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]
Yeah, GWH is an invention, but I love the name and I think it best fits where I live. I miss PS by a smidge, but don’t consider myself to be anywhere near Sunset Park. I’ve also been told by several older people that I live in Windsor Terrace. That was a new one for me, as I never knew WT to stretch to 5th Ave!
11217 – ur neighbor is obviously senile 🙂
my husband born in methodist and lived here forever with all this park slope friends who also were all born here considered park slope to kinda go on and on
not saying that it wasn’t desolate past 9th street which it was when they were kids
but it was still park slope
gemini’s right- All the oldsters on my block say they live in park slope (with an italian accent!) And I can trace their ownership of the houses on our block way back to the 20s.
The guys at Eagle think there store is in park slope. Tons of business around there have Park Slope as part of their business name on their super-old signs.
My neighbor who’s lived in Park Slope for over 5 decades still says Park Slope doesn’t go past 3rd Street or beyond 6th Avenue…
well my husband defintely considered 21st street Park Slope
there was no such nabe according to him and his friends who actually grew up on 21st called “Greenwood Hts”
Really, Gem? I thought the Brooklyn old timers cut PS off either at the Expressway or, if they are hard core, at 15th street, and the super hard core chop it at 9th street!
You guys are hilarious!
but come on – you all know that 21st street is considered park slope BY THE OLD TIMERS!
so there :p
It will be funny in ten years to see where the neighborhood lines are drawn and what new names pop up.
“Except two sentences in we will realize that the writer has lived on Jay and Willoughby for the last 3 and 1/2 years…”
Snort!
Or maybe it’s called Dumbo South! : P