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
4:43…i’m interested to know what your boundaries for park slope are…
and then bestow upon us what neighborhood you reside that is the picture of diverse perfection….
How about the infertile moms with the chinese kids they bought? Um, let me help you with this. See…you look ridiculous with them. It looks like a kidnapping pic! And no, they won’t grow up to be concert violinists, probably just paper the Slope (did I just say that?) with menus.
sam 9.41 and anon 9.44: if you guys could carry around my enormous 7 m/o (non-walking) baby, you would see why i have horrendous back and wrist problems and need a stroller. there is this in-between stage where a baby stops being light, especially if you are an out-and-about parent, and before they are old enough to walk for long-enough periods…
If Park Slope was filled with Black rich yuppies, would you all be complaining?
I don’t have kids but the doggie people can be just as annoying. You better think twice when you are asked “where did you get hin/her?” It better be a rescue or a Westminster breeder.
Militant Doggie Parenting. How ridiculous.
“the fact that you are arguing with me on it means that you don’t know a thing about it, so why don’t you stay out of the conversation please?”
ever heard of the concept called logic?
i don’t pretend other nabes are within ps. that’s the job of real estate agents.
i would say most people consider the neighborhood to be bound by flatbush, 15th, ppw and 4th avenue. i also think most people consider anything in the teens south slope.
the fact that you are arguing with me on it means that you don’t know a thing about it, so why don’t you stay out of the conversation please?
sorry but PS is not THAT diverse unless you pretend lots of other nabes are part of PS which you seem to be doing.
Re: the thread about safety– I left the front door of my PS brownstone unlocked and wide open the other day (by accident of course!) for 8 hours and came home to find everything exactly as I’d left it. Pretty safe, no?
I think Mr. B secretly revels in this topic and that’s why he reprises it every so often because he is a “cooler” parent living in “way cooler” Clinton Hill.