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.
12:54 – WTF are you too pass judgment on (virtually) everyone besides yourself – you are a LEGITIMATE criticism of Park Slope…
Guess what – no one needs you to “get us interested”
Personally my guess is that YOU are living in a bubble of ignorance when it comes to War, the environment, the economy etc…. but I respect your right to be left alone in ignorance when you scream for less greenhouse gasses and AGAINST density like Atlantic Yards. or when you buy a new 30G hybrid, instead of a used car….
I thought you ‘liberals’ like diversity – guess what – some of us think you are wrong, don’t need to be woken up and find your signs, shoes, glasses and preach-ness irritating.
Again this isnt H.S. – try being independent
biff would know…
It’s “Deep SEATED”.
Deep-seated
There have always been places like berkeley, california, portland oregon, park slope, brooklyn (you can laugh, but it’s true), woodstock, brattleboro, vermont just to name a few of places that are hotbeds of liberal activism. It’s places like this that keep the country in check. If we did not have these places, the United States could falter back to a majority Christian Conservative country.
Think about Obama for a second. He’s the king of the “limosine liberals” but most of us would probably say he’d be darn good for this country at the same time. So knock Park Slope all you want. Personally those signs and stickers I end up seeing are really things I care quite deeply about. Someone needs to stick up for them, if I’m not.
I am 12:54 and I will be honest that “deep seated, deep seeded” is one of those expressions I’ve never written and now that i see it I honestly don’t even know what the correct word is. Know what it means, but how nice it is to realize that I can have lived a good life, be educated, live in a nice place, get on my little soapbox for a moment and then realize that I have no effing clue what that saying is.
Is it deep seated? deep seeded? none of the above?
Where did it originate?
Nice to know you can still learn something new every day.
hey 12.42 – NY latinas wear godawful horribly ugly D and G thick glasses without them being a political statement.
I’m with you 12:42 but I feel for the first 12: 26.
and btw, ‘snice started in the west village.
so you can still make your point, but it has absolutely no exclusive bearing on park slope.