Pigs are flying! CVS on 9th Street is being renovated!

If you're a regular customer of CVS on 9th Street, you'll know a few things to be true: 

1. That musky smell that hits you when you first walk in comes from the filthy carpet, that looks like it hasn't been cleaned since it was first installed.

2. They pull the seasonal candy shortly after midnight of any holiday, so you can never get discount Candy Corn or Cadbury Creme Eggs the next day. I'm sure a lot of places do this, but damn, it's annoying. 

3. If you want something off the shelf, you'll probably have to remove that rack of merchandise waiting to be stocked first to get at it. 

4. The cashiers are total nightmares. Like, detached, disgruntled, despondent dicks who spend more time gossiping about their relationship troubles than helping you. They probably could use a manager to guide them a bit, but I'm pretty sure CVS on 9th Street does not employ a single manager.

5. There's always a line at the register, no matter what time of day. Seriously, I went at 4am once to get cold medication, and waited behind 5 other people for the one dude to ring me up. 

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[What You Should Order At...] Double Windsor

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries. - Fran Liebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978)

If you've got 8 bucks burning a hole in your pocket, I can think of few better ways to spend it than on an order of the DW Fries at Double Windsor. I'm a huge fan of most everything on the Double Windsor food menu, actually. The pulled pork sandwich is killer. The mussels are top notch, no matter what the prep. The mac and cheese is one of my guilty pleasures. The Pat LaFrieda burger rocks. But the DW Fries. Sweet suffering baby Jesus, are these fries good.

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Meet Quinoa: Your Imaginary Well-dressed Toddler Daughter

There's a lot of funny shit on the internet, but nothing has cracked me up quite as much as the Pinterest board My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter. Sure. It's a mouthful. But the hyper-styled, hilariously captioned catalog photos of kids in high fashion will have you laughing for days. And while there's nothing expliciltly linking this to Park Slope, it's not hard to imagine that "Quinoa" and her best pal "Chevron" might have sourced some of their outfits at Lolli. 

Beastie Boy Mike D lives in Cobble Hill (to my dismay)

This past weekend, the New York Times profiled Beastie Boy Mike D and his wife, and gave us an inside look at their gorgeous home in Cobble Hill. After a lifetime in Manhattan, Mike is finally taking that whole No Sleep Til Brooklyn thing literally! Oh, fine, groan if you have to. Check out the whole slideshow here. All of the rooms look pretty amazing, if surprisingly staid for a rock star. But then you get to this bathroom, which is definitely my fave:

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Who Gives a Shit: Losing Left Turn Lanes on Fourth Avenue ?

image via Streetblogs.org (sans dead frowny face by moi)

I'm pretty sure everyone knows this already, but last week our very own Community Board 6 voted 18-9 against a proposition to eliminate a substantial number of left-hand turn lanes on Fourth Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and 15 Street. It would appear that Park Slopers are using Fourth Avenue more and more now to avoid traffic snafus around the shit-show traffic that can build up around the Barclay Center especially around event times.

The city is proposing to remove the lanes in order to make the giant thoroughfare more palatable to pedestrians running for their lives between red lights. The CB6 says "no way, bitches" because taking the third turn lane out of the equation would force all vehicles to merge into two lanes hence clogging up traffic by major left hand turns. So says the resolution: “A number of our members were strongly concerned that such a radical change of traffic patterns would detrimentally affect mobility and local access on a neighborhood-wide scale.”

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