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?
On Leaving Brooklyn [History Eraser Button]
“Those of us born in the late 1970s and early 1980s”
Oh ok, cool. You’re 30 then Daryl. Oh wise one.
He just needs to move to neighborhood where manners still count. I recall folks in Park Slope from years ago and thinking: how were they raised? It is not a new phenomenon.
OMG
So I just realized who this douche bag is; he’s works with an acquaintance.
Suffice to say there is JUST A SMIDGE of projection in that post.
It’s quite amazing how much gentrifier on gentrifier hatred there is in Brooklyn. Like the EXACT time you moved into Brooklyn was the best, and everyone else that moved in after you is a loser, and is ruining the community.
Have fun in Manhattan – I’m sure there will be plenty of rent controlled old biddies who will need your help in the 15,000 Duane Reades, Rite Aids and other chain convenience stores you’ll be surrounded by.
The usual Sages of Brownstoner (mopar, dibs & slopefarm) have said it! Why would anyone expect any better in Manhattan? The cold, aloof Manhattanites made so many of us move to Brooklyn in the first place. Personally, when my old area of the Slope along 8th Ave became annoyingly gentrified (or “yuppified”) I was glad to move down to 5th Ave. Maybe if Daryl had moved even 5 blocks in any direction it would have been a better situation. But Manhattan? No way.
Slopefarm,
The dude lives on 21st Street
Which ISN’T EVEN PARK SLOPE!!
And he’s lived in “Park Slope” for 8 years and when it moved in it was a “haven for lesbians” and it’s a place where parents stay up till dawn drinking jack and cocks on “warehouse rooftops”
Seriously, this guy doesn’t even know where he lives, but read his post…he’s an idiot.
this dude needs to move to the suburbs not manhattan.
Anyone who writes this sort of blog is both starving for attention and full of himself. No wonder no one says hello to him.
Yeah, civilization and civility are crumbling, but where are you going for an improvement? St. Paul, MN sounds promising, but Manhattan? Some combination of 9/11 and the Internet pretty much killed what was left of Manhattan’s charm.
My GF wants me to move to Queens with her, but that’s just a dead zone.
I feel your pain, but your future generation makes me think your post is an experiement, or something other than what it appears to be.