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]
“don’t most young white people go grocery shopping while stoned anyways?”
Yes.”
This is going to be great! I’m going to be messing with some stoned kids heads! Dropping things at their feet, asking them to reach things for me, asking them random weird questions! LOL!
What, no one orders Fresh Direct while stoned? Could wind up with a few surprises in your grocery box the next day 🙂
“It’s actually funny to me that the title of the blog post is “On leaving Brooklyn” and Brownstoner changed the title to “On leaving Park Slope”
Either you’re as bad as the lying brokers or you wanted more hits on this entry. ”
Aww lay off – if she put “On Leaving Brooklyn” everyone ELSE would have been pissed off for being lumped together with Park Slope – which the article obviously focuses on.
Wow, he moved into the Slope just as I was leaving for many of the same reasons he sites.
“don’t most young white people go grocery shopping while stoned anyways?”
Yes.
It’s actually funny to me that the title of the blog post is “On leaving Brooklyn” and Brownstoner changed the title to “On leaving Park Slope”
Either you’re as bad as the lying brokers or you wanted more hits on this entry.
Granted the dude starts out by saying he lives in Park Slope (when in fact he doesn’t) but THIS blog doesn’t need to perpetuate the inaccuracy.
“don’t most young white people go grocery shopping while stoned anyways?”
If they do, I’m going to have some real fun next time I’m at MET Food!
Sound to me like Daryl Lang has a turd in his pocket.
Ha, ok…I’ve been in Brooklyn for 14 years, only 11 in Greenwood Heights. Brooklyn feels like home. It has felt that way for a very long time.