Thursday Blogwrap

To: February 22, 2008 11:10 AM,

I was most certainly NOT ousted from PS you idiot. I can easily afford to live there. I chose to move because of the changes in nabe vibe, I RAN AWAY from PS b.c. of F&**(Kheads such as yourself.

You are definitely one of those people who knocks into others, acting important blabbing on your cell phone, as you rush to get your soy chai latte at Connecticut Muffin.

i lived in PS for several years and sold a couple ago. Made an excellent return. I have to say I moved for basically 3 reasons – 1) it’s too far from manhattan which leads to 2) getting stuck in the hood where the food, shopping, salons, entertainment, etc.. are very mediocre and 3) the people are far too un-sexy. they are simply not fabulous enough. i decided i wanted the high end NYC, not this kinda of either hippie or yuppie boring uninteresting mentality. some of the worst dressers, worst decorators in NY.

poster above is correct hoood went from ugly but sort of quirky to ugly and homogeneous.

It’s not envy. We ourselves DID own a place there, sold and moved elsewhere. It’s very typically American to want to knock down people who are so in love with themselves. Nobody likes a narcissistic snob who loves to sit around thinking about how everyone is so jealous of them. Americans prefer the underdog and anything undiscovered by the masses. That’s the person or the thing they think is truly cool.
Translation = Park Slope is “out”.

That’s it, the hating PS debate starts here. NO, it’s not ENVY. Most folks who hate PS now probably used to live there and they hate how it’s changed. My main beef with PS now is the crowds and its recent homogeneity. I lived there for 13 years. It was this lovely, lazy, diverse place. I HATE the fact that they tore down this neat car collector’s lot on 5th ave. and put in a – ug – DRIVE THROUGH commerce bank. WTF?!!! There used to be this mix of folks there — varying income levels, there was something bohemian about PS then. Everyone when I walk down the street lately looks like they walked out of a banana republic ad. Oh so bland. It’s lost its funkyness and uniqueness. I hate that it’s too crowded. Here’s the difference between PS and other less hyped nabes: In PS, people walk down the street and expect everyone to just get out of their way, to the point that they would rather knock into you than slightly move and/or say excuse me. There’s no natural give/take of space all of a sudden. I’ve been in more crowded (far less popular) nabes than PS where I don’t get bumped into at all walking down the street.

“Why Do People Love to Hate On Park Slope So Much?”

It’s called ENVY.