Park Slope One of Nation's "Dreamiest" Neighborhoods
Pushing aside concerns about stroller moms and stolen laptop computers, HGTV just named Park Slope one of the dreamiest neighborhoods in the country. Edged out by places like Sonoma, CA and Chicago’s Gold Coast, the Slope comes in at a respectable Number 7 and is cited for its “historic charm, top-notch restaurants and shopping, and…
Pushing aside concerns about stroller moms and stolen laptop computers, HGTV just named Park Slope one of the dreamiest neighborhoods in the country. Edged out by places like Sonoma, CA and Chicago’s Gold Coast, the Slope comes in at a respectable Number 7 and is cited for its “historic charm, top-notch restaurants and shopping, and proximity to Prospect Park.”
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Murray Hill really is boring.
lol dirty hipster that’s a great story. honestly, other than the isolated hall incident with the kids in my building (tho it didnt happen this last sunday. yay!) ahha, i have no noticed any of the much talked about stereotypes.
however williamsburg and bushwick ive noticed really DO live up to their stereotypes. i totally think those are two most barfalicious neighborhoods in nyc. (and im a fan of industrial areas!) hey, we’re all allowed to have our opinions right?
*rob*
Dirty Hipster:
That is totally valid. The thing I see though is that a lot of the Park Slope “haters” (it seems) have never even set foot in Park Slope. Some of the negative comments I see about the neighborhood make me think that we’ve experienced two entirely different neighborhoods.
There is a difference between saying you hate something you’ve never experienced and genuinely not liking something after you’ve tried it.
I’ve been to Williamsburg 100 times. I don’t think it’s only filled with 21 hear olds and can certainly understand the appeal, but it’s still not a neighborhood I enjoy spending time in. I don’t consider that hating Williamsburg, I just consider that me stating my likes and dislikes.
Maybe I’ve being naive and that most of the people who say they hate Park Slope have indeed been there and didn’t like what they saw.
Very plausible, I suppose. Everyone has different tastes.
I don’t even know what I’m saying now…
Hey Kris – I hear what you’re saying, but I think the snobbery typically isn’t directed at the people who already live there. I am not a big fan of neighborhood hating at all. I live in Williamsburg currently so I’m quite familiar with the hating and misconceptions people have about my neighborhood.
Just last night I was @ a bar in the WV and struck up a conversation with what I thought was a lovely cougar (from park slope coincidentally) She proceded to lecture me about how Park Slope is for adults and the Burg is for children (cliff’s notes version) with an unbelievably snarky/condescending attitude. I tried to explain to her that Williamsburg is not just a neighborhood full of 21 year old NYU students, just like Park Slope isn’t filled with 30 something self-entitled, granola eating breeders.
She didn’t believe me. I finshed my Bramble and wished her goodnight and went back to talk to my boring friend from Murray Hill.
Kris,
I agree with you. I don’t know of a single neighborhood that gets such negative comments whether it be about stroller nazi’s, milf’s, tea lounge, bankers, ps. 321, etc etc etc.
I think part of the defending nature that dirty hipster describes is that some of us who live there not only don’t understand the “hate” but don’t even see what they are talking about.
I don’t hate any of the things people typically say they hate about Park Slope. I like all the kids. I find it encouraging to see so many people wanting to raise a family in the “big city,” actually.
If New York Magazine and every other real estate blog didn’t feed into each and every stereotype about the neighborhood, there wouldn’t be such a desire to stick up for it.
I don’t mind people saying they hate it, and certainly realize that it’s not for everyone, but it’s also clear from some of its distinctions like the one above, it’s not nearly as bad as the “haters” make it seem.
dirty hipster, I can honestly say I have not met these people you describe. But maybe that’s just because I live in Park Slope, and they don’t feel the need to proselytize to me. I do, however, know a ton of Park Slope Haters. Some are even my friends. Any mention of Park Slope and they feel the need to tell me that I am a total fool for living there, that it’s too expensive and it’s just filled with asshat bankers and stoller nazis… none of whom I know, but the haters seem to think they know better.
I have met a lot of Food Co-op proselytizers, though. And they are totally annoying.
Park Slope hasn’t got a cricket field. Thats the main deficit.
dirty hipster, I agree with you. I happen to love Park Slope (I don’t live there) but can’t help but notice those who live there are often the quickest to criticize other neighborhoods or, at a minimum, unfavorably compare other neighborhoods to their own. I admire their pride, but do find some are a tad overzealous in their defense of their ‘hood.
My comment wasn’t really directed to anyone in here in particular – it was more a commentary of people I have met in real life who live in Park Slope. You guys know the people I’m talking about – the ones who put you on the defensive about why you would want to live anywhere else besides Park Slope, and then go off on a diatribe about how this aspect of PS is better than _________ in ________. I think its great when people love where they live, but there seems to be a competitiveness and snobbery exclusive to SOME people in Park Slope.