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I love how you take words from a blog as fact.

Get out of your house and make your own opinions about a neighborhood! I don’t give a shit about the 100 best list.

I never said there were no nannies in Park Slope, nor did I say that nannies were a bad thing. They are oftentimes a necessity in this world we live in.

But I do live here and work on the UWS, and trust me…if I see a white woman with a white child on the UWS, it’s a RARE occassion. I can’t say the same thing here. And if you’ll read my post, I believe I said it was neither here nor there, so really you just want to argue and that’s not my bag.

I suppose you’ll have to do a survey and see how many nannies there are in each neighborhood in NYC. THEN you can prove me wrong.

Otherwise my own eyes I trust a little more then OTBKB.

Wait, few nannies in PS? Are you serious? There are more nannies than moms. No less so than on the UWS or UES. To the point that the OTBKB blog actually (and extremely condescendingly so) thanked them in last year’s ridiculous 100 best list:

“THE NANNIES OF PARK SLOPE because they really hold the entire neighborhood together by being there for the kids, caring for them, disciplining them, and loving them. Few families could exist without them (whether they pitch in part time or full time). NOTE: Why ignore the fact that thousands of hard working women work as caregivers? Just because people resent the fact that people hire other people to look after their children doesn’t mean that they don’t serve a very important role in this community. To leave them out would be a terrible omission. This is a tribute to them.”

8:46….

here’s a little more to read about on Park Slope, if you’d like…

http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/neighborhoods/parkslope.htm

Most people who make comments about Park Slope moms have never even been to Park Slope. They read stuff on blogs.

People seem to think that mothers who seek out the friendship of other mothers is being clique-y. It’s absurd. I’m gay, but I happen to have more gay friends. I guess I’m clique-y then too. My father likes golf and hangs around mostly other guys who play golf. What a clique-y ass. College students…all they do is hang around other college students. Damn then.

You know…this is the largest city in the U.S. Up until a few years ago, raising children here was all but lost. It would make sense to me that moms would want to befriend other moms.

Sure there are some bad apples. Just like there are in any group.

But I simply don’t see how there are any more clique-y moms in Park Slope as there are on the Upper West Side (at least in Park Slope you actually SEE some moms, whereas on the upper west side I rarely see a white child being strollered by a white woman) but that’s neither here nor there. Same thing goes with Tribeca, Upper East Side, etc.

Park Slope has been the product of some bad press and some really immature stories written about the moms here, that would otherwise be trash if written about mothers in another neighborhood.

I chalk a lot of it up to jealousy.

And your friend…8:46 is is quite ignorant. I would guess Park Slope would be a haven for a single mom. She simply has a narrow mind.

Whoever made the Sarah Lawrence mom comment…well they are just laughable. I’ve never heard of anything so asinine.

If you are interested in Park Slope…check it out….walk around…you’ll easily get a feel for the neighborhood.

Maybe you’ll like it, maybe you won’t…

I’m not 8:35, but I’m quoting directly from Lockwood’s Bricks & Brownstone (p. 286):
“Park Slope is New York’s largest, most intact mid-to-late-nineteenth-century brownstone neighborhood.”