Park Slope synagogue gets a designer Sukkah

Rendering by Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman

Who said the starctecture trend was over?

As of yesterday, Park Slope's Beth Elohim has a fancy new designer sukkah.

When Sukkot rolls around, most synagogues put up a sukkah, a make-shift praying shelter covered in twigs  much like the ones used by Israelites during their 40-year exile. Not the Beth Elohim synagogue.

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Cool or Not Cool: Asking Friends to Child proof Their Apts?

As we've documented, there's nothing I enjoy more than fighting in the comments with self-important BREEDERS who claim that it's RIDICULOUS and OFFENSIVE for me to assume that there is ANY self-importance amongst their group AT ALL (even as they are brilliantly illustrating this self-importance in the very comments that they are leaving).

But even a smartass BALLER like myself was pretty shocked to come across the following information on our fave blog STFU Parents: there are actually BREEDERS out there who expect people to go through all the necessary steps of "child proofing" their home, before they will come over and grace it with the presence of their bebes.

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Let There Be Light

So true this thing is $210, *but* its a lampshade featuring a hand drawn image of 5th Ave in Park Slope (you can see Miriam's from this angle).

These are reproduced from Gallery work by artist Warren Belshir:

"Warren has been documenting NYC and Brooklyn's ever changing face for 10 years. His work focuses on urban decay and renewal, and the overdevelopment of Brooklyn and New York. He hopes to capture places of New York's forgotten everyday scenes."

There's also a Coney Island one and a 4th Avenue one. too

I don't know...they're def kinda cool, but I think this shit would look waaaaay cooler in the spare bedroom of our Hollywood Hills pad in 15 years when we're like "ZOMG...remember when we lived in Brooklyn, yo!?"

BROOKLYN STUFF: Ork Poster

I bought this Ork poster like a year and a half ago...and still love the shit out of it. We got a great frame from Ikea that we put it in, and have it hanging in our Living Room.

The Ork folks have lots of other cities too like San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Philly, etc, but obvs the BK one is the best.

We love Brooklyn Stuff. Send us more cool things to feature, please.

Brooklyn in The House

Two phatty phat Brooklyn apartment tours (If your decorating style is: "dirty clothes piles to the right, clean clothes piles to the left, do NOT click either of these links. They will make you feel bad).

Kelly & Stuart Master Modern Glamour
Location: Prospect Heights
Size: 675sf

Laura's Pared Down Perfection
Location: Caroll Gardens
Size: 250sf

Sidenote: Laura is a professional organizer! You should totally call her if you need shit organized...and aren't completely poor.

(via Apartment Therapy)