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.
Actually, I wanted him to visit us instead, but he was afraid of the Bricolage.
My husband won the contest because he comes from a harsh cruel land.
Dave, yes, Heather and her lovely husband and child flew in from Fort Greene (or Clinton Hill, depending on who’s defining the boundaries) to provide me with complimentary French lessons, which were interspersed with toasted bagel and sea moss smoothie breaks. We also had a contest to see who could come up with the best insults for neighborhoods neither of us had ever been to.
5:38 = talking out of his/her ahole.
shes not right about the hill, she thinks its in the middle of the place.
FYI – 4:25/4:51 is correct about organic being a suspect classification. 4:28 needs to do some research.
You can spray a field for years with the most toxic stuff known to man, then stop, and the next crop you grow can be called ‘organic’. You think the toxins are gone in a few months. Think again.
Also, there are organic pesticides, so everything organic is still covered in pesticides. You think that makes them safe? Think again.
Finally, 4:25 is talking about yields per acre, and is right again. One acre can yield about 50% to 75% produce when utilizing organic farming methods vs. conventional. You need to provide the same amount of water, fertilizer, etc, but you only get half the food from the same acre. That creates double the run off. You think natural fertilizer is good for the water table? Think again.
Is organic food better from you? Maybe, but no study will ever prove that either way.
Is it better for the environment? No way.
Does it make the produce companies more $$ per box since you are all ready pay double for the stuff with the word ‘organic’ on the box. Hell yea.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/05/times_makes_mistake_of_still_c.html
wow, dissing Carroll Gardens now?
Biff was it Heather who flew in for the weekend to visit you???
Having a discussion about whether buying locally is good or not is extremely Park Slope.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Excuse me now, while I shred my Fresh Direct, Urban Organic and Amazon Prime boxes.
“She’s nothing like those people. She’s funny and has some interesting insight.”
5:09#2, that must mean she’s nothing like you too!