In Defense of Park Slope
“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…
“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
Pete! Why are you jumping on me for Sam’s comment! I was just trying to make a joke…
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It’s just couples and babies
As a park slope landlord with many apartments I can tell you that ALL my tenants are single 20-somethings.
I am a Black woman married to a Black man who have lived in Park Slope almost 20 years. You probabaly don’t like Park Slope because you don’t live here. It is a lovely, quiet, peaceful neighborhood. Yes, the demographics of the neighborhood has changed in the time we were here, but
it hasn’t taken the “interesting” out of it. When did being part of a family become boring? Park Slope rents are the same as other neighborhoods in Brooklyn. When we had to move from the house that we lived in for 15+ years because our landlord sold the house, we found our condo where we came in as a rental (and we are going to buy) for less than we were paying in rent. Stop pickin’ on my neighborhood. Don’t be a hater! It’s a nice place! It needed to be said.
I may also be pointless weighing in, but i lived in Park Slope from 1998 to 2007. Rent started at $750 a month, and in almost 10 years only went up to $1062. Now, yes, I understand that was quite a while ago and times have changes considerably, but i do believe the reason my rent was so low was because my landlord like me– i paid on time and did not complain. I could change a lightbulb by myself and unless my kitchen cabinets were falling off the wall, wasn’t ringing him at all hours of the day and night. The other 7 tenants he had most likely were not like this.
So maybe thats only 7 people in Park Slope, but they were there none the less. And this was on 11th Street b/t 7th and 8th- prime Slope location IMHO.
ok, ok, i know it’s pointless to weigh in here, but i’ve lived in park slope for years and there are still some affordable places to live. it’s not *just* for rich people. i’ve never paid more than $650 a month to live in park slope since 2000. anyone else had good luck?
“Park SLope is known to have more writers than anywhere. I guess they are not ‘interesting’ any more. ”
not if they’re white or have functioning reproductive organs.
so get a bicycle, Tybur, if F train is such a problem.
But stay in the bikelanes, please.
“park slope is so far from manhattan? once you’ve walked everywhere and done everything?”
Funny, Pete, I walked from the far South Slope to Wall Street this morning. So, Manhattan withing walking distance. At least for crazies like me.
Park SLope is known to have more writers than anywhere. I guess they are not ‘interesting’ any more.
I can’t believe you people are still discussing this inane article.