Beating a Busted Bugaboo?
Maybe there’s more to the Park Slope stroller mafia debate than points about how it shows how white people are jealous of other white people or assertions that negative stereotypes come from I-don’t-wanna-grow-up hipsters. Maybe, as Lynn Harris posits in yesterday’s Style section, Slope bashing is an elegy for a former New York: Brooklyn was…
Maybe there’s more to the Park Slope stroller mafia debate than points about how it shows how white people are jealous of other white people or assertions that negative stereotypes come from I-don’t-wanna-grow-up hipsters. Maybe, as Lynn Harris posits in yesterday’s Style section, Slope bashing is an elegy for a former New York:
Brooklyn was supposed to be Manhattan’s little burnout brother. When I arrived in New York, Brooklyn was the place you could reliably feel superior to, if you thought about it at all. New Yorkers don’t hate the Upper East Side in the same way because that’s old money, old news. But Brooklyn? There’s the feeling that yuppies in Park Slope are washing away Brooklyn’s grittiness and making it more like Manhattan, said Jose Sanchez, chairman of urban studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Brooklyn was supposed to be different. Park Slope, to some, now represents everything that Brooklyn was not supposed to be. That’s why our feelings about Park Slope are linked to our feelings about our entire city: our overpriced, chain-store city run by bankers, socialites and, it seems, mommies. The artists are fleeing and your friends, it seems, have become Park Slope pod people. (And they’re coming for you, too.) It’s starting to feel as if there’s nowhere left to hide. And that if we lose Brooklyn, we lose everything. Though actually, if you could keep hating Park Slope, that would be great. Maybe if it really falls out of favor, I’ll be able to afford to stay.
But maybe all press is good press.
Park Slope: Where Is the Love? [NY Times]
Photo by redxdress.
I came up from Baltimore last weekend to visit a friend in Brooklyn who lives in an overpriced wasteland neighborhood somewhere south(?)of Park Slope. PS is a long boring slog away and not all that interesting once there. Baltimore has plenty of wasteland but at least it’s cheap. Brooklyn just seems like a scam, banking on all the hype it’s gotten over the past decade for hipster enclaves and crappy rock bands. For a citizenry that prides itself on being streetwise, NYC sure is full of suckers.
Once as I was waiting in line to buy a cup of ice cream at Louie Gs on Union and 5th, a completely crazed PS lady was badgering the 16 year old behind the window “DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THESE PLASTIC CUPS ARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, DO YOU KNOW, DO YOU KNOW…”.
That’s the freakin problem. A few aholes like that turn your stomach. Write a letter to the owner lady leave the girl alone.
stupid bjork!
I wanna bjork bjork
Re the ecological argument over organic vs. non-organic foods, this article from Wired should be of interest:
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_03organics
Heather, je pensais que les Alpes françaises a tous les coins de France et pas seulement dans le milieu. I believe polyandry is practiced in Tibet. We could have the good folks at Mandala Tibetan Store on 7th Avenue in Park Slope confirm this.
I think 7:40 is on to something, in addition to being on something. Perhaps people need to increase their recreational activities and chill out here. Some whackatabacky and fondue might be exactly what the doctor ordered. I think the best fondue I ever had was in Switzerland. They must have poured a full bottle of red wine into each pot. After a couple of hours I began to imagine a giant cuckoo clock emerge from Lake Geneva.
“scratching my balls right now is more gratifying than reading the dribble posted here by you schmucks.â€
10:42 = Hamadryas Baboon at Prospect Park Zoo
i saw bjork on saturday in park slope. she doesn’t live there though, does she?
Two words in support of Park Slope:
Steve Buscemi
Isn’t that all you have to say?
“If you lived here, you’d be home now.”