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Ok, so we were pretty sure that we were all bedbugged-out on these pages… until we saw this incredible photo of the Pavilion marquee this morning on FiPS. We’ll let you read the story there, but we had to get in this shot, lest you miss the daring feat of letter-arrangement. And once your initial reaction wears off, you might want to note how well the prank title blends in with all the real stuff up there. If only they were in 3D! Read what happened here at FiPS, including the astute comparison to one character of JetBlue fame.

How to game your Metrocard before the hike [Daily News]
Purity Diner, other surprise health grades in the Slope [FiPS]
Atlantic Yards musical opening soon [NY Times]
New Yorkers are the most stressed-out in the U.S.! [FiPS, Gawker]
But, study says: Stress is down in NYC [Amer. Psychol. Assoc.]
Retailers cutting floor space, upping sales [NY Times]
Zagat launches food-truck finder app [Jauntsetter]
BK’s scariest bar is no more [Grub Street]
The 40 unhealthiest coffee drinks [The Daily Beast]
Meet the new cupcakes in Sheepshead Bay [Grub Street]

When a reader asks for tips on the cheapest way to do this or that around town, we like to open it up to everyone. There are always a few of you with some great ideas on throwing that cheap dance party, and all the neighborly helpfulness makes everyone feel good. Well, today, we came across a request for cheap services we couldn’t resist, and it wasn’t even directed here. FiPS sent out a call from a reader looking for the cheapest dry-cleaners in Park Slope: “I’m broke, but I don’t want to be dirty! Any ideas?” The dirty brokester’s call has gone unanswered so far, so we put it to you to help her out: Any suggestions for cheap dry-cleaners in the Slope? Comment away.

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What do Jonathan Ames, Maggie Gyllenhaal, that redhead waitress at Mary’s Fish Camp and yours truly have in common? We all made this year’s Park Slope 100 list, the annual tally of “100 people, places and things that make Park Slope Park Slope,” compiled by Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn author Louise Crawford. Brokelyn earned a spot for being “the right blog at the right time and for teaching us to live big on small change” and we’re thrilled to be among the delightfully random honorees including Babeland, the neon sign at Rachel’s Taqueria, Iris in the radiation department at Methodist, Prospect Park West (the novel by Amy Sohn, a bit of a surprise here) and our fellow bloggers at Brooklyn Based and FIPS, among 93 others. We’d be remiss in not giving big props to Louise herself, one of the first and most prolific Brooklyn neighborhood bloggers, who covers her territory like a Maclaren rain shield. Thanks Louise!

Why is it so much fun to find out how much people make, even if you don’t know them? On FiPS, this week’s edition of “Who Gives a Shit?” invites readers of the salty Park Slope blog to answer the question: What do you do and how much do you get paid to do it? Some of the answers: a $75,000-a-year industrial designer of animal products “things that squeak” (like the duck in the next item?), a charter-school teacher who makes $64,000 and an executive assistant at a non-profit (a “clueless creative working a dayjob”) for $50,000. The lowest paid people have no jobs at all, of course, and on the other end is a junior investment banker who makes $150,000. But where are all the strippers and drug dealers? The richie riches? Those people who supposedly make $300 a day linking to Google Ads? Don’t any of them live in Park Slope? Read the full list here and add your own, for no good reason.