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]
I’ve lived in the South in both large and small cities, and I’ve lived in the suburbs of Southern California. I’ve found the people of NYC overall and Brooklyn in particular to be the most friendly.
Yawn.
Generalizing an entire neighborhood based on one person’s experiences… a totally accurate way to draw conclusions.
Park Slope is a great place I lived in the area for some time but I moved out for the same reason and found another area in Brooklyn that fit me. Brooklyn is not Park Slope alone… It is a big place with many great areas. I know all my neighbors here in Bedford Stuyvesant some a bit too well.. When I lived in Ft Greene in the late 90s it was the same way. Manhattan I love going to… but living Brooklyn is more my speed. Just look at Brownstoner Brooklyn vs Curbed Manhattan our comments we can be kinda harsh but curbed makes us look like angels.
You Brooklyn people are so toxic, you make Manhattan folks seem less douchebaggy, and that is fucking hard to do. I must say, when I write “on leaving New York”, I’ll think of this thread. Where are the good people? I’d like to go there.
Whoa, look what happened to this thread after 4:04. I have to go buy an iPhone now.
Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today
I want to be a part of it – new york, new york
These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it – new york,
new york
I wanna wake up in a city, that doesn’t sleep
And find I’m king of the hill – top of the heap
These little town blues, are melting away
I’ll make a brand new start of it – in old new
york
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
It’s up to you – new york, new york
New york, new york
I want to wake up in a city, that never sleeps
And find I’m a number one top of the list, king
of the hill
A number one
These little town blues, are melting away
I’m gonna make a brand new start of it – in old
new york
And if I can make it there, I’m gonna make it
anywhere
It up to you – new york new york
New york
Snaps – fo sho! – it’s interesting
I kinda feel bad for this dude at this point – I mean he does have some points
I am kinda weirded out by the parents who let little johnny flail around like a whirling derbish at Keyfood or Snice and yeah why the F$uck are you bringing your ridiculous stroller into CT Muffin on a Sat morning on 7th avenue?
I mean are you serious????
“THIS GUY HAS BED BUGS!”
Ooh, I wonder what his new landlord is going to think about THAT!
Gem, we’ll go out tomorrow and draw up our own maps! Ha!