I am an Old Sloper and have been living in park slope for 40 years, I am tired of people moving to my block & trying to run sh!t. If you don’t like that my grandkids and the other kids from the block hang out on the stoop at 9pm get packing because the same way u bought your home my family & I have bought 5 buildings on the block & have several more in park slope, and we have the right to keep the “Hanging on the stoop” tradition going. We were here before you & we have our own so to speak “Customs”. Remember you bought a home in the city not some small suburban town. The same way I told my kids when it was time to come inside & when to keep the noise down is same way their parents & I will tell them, so mind your business or go back where u came from.

Whether you like it or not., we will still hang out on our stoops, throw noisy block parties, play wiffle ball, open fire hydrants (with approved FDNY Sprinkler caps of course), etc.. Deal with it and stop calling 311, obviously you are wasting the NYPD & FDNY’s time, they come by & don’t do anything because we are not doing anything wrong, they laugh (at you) & leave. Didn’t you as kids have fun in the summer wherever you grew up? Welcome to City Life…


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  1. Al —

    We haven’t met because I have never lived on one of your blocks. I have lived on at least five blocks in the neighborhood in the past 23 years. I don’t wish to extend an argument with you. You are obviously proud of your block, your family, and you love hanging out. That is all great and you are right that it is part of Brooklyn living.

    I have lived on three blocks with active stoop/sidewalk activity. Two were and are great, including my current block. The other block had a noise situation that was out of control (this was fifteen years ago). I can vouch that there are many good neighbors like you but that there are some blocks where the local mayor does not manage things so well.

    I know it must piss you off when newcomers call 311. But since so many people know you, why don’t you try to pull the block together a bit, and reach out to the newcomers? We make a conscious effort on our block to keep the old timers and newcomers and everyone in between talking to each other. It makes a big difference.

    Good luck and enjoy the rest of your summer.

  2. True story kids… And ummm yea I live on 7th Street Bet. 4th & 5th Ave, also have property on Garfield off 6th Ave, 18th Street & Carroll St near 3rd Ave, so im well known… Any real neighbor knows who alrosariojr is & can approach me if they have a problem with my post or anything related. If you don’t know me then u must be one of the “unfriendly” neighbors who dont socialize with anyone & have 311 on speed dial.

    Ms. Limestone if you lived here your whole life then you’d know that 311 hasn’t existed here for too long, so how would they have called? 311 came along because people called 911 for petty doo doo like a little noise & wasted 911’s time when there was real crime going on…

    And like I said in a previous comment, I know when its too loud & when its time to take it inside, so my point is if you have a problem with my grandkids you approach me or their parents, not them, they are minors & will not respond other than ringing my bell to tell me whats happening. Got it? I don’t mind if someone said for instance “hey, i know u guys are hanging out, its the summer, but can you tone it down just a notch.” thats ok, but dont yell or you will hear my mouth…

    Traditionalmod: I agree, no one is breaking into my home with my army hanging on the stoop. And people think twice about doing something crazy when they see potential witnesses outside.

    P.S. I love my Rican neighbors traditional, especially since i am one. lol…

    My email is alrosariojr@aol.com if you choose to email me with your complaints about my post…

  3. There was and still is a large family of Puerto Ricans in a building they owned on our North Park Slope block when we had a coop there. I never heard them playing loud music but they sat out on the stoop and on lawn chairs all day and into the evening in Summers, talking and sometimes loudly.

    There are real benefits to having neighbors like this. One day when most the residents of our building were at work, the problem kid of our building started a fire in the foyer by throwing things at the overhead light and his moron nanny simply ran out of the building in terror and didn’t alert the residents of the building. There no fire alarm in the hallways; the only reason I knew to get out of the building and to alert the woman upstairs at home with her infant daughter, was because the Puerto Rican neighbors who sit outside all day came over and rang all the doorbells. They’d seen the nanny run out the door shrieking and insisted she tell them what was going on. Then after ringing the doorbells the Puerto Rican neighbors even put out the fire.

    Another time in the evening they chased away a perp when they heard a woman screaming when some guy tried to steal her purse. Blocks that have people who sit on the stoop all day and evening are safer blocks.

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