Friday Links
City Council and Mayor Reach Accord on a Budget [NY Times] Panel Backs Smaller Rent Increases Than Usual [NY Times] A Zero-Tolerance Fight at Slope School [NY Times] Analysts Question a Threat by Fannie [NY Times] Philly Native to Head Brooklyn Public Library [NY Daily News] DOB Volunteers Build Habitat Homes in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]…
City Council and Mayor Reach Accord on a Budget [NY Times]
Panel Backs Smaller Rent Increases Than Usual [NY Times]
A Zero-Tolerance Fight at Slope School [NY Times]
Analysts Question a Threat by Fannie [NY Times]
Philly Native to Head Brooklyn Public Library [NY Daily News]
DOB Volunteers Build Habitat Homes in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
ESDC Gives Ratner Another $32.5 Million [AY Report]
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“oh please, yuppie parents from every neighborhood (in every major city!) are like that these days. it’s not specific to park slope. is it lame? yes. i really hope the future generation revolts.”
I don’t think so. Can you tell me that bullying in Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Red Hook, Canarsie, or Bay Ridge would be met with banjo playing and song singing? Nope. A more likely scenario is that a 4 year old would be instructed “If he his you again, hit him back then tell the teacher.”
Yes, parents are like this in many nabes…but it seems that when it happens in the Slope, it somehow becomes newsworthy, thus making them look like bigger ninnies than the rest. Why was this worthy of newsprint anyway?
oh please, yuppie parents from every neighborhood (in every major city!) are like that these days. it’s not specific to park slope. is it lame? yes. i really hope the future generation revolts.
*rob*
That article is precisely why so many people, rightly or wrongly, make fun of Park Slope and Park Slope parents. Sigh.
Yea, that should knock any life out of them
Ditto;
Yes, but perhaps making the kids do a couple of shifts at the Co-op will do the trick.
Color me surprised that the parents sitting around singing along to a banjo and trying a new school song didn’t solve the bullying problem.
“an agitated crowd of tenants, who have long used the annual meeting as a forum to vent their frustrations over the city’s soaring housing costs.”
REALLY????? 2.25-4.5% is soaring????
Entitlement at its worst.
“an increasingly rancorous debate over 4-year-old troublemakers”
These parents really need to grow up. This is a parody of everything that people believe about Park Slope parents.