Some Park Slope activists have so little faith in the MTA's promise to renovate the dreary Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street station that they're imploring transit officials to scale back their plans and instead make a few specific improvements immediately. The massive refurbishment was supposed to begin this year and turn the "dank and dark" station into a light-filled hub with clean windows and a new copper roof. But the plans were later scaled back......

Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin (on his skateboard) and his BFF Josh Reznick (sporting JAMS) at Public School 321 in Park Slope. Facebook has been stealing the attention of MySpace for quite some time, and today The NY Times takes a look at just how the 30-somethings are white-knuckling on to the past through the social networking platform. Check out the group Thirty Something and Grew Up in Park Slope, it's like a time machine......

Photo of weekend subway service chances courtesy Triborough. An international survey of metropolitan residents around the world has found that less than 10% of New Yorkers are happy with the city’s services – a far lower number than in cities abroad like Singapore, where 61% insist they’re satisfied. Also more satisfied is Madrid, with a 37% thumbs up rate, while 29% approve of Paris services and 22% of Londoners are satisfied. But does this......