All stories about "Strollers"

So, a Park Slope Stroller Mom is pushing the little one down Seventh Avenue on her way to the Tea Lounge or, perhaps, Union Hall, when the unthinkable happens: the Maclaren has tire trouble. What to do? Apparently, go to a bike shop. Today's Post reports that Brooklyn nabes like Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights are on the cutting edge of a new trend: fixing stroller flats. Says the owner of a Slope shop: "They come in usually with one or two babies crying and sometimes demand to cut the line...We try to fix the flat right out on the sidewalk so they don't have to come into the store." One mom reports two blowouts and two flats on the mean street of the Baby Boom Brooklyn, including a nasty incident at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The bike shop owners say that "they never imagined that they would be fixing several strollers a day and even more on the weekends." Could all the flat fix shops on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope be a condo amenity marketing point, as in "steps to the renowned 24-hour Flat Fix."
· Bike Shops Now Stroller Pit Stops [NYP]

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Here from the Brooklyn blog world, a little bit of late afternoon April Fool's Day fun:

1) The defunct Atlantic Yards plan has resurfaced as Manhattan Mews (above). Miss Brooklyn lives on as Lady Lexington. [No Land Grab]

2) Park Slope and Cobble Hill will be charging “Sidewalk User Fees” for strollers on major thoroughfares. It was attached to Congestion Pricing legislation. [McBrooklyn]

3) Actually, the Didik Long Ranger on Concord Street in Downtown Brooklyn isn't an April Fool's joke, but it could pass for a gag. [INSIJS]

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[Image courtesy of Pardon Me for Asking]

Here's a little slice of life from Smith Street and Court Street, starting with an email floating around in the Boerum Hill Group that skateboarding teens in front of a shop on Smith Street called Homage are a menace. This, in turn, led someone else to say the real neighborhood annoyance is strollers. (Just in case anyone thought it was strictly a Park Slope issue.) Independent of this, blogger Pardon Me for Asking noted the incredible stroller gridlock at Court Street's Tea Lounge. And, another resident rewrote the original skateboarding rant substituting "moms" and "strollers" for "teens" and "skateboards."

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