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
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where else in this world are there babyphobes like ny’ers? I think we live in a city of stunted maturity. In the latin culture parents hang out with teenagers, babies, the elderly -noone sequesters themselves from babies like they do here. Unbelievable.
Anyone else noticing a whiff of misogyny throughout this thread?
NY times reporters cannot afford to live in the UWS, so their Moms comings and goings go unreported.
jeez louise, people, why so angry? life is too short. do what you like, live where you like, how you like, and let others do the same. i’m not from nyc, and i’ve never understood the outdated, nativist, elitist wrong/right side of the river/avenue mentality that is on display here.
as for PS, i’ll say the same thing to the times that i say to that obnoxious virgin mobile billboard so grossly misplaced at the corner of union and 4th (in the heart of the heavily latino west slope): “park slope” is not a singular neighborhood, with a singular type of stereotypical resident.
part of park slope’s appeal is that it is so diverse and spacious enough to accomodate it.
i just want to know how park slope moms differ from those on the upper west side? or the ones on the upper east? or in the west village.
please cite specific examples with photographic evidence of why these moms are singled out as being worse than others.
I was bitching about park slope kids the other day to a co-worker who lives in Bushwick. He looked at me and said “At least the kids are in strollers and not running through the streets throwing baseballs at you.”
So obviously no one has been in the poorer areas of brooklyn because guess what, poor people have kids too. They just cant afford strollers.
Park Slope moms stink. Their bodies have gone totally to seed. Their kids are spoiled rotten. Their sense of entitlement is suffocating. God spare us…
Chime,
I disagree with you about sandals but agree with everything else you said.
We deal with prejudice and racism the way the Victorians dealt with sex, a taboo subject never to be spoken about.
Everybody’s racist and prejudiced to some degree. I think we are hard-wired for it. But we are evolved people and we interact socially and professionally and hopefully are nice to each other and tolerant of each other’s faults.