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
“try economic diversity”
PS is not gonna fare well by that yardstick.
“What diverse actually means is….virtually homogeneous – just no or negligible white people”
yeah – WTF is up with that?
if people want real diversity try economic diversity american type of diversity is very perverse.
What diverse actually means is….virtually homogeneous – just no or negligible white people
rob, streetwise young’un that you are, I’m suprised you think “diverse” means diverse. What diverse actually means is…. Etson – what does the book say?
“see if it reads the same.”
It makes absolutely no sense to me either way, I’m afraid.
they be tricksy.
having lived in harlem before moving to PS, park slope looks pretty diverse to me.
*rob*
“hey if people have a white check box and created by the majority of people who also happen to be white, its okay. I didn’t create the term, white people themselves did. ”
In your posts – change “white” to “black” and “park slope” to “bed-stuy” and see if it reads the same.