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
thank god i do not have kids or live in park slope
what a bunch of self absorbed whiners
that is hell on earth
ridiculous- people having babies in the city. trying to get them from a-b. sure it’s not like the burbs where you throw them all in the suv. what do you propose? stop having kids, stop taking them out of the house? seriously!
Just look at that ridiculous photo! Goddamned PS stroller moms.
WOW 10:52, step away from the keyboard. Way too over the top to be even remotely funny.
as a breastfeeding mom, that is.
And what is it about breastfeeding that stresses you so much? You must be very dirty and just not able to take the little glimpse.
I have been hoping for that.
The public breastfeeding is beyond the beyond. Get thee to a private place! I also wish I could stomp the wheels on all the carriages blocking my way at cafes.Most of these women are older post-career chicks who took fertility drugs, so it’s inbred twins they’re pushing along, insisting others get out of the way. I wish some teen age boy would just stand over one of these flop-boobed moms and abuse himself on them as they feed junior.
I go out almost every night. I have never seen a kid at Applewood, Stone Park, Al di la, or Rosewater. I have been to Blue Ribbon and Tempo hundreds of times and have never seen a child that was badly behaved. I have lived in the neighborhood for 15 years. I saw parents last week let their child run around the garden at Little D on a Friday at 8. It struck me as strange. Lats time I went out there was a really loud guy with an empty bottle of wine shouting about how much money he makes. As it turned out he wasn’t from the Slope. Not even from New York. It does get insane at Two Boots but that is the deal.
Thank you anon 10:28. I grew up in the slope in the 70’s and 80’s, and many of my classmates have returned to the Slope to raise their own kids. None of them fit the streotype Type-A parent, most are in a public-service related career, and most are just overwhelmed along with all of us, of the challenges of raising young children.