“But overall, this is a neighborhood that makes New York living startlingly desirable. The park is close and lovely — getting cleaner and better all the time. Subway access is fairly spectacular (less so on weekends). Many mom and pop businesses are still intact. There’s decent coffee, good produce, and community theater. On a sunny Saturday, the farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza is as life-affirming as a place can be.

Most of all, it feels like a real neighborhood. Friends bump into one another. They chit-chat. They have impromptu picnics. Small boys climb trees! This is one of those neighborhoods that has kept a whole generation of would-be surbanites from becoming suburbanites. That’s a good thing, no?”

— David Shenk writing in The Brooklyn Paper


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  1. I’ve lived in the Slope for 26 years & like it a lot. But I’d like any place where I have friends & good neighbors. So much of what makes a place involves what you add to it – much more than amenities, etc. Stereotypes have scattershot accuracy – like a stopped clock twice a day.

  2. I like PS, and I am hoping to live there. I am neither a parent nor left wing.
    The proximity to the park is indeed its main selling point for me. But I find most of PS a relaxing place to be.
    I don’t care much about coffee, produce or community theater personally, but I can see how those things help a neighborhood. Also totally agree that better food / drink options on Seventh Ave are sorely needed.

  3. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

    Really? We’re still bashing PS? It still gets stuck in your craw this many years later? You still have this much hatred of a neighborhood? It’s like people have just been hitting copy and paste in the comments sections for about 4 years. Laughable.

  4. If you start with a bunch of stereotypes and pre-conceived ideas you’ll be able to find people to support them. But then of course you are ignoring the majority of people they don’t fit your stereotypes and pre-conceived ideas.

    The whole antipathy to these so-called self-centered or child hovering folks is way overblown. You’ll find that in any educated affluent area – whether in NYC or middle-america. Liberal or republican.

  5. Park Slope has a lot to offer, and I lived there for many years, but in the last few years the residents have become quite…bland. (7th ave is long gone but I’m thinking more 5th ave). The lesbians have moved out. Most of the old-timers forced out. It’s just couples and babies. There might be total of 4 single people in Park Slope plus almost no quick or take out food. Creates a bland scene.

  6. never in a million years did i ever think id love living in park slope, but after having lived there for about two years now i do.

    i can float around the neighborhood and have no ones eyes upon me. i like that. flying under the radar. it’s an easy neighborhood to completely be invisible in. no one gives a f*ck because they are so into their own little bubble. i like that.

    *rob*

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