Seen from the Stoop: Big Business, Small Town

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Marty Markowitz told Park Slope’s Barclays-haters that if they “wanted to move to a bedroom community, they should have gone to Mill Basin,” according to New York Magazine. Cool, except a lot of us do have bedrooms here. Also: kitchens, bathrooms, and sometimes studies. Which can’t be said of all New Yorkers — this weekend, the Times profiled a number of people who live in super-tiny micro-apartments, which sound like the way of the future and/or total hell. Not that everyone’s going micro — Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s Daniel Goldstein is currently at work on a controversial extension on his new South Slope digs, and the Gray Lady says neighbors are not amused.

But even in a Barclays-business-district age, we’ve still got plenty of neighborhood feel: Patch just announced a dog-photo contest for the cutest pups in the hood, a Canarsie-based inventor is hoping Park Slope parents will be interested in his decked-out strollers, and Old Stone House is planning a fundraiser for a PS 10 student who recently had a heart attack.