Blogorrhea NYC: All The Leaves Brown, and the Open-House Sky Is Gray

• Winter's early this year in the real-estate market — or, at least, so say folks writing into Curbed about their open-house experiences. [Curbed]
• Redhook makes its first inroads into Park Slope as the forgotten Brooklyn nabe's much-talked-about burger joint Schnack prepares to open a branch on Fourth Avenue near President. Clearly such riff-raff could never get above Fifth. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
• On the Lower East Side, need coffee, but unwilling to enter the apocalyptic Starbucks? Here are a few caffeine-fix alternatives. [Hermitude NYC]
• Brian Jungen turns old shoes into faux-aboriginal art. Surprisingly, this isn't happening at PS1, the bastion of all things weird and arty, but at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Chelsea. Apparently they still permit weird and arty in Manhattan. [Cool Hunting]