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
“”I don’t get the assumption in some posts here that people can’t be ‘interesting’ if they are white, straight, have kids or earn above a certain amount.””
You know I am thinking about this more carefully – I bet alot of those dudes I see in PS who appear to fit in this stereotype have sucked a dick or two – does that make them interesting?
lol its faster and easier to generalize and stereotype :p. than go into specifics of anything.
armchairwarrior – be careful when you use the word “all” – I am far from a NIMBY and I live in PS. No one advocates louder for density as I do.
“I don’t get the assumption in some posts here that people can’t be ‘interesting’ if they are white, straight, have kids or earn above a certain amount.”
Etson, its an unwritten rule you’ll have to get used to living in America. Another rule is that streaky bacon, used for garnish in the rest of the world, is called “bacon” here, whereas bacon doesn’t exist unless its an Irish store. Also “Greek salads” have lettuce in them, gales are storms and blizzards are snowstorms. And you can’t put more than 5 cents tax on petrol without committing political suicide. BTW, petrol is called gas. And when I say that I note that gas-powered cars aren’t powered by gas (petrol) but by gas (gas).
Its all in a book they give you at JFK immigration.
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if they had any balls they’d level there ire at wheelchairs and people with walkers
omg dont get me started…
*rob*
btw park slope, bococa, etc.. all of those gentrified areas are the same. just a bunch of white yuppies, who are huge nimby’s who should of live in the suburbs. I want my density. if you wish to preserve low rises and have your cars please move out of nyc thanks.
Lets give the Slope a rest for a while – can we all start hating on DUMBO now?
People who complain about strollers are total pussies – if they had any balls they’d level there ire at wheelchairs and people with walkers – but its just easier to bitch about moms since virtually no one will call you out for being an a$$hole
ah smug slope where the arrogant bastards don’t realize they are.