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
Sorry but for those of us that have to go to a real job all day, with a real office and a real boss know that Freelance=Partially employed
Pure nonsense to suggest that a parent doesn’t need a stroller of some type with small kids… you absolutely do…
by four if the kid’s healthy they usually don’t want to be in a “baby”
stroller… of course there are exceptions.
Park Slope is what Brooklyn used to be before the drugs, so I don’t get these “realness” posts. Wow, a healthy thriving family-orientied community? Call the fire department. I hope this spreads to all of Brooklyn.
Regarding Tea Lounge: “One mid morning”? No way! It is baby and toddler packed every day, all day. And I am NOT partially employed…I FREELANCE! Not twenty-something anymore either…damn…
Re: Sam
Tripe-A status? One could have a lot of fun with that little slip …
David that was some sighting! oh lord!
too funny… and obnoxious…, but then funny takes over again! 🙂
Whatever happened to those convenient little “umbrella” strollers? saved my back when I lived in Manhattan, and was
very useful when I moved to Park Slope
and walked everywhere with my two year old… could fold it up easily just like an umbrella… great for city living… made for easy street navigation for all…
Why on earth the NY Times would feel that one mother’s first-person concerns about her own neighborhood is part of their credo, “all the news that’s fit to print.” They should set that gal-writer up with a blog and be done with it. If this is where the Times is heading then they are really, really in trouble. It’s ironic to me because often when they deal with national stories or international stories the Times feels that it isn’t necessary to stoop so low as to bring it to the local level of understanding since they are the paper of record for the nation. So if they are talking food stamps or emissions or whatever we never get even one or two paragraphs in the story about how the national/international issue faces this city and its residents at all. So now they think they should keep that distant above-it-all tone overall and then pander to the masses by bashing mothers in one neighborhood as brought to you by a mother in that very neighborhood. How very small for such a high-minded paper.
All these morons who say if a kid can walk they shouldnt be in a stroller clearly know nothing about what they say a clearly demonstrate how illogical their outrage is –
Little kids/toddlers ARE smaller then adults – they have SHORT legs – hence they walk slow and can tire more easily. If you idiots got your wish instead of being slowed behind a 2ft wide mom and her stroller – you’d be REALLY slowed behind a 4ft wide Mommy – holding the hand of her child as they slowly make their way up the street.
Re carrying kids vs. strollers: Bjorns etc. are great until the baby gets too tall (about 25″ depending on mom/dad) or too heavy (about 25 lbs). At that point, if they can walk, they can’t go more than a block or 2, plus anyone who’s ever had babies knows that toddlers have no fear or common sense, so you got to keep them confined. In the burbs, it’s car seats and shopping carts. here in the city, it’s strollers. Now, we try to practice courtesy with our stroller, but just like anything, some people are a bit oblivious.
Besides, having a lot of parents/kids out on the street is a good thing…the same people complaining about that are probably the same ones complaining that “Olde Tyme Breukelyn” where the kids used to play stoopball as the ginger ale man made his deliveries are long gone…