Former financial analyst turned real estate agent Flynn Sharpe is assigned the unenviable task of emptying a Park Slope building of its lesbian inhabitants and their beloved bar, Aunt Muffin's, to make way for a gentrifying development. Determined at first to get the job done post haste and quickly rise up in the ranks of the shark-infested real estate business, things turn complicated when he falls in love with rebel painter and proudly self-identified native New Yorker Nicole DeGioia, who lives and paints above the bar and has no intention of going anywhere anytime soon. (Illustrated)