Habana Outpost.Photo: Andrew Karcie
Greenpoint: There was a party here to light up the huge, onion-dome-like sewage-treatment eggs that now dominate much of the G’point vista. And there was a cake with a picture of the sewage eggs on it. Yum! [Newyorkshitty]
Harlem: We seldom have anything nice to say about garbage. Then it just so happens that the soft rubber lid of a garbage can cushions the eighteen-foot fall of a toddler and saves her life. Maybe we should all think about garbage a little more respectfully, this story seems to be telling us. [NYP]
Williamsburg: Welcome to this really long piece comparing the hood to a college campus. If, say, you went to Antioch or Purchase or Oberlin or some place like that. [NYO]
Park Slope: Babeland, the trendy sex-toy store, has opened here on Bergen Street, but Slopie parents don’t seem to mind, because it won’t put vibrators in the window, will offer a changing table, will sell vegan lubricant, and will offer Slope moms postpartum sex-positive workshops. [NYDN]
Red Hook: The big Ikea that’s opening here June 18 has commandeered the land of the nearby former Revere Sugar Factory to absorb any overflow from its own 1,400-car parking lot. The store expects up to 17,000 visitors a day. [Brooklyn Paper]
Jamaica: Preservationists want to landmark a bunch of churches, banks, and other stuff here, but pastors from two of the targeted churches say “No, thanks” to the proposition…especially after a historian’s walking tour barged in on a first-Communion rehearsal. Those little kids could’ve choked on the wafers! [NYDN via Queenscrap]
