Rumorsville: Was a Dad Arrested For Leaving his Kid & Dogs in the Car While Shopping at the Food Coop?

It's been quite a week for Park Slope parents. While many of you thought that leaving your kid at YMCA while you get a mani/pedi was not cool, at least those parents made sure SOMEBODY was watching their bebes. Apparently another Park Slope dad had some alternative ideas about childcare: i.e. just lock your kids up in the car!

An anonymous tipster sent along the following account: 

I was walking down Union on February 3rd around 1PM when I noticed some major commotion. A firetruck and two cop cars were near the Food Coop. They had a "slim-jim" and were frantically circling a parked van. At first I thought, "Oh, thats nice to see Tax dollars hard at work! A firetruck and three cop cars just to help some idiot get the keys out of their car?!" Then one of the firemen crawled in through the driver's side door. He unlocked the sliding side door and out came two frantically barking dogs on leashes.  I thought to myself, "that's so fucked up that you would leave your dogs in the car while you run into Union Market!"

Then it got worse. 

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The Food Coop's Kid's Variety Show Only Wants *Real* Singers

As Instagram user KimberlyBeth so perfectly puts it, "No lip-syncing. Even the variety show is all-natural."

[Thanks to our fab FiPS writer Meredith for passing this gem along!]

Another food coop opens up near Fort Greene

Photo via Greenehillfood.coop

What's better than one local Food Coop for us to mock relentlessly?

A second food coop! The cutesy named "Greene Hill Food Coop," whose member-run supermarket opened this past weekend, is located at 18 Putnam Avenue between the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods.

As it turns out, the organic apple doesn't fall far from the local, sustainable tree. Just like the Park Slope Food Coop, the new shop will require members to work 2-hour shifts every month for access to its organic produce, meat and dairy.

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MISSED CONNECTIONS: Haaaay, Single Co-op Boys!

You a single, a Park Slope Food Co-op dude looking for some action? Out yourselves! Wear a special armband or something! Corrall yourslves near the organic tofu! 'Cause this chick wants to get it on with you:

to all the cute boys at the co-op - w4m - 26 (park slope)

I realize that 95% of you are married and have cute-ass kids who love kale as much as you do. But that other 5% MUST exist and I'm determined to find you...let yourself be known! 

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COOL OR NOT COOL: Gettin' Busy At The Park Slope Food Coop?

Once in a long while, an article about Park Slope comes across my laptop screen that is just so damn mind-bending in it's own perfectly crafted galactical absurdity, it scrambles my brain a little bit. Like it starts to feel as if the myriad of possibilities for making fun of this shit--this neighborhood we live in and all the people who live in it--is just completely overwhelming. IT'S TOO BIG FOR EVEN THIS BLOG TO HANDLE.

Such is the case with The New York Observer's nuanced exploration into the dark underbelly of the singles scene at your favorite judge-y work camp market and mine: the Park Slope Food Coop. Lest you think the Coop is only good for inane PA announcements or #768 (or whatever the fuck the number is) plastic recycling days, think again, ppl. Because apparently now your 2.75 hours of monthly avocado counting and orange vest walking responsibilities are not the only Coop-y things you have to look forward to. No siree, Sufjan! Here's yet another item to add to your ever growing "Reasons Why The Coop Rocks" Google tasks list: singles events!

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The Park Slope Food Coop Loves Itself, Hates The Onion

Don't even THINK about putting a flyer for your stupid band's show here. It is NOT welcome. 

(Thanks to Carmen for sending via Twitter!)

"Food Coop" Google Results Produce Interesting Advertisement

Google "Park Slope Food Coop" and peep the advertisement that comes up in the search snippet. The result is bound to harden your salami. To juice your pickle. To shoot cream from your cannoli. Dick joke.

[Via Twitter User Mike Epstein / Gothamist]