*Everyday Chatter

Is the Subway Inn closed for good? Not according to their Facebook page, where it says they are "Temporarily Closed...Until renovations are complete." (Hope we don't lose the aquatic green lighting.)

As Cha-Cha's and Ruby's prepare for either closure or gutting, a sad auction at Coney Island. [ATZ]

Last day (?) at Ruby's. [OMFS]

Park Slopers are dressing their kids as food trucks. [Eater]

Check out John Conn's photos of the NYC subway in the 1970s--a "house of horrors." [NYT]

Saturday's snow on flowers and greenery--Hell in a handbasket:


Will Park Slope's Ozzie's cafe become a Starbucks--and lose the TRUSSES signage? [HPS]

A melee at 7A. [EVG]

Gowanus Canal: The Toxic Playground. [Kensinger]

Bloomberg tries to freeze out the Wall St. Occupiers. [NYM]

And now the NYPD may be encouraging drunks and crazies to "take it to Zuccotti." Psychological warfare? [Gothamist]