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  • The Skate shop is called Concrete Jungle and it’s sweet. Austin Street is on a roll with a bunch of interesting new places - Martha’s Bakery, Cabana Express, Dmitry, and now the Concrete Jungle…keep them coming!

    Posted by Stroller Pushing Yuppie
    on October 14th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

  • I dropped by Concrete Jungle myself the other day. Looks awesome! Though there appears to be a piercing chair in the front window — not sure that’s such a great idea.

    Posted by Steve
    on October 15th, 2007 at 1:54 am

  • Let’s step away from our laptops and put down our blackberrys, ipods, and iphones—and get outside this Saturday, October 20th for It’s My Park Day. Several Forest Hills parks need volunteers to help spruce-up, paint over graffiti, and plant bulbs, etc. The following parks would enjoy your attention just for an hour or two:

    McDonald Park
    Yellowstone Park
    Painters Park
    Pebblestone Triangle
    Willow Lake Playground
    or whatever park you use or just live near

    Go over on Saturday
    IT WILL MAKE YOUOU WILL FEEL GOOD!

    I will be painting the horse hitching posts at Nat Schneider park on Woodhaven and Trotting Horse Lane at about 11:00.

    Hope to see everyone outside this Saturday!

    Posted by visionary
    on October 19th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

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Three great pieces of FoHi news

Posted by Steve on Monday, October 8th, 2007

In order of greatness:

  • According to Jellystone in the comments, a new “skateboard/tattoo-culture shop” has opened above Thai Austin in the possibly doomed complex that is the hoped-for future home of That Hotel. Some (all?) of you will not agree with my ranking this news above the next item, but I don’t believe we have anything remotely like this in the neighborhood. I’ve long given up on the prospect of FoHi as hipster enclave — I’m gunning for more of a Park Slope vibe now — but stroller-pushing yuppies like stuff like this around even if they don’t use it themselves.
  • For most, this is the big one — and I will admit, it’s big. In fact, I was rushing to post this before I saw that FH72 beat me to it, with photos. Laytner’s is an upscalish (nobody truly upscale would print “Lower Prices” on their bags) schmata and wood-furniture purveyor with two locations, one on the Upper West Side, one on the Upper East Side. And now, from all indications, their third will be right here on Austin. People seem to love this place, and it replaces the defunct “Savvy” — a store you never so much as entered in all its years of existence — so this is obviously a huge net gain for the nabe.
  • And once again via FH72, in an item that’s literally close to home, my beloved Ehrenreich-Austin Playground at 76th Road and Austin, a big part of the reason I moved here (such a cute park a block away!), is undergoing major renovations. This goes to the bottom of the list primarily because most of you don’t even know the park I’m talking about, but also because it just underwent major renovations less than two years ago. Nice use of my tax dollars, Parks Department! Still, I can’t really complain, as I do use those benches that are being replaced. While they’re at it, would it kill them to put in a little grass? I know it’s not technically a park, but come on, it’s a park.