New York Magazine has gone too far. In this week’s issue, they actually published the address of Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Kraus’ house in Park Slope, as part of an article about New York Tribes and where they hang out. This location, the only personal residence mentioned in the piece, was listed in the  "The Lit Guy" section. This section also included:

826 NYC (a.k.a. the Superhero Supply Co.)
372 Fifth Ave.
The storefront that houses the East Coast branch of Dave Eggers’s do-gooder tutoring outfit still offers McSweeney’s products and twee items (capes, utility belts) that’ll leave you pleased or irritated.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

(Photo: Randy Minor)

 
826 NYC (a.k.a. the Superhero Supply Co.)
372 Fifth Ave.
The storefront that houses the East Coast branch of Dave Eggers’s do-gooder tutoring outfit still offers McSweeney’s products and twee items (capes, utility belts) that’ll leave you pleased or irritated.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

Rocketship
208 Smith St.
This year-old store in the heart of bookish Brooklyn seems to be the
nexus of comic (er, graphic-novel) fandom, with comic artists like
Peter Kuper and Jamie Tanner holding almost weekly book launches.

Brooklyn Inn
148 Hoyt St.
Brooklyn lit hero and anti-Ratner agitator Jonathan Lethem, who lives
down the block, has been known to stop by this beautiful old
tin-ceilinged bar beloved of Brooklyn literary types. It even made a
(nameless) cameo in Motherless Brooklyn.

Park Slope’s most famous literary denizens
(sorry, Paul Auster) snapped up this triple-lot brownstone last year
for $5.75 million.

Rocketship
208 Smith St.
This year-old store in the heart of bookish Brooklyn seems to be the
nexus of comic (er, graphic-novel) fandom, with comic artists like
Peter Kuper and Jamie Tanner holding almost weekly book launches.

Brooklyn Inn
148 Hoyt St.
Brooklyn lit hero and anti-Ratner agitator Jonathan Lethem, who lives
down the block, has been known to stop by this beautiful old
tin-ceilinged bar beloved of Brooklyn literary types. It even made a
(nameless) cameo in Motherless Brooklyn.

OTBKB fave and one of the Park Slope 100, Steve Buscemi, is in New York Magazine this week. “The Sundance Kid, the headline reads, “Still the toast of the festival, even if he understands that it’s not really about him anymore.”

The story by Logan Hill says that Buscemi is in two Sundance films this year. “Delirious” reunites Buscemi with Tom DeCillo, the director of 1995’s “Living in Oblivion.”

I’m wondering if my old friend from video biz days, Jim Farmer, did the music on the new one, too. Anyone know?

Writes Logan Hill, “Buscemi is an indie god among video store clerks: patron saint of character actors, working stiffs, and last-true-believers everywhere.”

Here’s another quote: “He’s a nice guy, a pre-Heath-and-Michelle, anti-Ratner, pro-firehouses kind of Brooklynite, relaxed and realistic.”

Logan, I know what you mean.

For New York Magazine, Amy Sohn went to the playgrounds of NYC and found out if they’re anything like the one in Little Children. Here’s her report from the Ninth Street Playground in Park Slope.

THE PARENTS SAY:
David Strah, 38, full-time dad, and Barry Miguel, 48, fashion executive, and Zev, 8: Do women flirt with you, assuming you’re straight? David: “I probably wouldn’t pick up on it.” Do gay dads flirt with other gay dads? Barry: “I think they do. Guys are guys.” David: “Usually they’re not very attractive.”

Harmony Playground
9th Street and Prospect Park West, Park Slope

SELECTION
Worn-out stay-at-home moms in fleece sweatshirts; dweeby-preppy or grungy-tattooed Ivy-educated dads.

VIBE
The Squid and the Whale meets The Cosby Show.

SIGHTINGS
Kathryn Erbe.

THE PARENTS SAY:
Sarah Hindsgaul, 28, stylist, with Eli, 2½: Does your husband say, “I saw the hottest women at the playground”? “He says, ‘I saw the oldest women.’ In New York, most mothers are over 40.” Are Park Slope dads cute? “They’re boring. If I were going to flirt at a playground, it would be in Williamsburg.”