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]
So so so so funny that this dude is moving to Manhattan to get away from assholes. Dude this is NYC, it’s a gigantic asshole magnet. In Park Slope people might be self-absorbed overgrown children with children of their own but they’re capable of being shamed when they get dicky. Good luck in Manhattan.
List of places where people are less dicky:
1. The South (I have read this in books, I have no idea if it’s true)
2. Australia, if your’e white and Australian
3. California (j/k, j/k, they’re assholes with tans)
4. Vermont (except when I’m there, I’m kind of an asshole)
5. Wicked poor places in Africa (again, read it somewhere, no idea if it’s true)
I can’t think of any others.
i think he should have moved to queens. if it’s friendliness and community he wants, then manhattan isn’t a logical choice, particularly the financial district. very odd. but astoria, queens is bustling, on the cusp of gentrification, with immigrants and young post-college kids and families living right next to each other and for the most part getting along. i live in cobble hill now but i often miss astoria (lived in the ditmars area as well as off 34th ave). it’s too bad the architecture there is so dreary – it really got me down sometimes!
that said my block of amity street in cobble hill is very friendly, i know some of my neighbors, their dogs, their kids. this didn’t happen when i lived in east village.
You know Snaps -that is something I don’t know. But you are right – where does SP start?
OH MAN, 11217 WAS RIGHT….THIS GUY HAS BED BUGS!!!!!!!
http://daryllang.com/blog/4013#more-4013
Silly article. Silly comments.
It was fun.
Night all.
Yes, a lot of folks back here insist they live in PS. So if 21st street is PS, where does PS end? Where does SP begin? I personally put SP at 36th Street, but could be wrong.
Just wanted to give Miss Nonko props for noting that he’s leaving *Park Slope* — his farewell doesn’t seem especially aware of the boro beyond the slope.
When someone moves from Brooklyn to manhattan, the average IQ of both places goes up.
ROFL ENY @ 4:54