Who Is 8th Avenue's Mystery Saint?

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When someone in this nabe does something that's not totally fucking stupid, we here at FiPS like to give them a nice pat on the behind for the effort. Sometimes though, good deeds are done by men and women of mystery. One of our readers, who goes by the handle "notballerorbreeder," recently sent us some praise for a Saint-like character who has yet to be identified:

Among the myriads of churches that dot Park Slope, empty of hipsters and blonde-haired breeders who prefer to worship their funky hats and/or children, there exists a true example of religious feeling in action, and I would like to dub this invisible bringer-of-the-light The Saint of 8th Avenue.  That’s right, B’s & B’s, there’s a keeper of the flame: someone who maintains an open, lined garbage can for public use, just inside their gate.

The Slope is notorious for a dearth of places for conscientious citizens to add to our public waste problem on avenues other than 7th.  Hey, maybe that’s why those are always fucking overflowing like angry little volcanos of human folly and driving local business owners crazy!  But now, if you’re lucky enough to be near the south-east corner of First Street, there’s no more hanging on to plastic bags of dog-poop or, more likely, lobbing it into the private trash, recycling be damned, of some yuppie’s brownstone.  And if you walk half a block from your apartment forgetting that you are still holding your garbage, there’s a legit place to dump it.

Whoever this mysterious being is, I want to send a shout-out of praise – thanks for dealing with my shit!

If you are the Saint of 8th Avenue, please come forward so that we may kiss your fingertips!