Closing Bell: Sign o' the Times in Park Slope
A reader sent in this photo of a sign that was posted on Union and Fifth Avenue the other night, along with some insightful commentary: “It really made me realize that this kinda sums it up right now. The neighborhood is in a battle with itself.” GMAP
A reader sent in this photo of a sign that was posted on Union and Fifth Avenue the other night, along with some insightful commentary: “It really made me realize that this kinda sums it up right now. The neighborhood is in a battle with itself.” GMAP
5:10 – what do they sell at that park?
5:10 lighten up with that “respectable” and “ghetto” crap that your pulling out your ass. You’re a newbie in parkslope.
5:06 – just anecdotal but in my $$$$$-new-condo we have a few public-interest lawyers (DA and legal Aid), a herbalist, a designer, a Doctor, NYC school teacher, a NGO aid worker and a wall Streeter or 2. Seems like in my section of P.S. things are as they always were.
The true misnomer is that all these P.S. people are Hedge fund mangers, white shoe lawyers or Wall st traders – sorry but those people live in more expensive neighborhoods (like Manhattan or Westchester)
“4:43 – clearly you are new to Brooklyn b/c at my “gentrified park” J.J. Byrne – those kids with the Basketball aren’t practicing ball – they are selling dope.”
4:53:
No respectable stroller mom would allow the nanny to take the kid to that ghetto park. The sign clearly is pointing toward and referencing the playground between Lincoln and Berkeley.
And I’ve been in the neighborhood since the 90s and my family arrived in Brooklyn in the 20s.
hey! i loooooooove that stroller! where can i buy one?
The terrorists don’t hate us for our freedom. They hate us for our doggy bakeries.
Glad you think that 5:06. Glad you read something that made you feel valid.
Buddy, I draw the line at paper pusher. Where do you get off with that?
I thought the more valid critique of the changing Slope was in the NY Mag piece last week. It’s not the strollers and dogs per se, but the sort of people pushing them and walking them. The Slope used to be full of a different kind of yuppie – teachers, social workers, public interest lawyers – many of whom could no longer afford to live there and even if they could might not want to. As a Park Slope resident who has witnessed the change, I think that’s a fair critique.