OPEN THREAD: It's Passover!

Happy Passover to all our Park Slope Jews!

It's eve ONE and I'm all excited and into Matzoh (let's talk again at the end of the week). So what's on your minds? What's new?

Has everyone tried Culture yet? Sky Ice?

Are you eating Cadbury mini-eggs and just laughing at me as I continue to search for them?

Ok, amuse yourselves while I'm off in NJ eating gefilte fish.

BEST OF PARK SLOPE: Food, Glorious Food

Ok, ppl. It's time to do this thing!

We've tabulated your original suggestions, and we've come up with the top contenders in each category. Now it's up to your asess to vote, and vote HARD!

I know you btchz have a lot to say about food, so don't disappoint us! (make sure to just hit your "back" button after you vote in each category to get back to this big ole list).

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: Let's Talk Neighbors

Q o' the day: What's up with your neighbors?

Allison posted last week about how her suburb spy doesn't know shit about her neighbors, as opposed to when they mingled and cuddled and whatever in the Slope. But, uh, I'm coming up on a year in my new place, and of the ten units on my hall, I've essentially only met three neighbors, one of whom is my super (and a necessary contact for bug-killing).

I also have no idea who lives on the floor above me--though I do know if I ever meet the person who lives directly above, I'd like her to stop rearranging her furniture at four in the fucking morning every day.

So, do you know your neighbors? Do you care? Are you enjoying a life of solitude or do rad people live around you?

Photo: Park Slope Lens

FIPS Public Service Announcement: Urban Design Week 2011

Ok all you Jane Jacobaphiles, now's your chance. Got an objection, complaint, beef, grievance, unrealistic request idea on how to improve the physical landscape of New York City, well go ahead and throw those fingers into the urban planning pie.

The Institute for Urban Design (IfUD) (am I the only one who thinks they should have gone balls out and stuck with IUD?) is sponsoring a little competition. In it they are asking New Yorkers "where they see potential for improvement in the city's physical fabric, and then asks the international design community to respond to the challenges set forth by the public."

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Here's Park Slope: Culture & Sky Ice...You know You Wanna

image via Here's Park SlopeMonday was possibly the greatest day for dairy lovers in Park Slope since the old Borden's plant opened a hundred years ago: We got Culture, the only artisanal yogurt and fro-yo shop that I know of (all yogurt is cultured and strained in-house from hormone-free milk), on Fifth between Third and Fourth, as well as Sky Ice, a Thai-inspired organic ice cream and snack shop on Fifth and St. Marks, and word on the street is that they're both seriously delicious (I can vouch for that; try the Thai tea ice cream at Sky Ice, you'll plotz). Konditori, the previously-nameless coffee shop on Fifth between Degraw and Sackett, also finally got around to putting their name on their sign.

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