There was a sign up on the door of Gregory’s Coffee this morning.

Signs on doors are almost never good.

I called their Park Avenue store to ask what happened. The woman I spoke to sounded sad about it, but would only say the store had closed. The neighborhood is going to miss them. Everyone I told at Noemi’s school drop-off this morning was surprised at the news.

Gregory’s was one of three connected one-story storefronts on the corner of 14th and First Avenue.

I’ve never really understood how the bodega next door stays in business — or avoids the Health Department. The Hot Dog place has also never seemed especially permanent (or clean for that matter). But the biggest thing I don’t understand is how there is still a one-story building on a busy corner across the street from Stuyvesant Town. That location is worth a fortune and I won’t be at all surprised if I wake up one morning and find the whole thing being demolished.

Lately I’ve noticed the Finder on my MacBook Pro has been running both CPU cores at 40-80% for no apparent reason. From what I’ve been able to tell, there is a bug related to having the same window open in two different spaces with Calculate Folder Sizes enabled. I filed a bug on this (5609348) but Apple is already aware of this issue.

Workaround: Closing all the Finder windows (⌘⌥w) seems to bring the Finder’s CPU usage back to zero.

The following steps will recreate the problem every time for me:

1. Log in to the guest account
2. ⌘↑ twice (navigate up from guest user’s home folder)
3. ⌘2 (list view)

4. Open System Prefs
5. Enable Spaces with default options.

6. Open Activity Monitor (via Spotlight), search for “Finder” to clean up display
7. Arrange windows so the CPU value is visible behind the window

8. Switch to another space
9. Create a new window: ⌘n, ⌘↑ twice, ⌘2

10. Switch back to first space
11. Click Finder window to be sure it’s selected (probably unnecessary)
12. ⌘J (Show View Options)
13. Check “Calculate all sizes”

CPU usage should now increase. On my MBP I see about 40% across both cores.

14. Uncheck “Calculate all sizes”

CPU usage increases to as much as 80%

A few notes:

The window should have a lot of files underneath it. If the Calculate all sizes command finishes too quickly it won’t show the problem. I opened windows to the top level of the hard drive because there weren’t enough files in the default guest account home folder.

This behavior did not happen with both windows in the same space.