IS a gigantic pain in the ass, but don't you love me long time???

Clickity click on over there and get our ass into the finals! I'll be your BFF 4evs!

NOTE: You can only vote till 7pm on Friday, April 23rd. So hurry it up, pls!!

Who Gives A Shit: So *Is* Park Slope Really The Best Place to Live in NYC?

Now that Nate Silver-n-New York Magazine says it is, what say you?

Here's where I've lived in NYC: the Financial District, Tribeca, and Greenwich Village. Greg briefly lived in Murray Hill (Gaaaah. Bad memories! Make it stop!), and I lived with my aunt on Long Island for 6 months when I moved here and didn't yet have a job. By FAR, Park Slope has been my fave. I mean, we bought a fucking apartment here, so yeah: it def got my vote.

But you people live here too, so WTF do you think?

Is it a worthwhile tradeoff? Stroller mafia for Prospect Park? Cooptards for beautiful brownstones?

Is Park Slope the best place to live in NYC???

p.s. how fucking funny is it, that in the photo NY Mag used as a respresentation of Park Slope, GORILLA FUCKING COFFEE is pictured!!?? Seriously, look here.

New York Magazine: We Demand A Retraction

Nate Silver, a statistician known for his uncanny accuracy, has apparently declared Park Slope to be the #1 neighborhood in all of NYC in this week's New York Magazine, just behind the Lower East Side, Sunnyside, Queens and fucking Greenpoint, for chrissakes.

Nabes, according to the Daily News, were evaluated according to "a complicated statistical formula that factors in everything from diversity to safety to nightlife, giving housing affordability more weight than any other category."

I'm telling you now: THIS WILL NOT STAND.

Isn't this place already overrun with enough assholes? Now we need to worry about a new wave of assholes who are probably packing up to move here right now because of this new designation alone? 

Need I remind you, New York Magazine: WE ARE AN OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED TOXIC WASTE ZONE. We are home to some of the most sanctimonious people in the known universe. We shut down disgracefully early. We are overpriced and full of ourselves. You can't count on your favorite coffee joint being open on a Saturday morning because the staff may stage a mass walkout. As one lifer told me last week, "we got no pulse anymore." In short, we are despicable in so many ways I've lost count, so please, PLEASE: don't move here!

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: WHAT'S YOUR LIVING SITCH?

A couple of recent Times pieces about housing in New York have me curious: what's your living situation?  Is anyone voluntarily destroying his/her sex life by living with parents on the cheap, or doing the (apparently illegal) apartment-as-sardine tin with a bunch of others?  Or are you all real live grown-ups with your own places?  (Related: Nothing charms a single New Yorker as much as a dishwasher and in-house laundry.)

Personally, I share my place with a couple of actors.  While I'm obviously jetting the hell out of there to my own space the second I can afford it, I have a decent apartment and I've never had it interfere with, um, personal matters.  And, even though I suppose I could, I don't live with my folks.  (Also related: This is probably the only reason they still love me.)

BALLERS, DINKS, BREEDERS with 2.3 perfect children, tell me in the comments!  And feel free to go stealth anon if you don't want that Coop chick you've been courting on OKCupid to know that your mama's still washing your skivvies.  You just haven't told her yet, I'm sure.