Brooklyn Heights: Why’d the chicken cross the street? To get to James Weir Floral Company, the oldest business on Montague, which is moving…across the street! Get it? [Brooklyn Eagle via Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Park Slope: Slopies wonder if they’ll be portrayed as glamorous, svelte, child-neglecting, adulterous hedonists in the possible TV show based on the hood. They can hope. [Curbed]
South Bronx: This summer, the floating swimming pool’s coming here, home of the only community board in the city without a pool. Everybody on the 6 and into the SoBro pool! [Brooklyn Paper]
Staten Island: It’s rare that we get to include S.I. items that we’re gonna drop this even without a hood attached: So many cute deer are swimming across the Arthur Kill from New Jersey and populating S.I. that the state is doing its first deer count there. How cute is that, right? [amNY]
Upper West Side: Does the just-unveiled new facade of 2 Columbus Circle more readily spell out “HE,” “HI,” or “EH”? Whatever it spells, it doesn’t sound like the architect is happy about it. [NYT]
Williamsburg: The vacate order has been lifted on 475 Kent, where matzo was being made illegally in the basement, but apparently tenants aren’t allowed to move back in. Which leaves us feeling flat. [Brownstoner]
Windsor Terrace: It ain’t such a low-rent Slope around here that folks won’t complain when the booze shop sells to drunks who then pass out with their leg braces blocking the sidewalk! [Gowanus Lounge]
