The Revenge of the Stoop PooperBehold the return of the Boerum Hill Stoop Pooper, the chilled-out raccoon of Brooklyn Heights, and the aggressive Kennedy Fried Chicken sign of Bedford Park. All in today’s boroughs report.
ByTim Murphy
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Cool Nuns Will Build Houses for Environment, Old PeopleGenerous nuns heed the earth in Bedford Park, an anti-Greek wind blows in the East Village, and sulfurous yet minty odor pervades Long Island City, all in the final boroughs roundup of this awesomely sunny July week!
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All Peeping Toms to Third Avenue, StatBedford Park: Council speaker Christine Quinn shopped at a Botanical Garden farmer’s market up here this morning to tout the acceptance of food stamps (well, EBT cards) at city Greenmarkets. Not that she used them to buy her string beans and melon. [West Bronx Blog]
Bushwick: In which a softhearted, London-bound alternababe holds a yard sale but ends up giving away half the items — including a doll’s head — to the local kids. [BushwickBK]
Coney Island: They’ll be protesting at Astroland on Sunday, the last day of the season, to demand that Coney megadeveloper Joe Sitt keep the park open next year. [Gowanus Lounge]
Downtown Brooklyn: The site harboring a huge pile of rubble right near MetroTech could soon become home to the borough’s tallest building. Yep, taller than the Williamsburg Bank. And that’s pretty tall. [McBrooklyn]
East Village: Until they install bigger venetian blinds at the new 110 Third Avenue condo, there’s good voyeurism to be had for passersby — or good exhibitionism for lower-floor occupants, if they dig that sort of thing. [Curbed]
Williamsburg: Boy, you gotta be pretty, uh, pissed off by dog drippings in your neighborhood to build a whole sandwich-board sign to denounce it. [Newyorkshitty]