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Bklink: Park Slope Loves The Rabbit

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

link-asterisk.jpgSit down, because this may come as a shock: Park Slopers really love their strollers high-end sex toys. Uh huh. A check-in with Babeland, which opened to some prudish consternation, finds that business is booming. “We’re doubling our sales projections,” says Claire Cavanah, one of Babeland’s owners. “We were conservative about how the sales volume would be, but it’s almost been effortless.” Cavanah says the chainlet’s “meat-and-potato” items like the Magic Wand and Rabbit vibrators are top sellers in the Slope, and the store has surprised her by selling a lot of luxury toys priced at more than $100 and “designed for a lifestyle crowd.” We now return to our regular programming.–The Real Estate

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