Closing Bell: On Leaving Park Slope
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share…
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share a stoop. These things are getting noticeably worse.” This is the nut of a post by longtime Park Sloper Daryl Lang who’s leaving the borough and moving to Manhattan. The essay covers everything from the Park Slope Food Co-Op to pretentious parenting and “fidgety and skittish” fathers. His final diagnosis? “Park Slope’s reputation as a welcoming place went viral, and brought in new residents who made it a warped exaggeration of itself.” Agree?
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I’ll take one for the team and scout out the warehouse rooftop location but I am NOT looking for any cock drinking 🙂
P.S. Where’s the fun warehouse rooftop and cock drinking establishment in Park Slope??!
there was a basement party on union and 5th years ago for that activity.
“drinking jack and cocks”
He’ll probably find that same drink in Manhattan, but with less jack.
The reason he’s moving to Manhattan is not to find more of a community vibe. That’s obvious.
He’s moving to Manhattan to be more anonymous because he’s such a jackass and doesn’t want to be recognized anymore.
P.S. Where’s the fun warehouse rooftop and cock drinking establishment in Park Slope??!
vineload…I too learned all the names of my neighbors on my block within a few weeks. they all say hello. it’s very nice.
In other news, I’m just going to stay in the neighborhood and enjoy it spectacularly. Also this article is f*ing hilarious. We should just stand back and enjoy it. Examples:
1. The neo-french baseball coupe where HIS friends.
2. What kind of made up Catholicism is that junk about abstinence for staying up late on a Thurs eating wings?
3. He just doesn’t like fidgety people!
4. Jess and Emily and Kip moved to the Upper East Side!
5. “We should practice a vocation, care for the less fortunate, cultivate hobbies and interests, and set a good example.”!!!!!
6. It’s time to cede this neighborhood to the hip and despicable. (YES! That is us, the alpha dog hipsters of greenwood. Don’t mess.)
7. …Jonathan Letham, the novelist who helped give Brownstone Brooklyn its literary reputation…
So awesome. I wish I knew this guy before he left. I would have said hi more, and let him tag up on our educational graffitti wall.
There is a whole lot of pot and kettle going on in here.
“Why not get a pair and yell at the guy who wouldn’t help the old lady?”
well – he was being typical Park Slope, passive aggressive and whiny. He probably needed to consult with the Brownstoner.com Forum before he actually confronted anybody.
I helped an old lady get down a can of Goya beans last night at Key Food.
And I *ACTUALLY* live in Park Slope.