Park Slope Stroller Nazi Story Getting a Little Stale
We’re not exactly sure why this was a front-page article the the NY Times Sunday Real Estate section—seems more like City section material to us—but, there it was, another article making light of the number of strollers (and implicit bourgeois existence of their pushers) in Park Slope. The fact that there are a lot of…
We’re not exactly sure why this was a front-page article the the NY Times Sunday Real Estate section—seems more like City section material to us—but, there it was, another article making light of the number of strollers (and implicit bourgeois existence of their pushers) in Park Slope. The fact that there are a lot of young families (some of whose matriarchs aren’t averse to a little public nursing) in Park Slope just ain’t news anymore, so let’s just settle the fight for the soul of the slope once and for all in the hopes that another article never has to be written on the subject. In the words of The Times article, is Park Slope “Hipster Hell” or “Parent Heaven”? Update: As of 4:30 today, there were 216 votes for Parent Heaven and 158 votes for Hipster Hell.
The Park Slope Parent Trap [NY Times]
Photo by Kansas Liberal
I will post, this is the most important topic of our time,
2:14, my god you are hostile. I keep checking back because I am mystified by how many posts there are about this absurd topic. r e l a x
i really don’t see a problem of strollers at all. some of you guys are overstating it.
1:54, I really don’t think it’s jealousy at all. I choose not to live in Park Slope because I don’t like how many people there are, how much noise, how much it’s like manhattan actually. It’s not envy so much as boredom.
so you choose to post because???
shall i rant on and on about how much i hate the upper east side and hope to get an article posted in the times about it and talk about it ad naseum on blog after blog???
please. if you’re THAT bored, then you might want to move to park slope to interact with some of those many people that you seem to hate so much. a little noise and human interaction might do you some good…
Brownstoner, nice move to say that the Time Article is old news, then open up the floodgates for old news discussions.
No one ever moved to Park Slope to be hip, ever. No one ever got advice from the N Y Times on how to be hip either.
Brownstoner should have three perma-discussions linked on the page:
1. The ‘I hate park slope’ discussion. Somehow it never gets old to people. Sub topics:
-Is park slope trying to hard to be manhattan?
-Isn’t everyone there just B-league for not living in the city, and don’t we freaking hate them for it because they can’t affort better?
-Isn’t everyone there too rich and white but even suckier because their not super rich and famous and don’t live in the Manhattan?
-Are the people who move ther really sucky because they breed and then use the sidewalks and infrastructure?
2.The impending AY Yards apocalypse
3. The ‘lefferts is too dangerous’ discussion for that one weirdo who always posts
she did nothing but regurgitate the same drivel that people always say about park slope.
anyone have anything NEW to add??
you can bash it all you want. it doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on those that enjoy it or the seemingly endless supply of people who’d like to live there. how about focussing on the glorious architecture or the terrific new korean place moim that just opened up. something besides strollers. for god’s sake…
1:54, I really don’t think it’s jealousy at all. I choose not to live in Park Slope because I don’t like how many people there are, how much noise, how much it’s like manhattan actually. It’s not envy so much as boredom.
I see Jen Chung of gothamist (childless ABC from jersey, now in UWS) has jumped right onto the slope bashing band wagon with a snarky little bit, and an impossible to use “poll”.
Pretty sad. Thought she was smarter than that.
http://gothamist.com/2007/07/09/news_flash_park.php
yes, 1:42….jealousy is a very ugly thing….
there is no reason to attack a neighborhood or it’s residents other than pure, envy. it’s one of the deadly sins, you know…
no one has forced anyone’s hand to live in park slope. if you don’t like it and want to attack it, there is simply no other reason for the past 125 posts…