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.
Yes there is Biff, but the pizza is much better. Also there is the giglio.
And, thanks! I think. Mais, ou devrait le francais trouve un magasin qui vend les smoothies a prospect park ouest?
Organic also means no harmful pesticides and chemicals, 4:25.
THAT is what is most harmful towards the environment.
NOT more time or more animals.
God you are stupid.
2:32 – because organic foods (especially meats and milk) require more time to produce the same yield – which means that you need more cows for the same amount of milk and more animals for the same amount of meat – both of which require more feed which requires more carbon to produce as well as the fact that the animals themselves end up producing tons and tons of additional greenhouse gases.
Organic farm products also produce lower yields , thereby requiring more be planted, cared for and transported.
Not saying that “organic=bad”, just that organic=more greenhouse gases.
If your concerned about global warming then eat locally produced fresh produce and meat
I second the bagel hole as best bagels in NYC.
Tied with H&H
slopefarm, you got that right! Much to the delight of everyone here, I’m speechless. Ok, almost speechless (sorry everyone).
Heather, you are the perfect storm of daveinbedstuy, Jerri, Nokilissa, Polemicist and me all rolled up into one. I’m humbled in your presence. You are as refreshing as a bean sprout smoothie to a vacationing Frenchman on Prospect Park West.
Speaking of Williamsburg, isn’t there an annoying hill running through the middle of that entire neighborhood?
3:56 Bagel Hole in ps has the best bagels in the city.
– A guy that doesn’t live in Park Slope.
Slopefarm,
I just moved from Williamsburg to Fort Greene. Or Clinton Hill. Actually, I am not sure which boundary line we fall in and I do not know this neighborhood well enough to mock it. Yet!
But if it would make you feel better, we can mock Williamsburg now. Or you can mock my granite countertops and recessed lighting… I’m not that fussed.
Here’s an interesting little note about the strollers, the sidewalks and the moms:
Most of the hatred seems spawned from a tiny strip of 7th Avenue between about Flatbush to Union Street where the original bluestone sidwalks are quite narrow. It does indeed make traversing it with any stroller (or shopping bag) difficult at times, but that’s the price you pay for having great, unique old sidewalks instead of concrete slabs.
Once you hit Union, it’s smooth sailing, and if you’ve ever had a problem with those sidewalks, you really need to consider having your stomach stapled.
And I’m also curious to know how Park Slope is dead and boring, but also crowded and too many restaurants, bars and shops all at the same time…
I waited over an hour for a table at Al Di La on Friday night at 10pm. Doesn’t sound to me as if Park Slope is hurting because of all this pr.
As a publicist, I do agree that any pr, is good pr. Every comment you make here makes another person want to come out and see for themselves what all the “fuss” is about.
And more people than not end up loving Park Slope.
That is, afterall why prices are skyrocketing…both rentals and home prices and why brownstones are still a sought after commodity here.
You do understand supply and demand, right?
If everyone thought Park Slope REALLY sucked, home prices would not be some of the highest in the borough.
See how this works?
Park Slope is good for Brooklyn and I love Brooklyn. I’ve lived here for just about my entire life so I know the Park Slope of old and new. I live and own in Stuyvesant Heights and everything Park Slope has I want here. Not replicated but nuanced. Tailored to fit the growing diversity of this neighborhood. The number of active parents per capita is growing steadily. Yay Park Slope. Here’s hoping other Brooklyn neighborhoods aren’t too far behind.