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
etson – its funny isnt – people like bkhabitant and SouthBrooklyn decry people in Park Slope as elitist boring snobs – when the only interpretation of their posts is that they are the judgmental snobs they decry – how else can you explain such definite judgments about peoples entire personalities/lives just based on occasionally walking down the street.
Les, not only that, in my experience stroller-pushers defer to solo walkers, knowing the soloist can pass through quickly while the stroller has to chug along.
dh and etson, good points.
Stroller Count: Walked 13 blocks(Berkeley to 9th) 7th Ave. on busy Saturday last week, total of 5 strollers (both sides of street).
If David Shenk has a double-wide stroller, you better believe he’s “entitled” to push it on the sidewalk. I’m really baffled by all the hatred of strollers (which is obviously just hatred of parents and children — how else would someone with two young kids get where they’re going?) Is it really such a major inconvience to spend 10 seconds of your time going around them? For God’s sakes, go back on the meds.
“Miss Muffett on April 23, 2010 11:48 AM
Brian Lehrer on WNYC”
Heh heh. Speaking of Park Slope stereotypes.
It’s always fun to hate on Park Slope – but I really don’t understand what’s so different in PS than any other gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood that seriously gets everyones panties in a bunch. I don’t really get a different vibe walking around Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Dumbo or Williamsburg – just as many white people and strollers.
Isn’t Blue Ribbon open really late?
> Now, food after 10pm? Nothin’.
Oh wait, I forgot Fifth Avenue diner between 8th & 9th. Good food, great service, open 24/7.
> Now, food after 10pm? Nothin’.
Yeah, you got me there.