The 100 Best Things in Park Slope
Only the Blog Known Brooklyn has compiled the annual Park Slope 100: “100 stories, 100 ways of looking at the world, 100 inspiring people, places and things.” The list includes A Year in the Park’s Brenda Becker, “because in 2008 you decided to visit Prospect Park every day as an urban adventure (and, not least,…
Only the Blog Known Brooklyn has compiled the annual Park Slope 100: “100 stories, 100 ways of looking at the world, 100 inspiring people, places and things.” The list includes A Year in the Park‘s Brenda Becker, “because in 2008 you decided to visit Prospect Park every day as an urban adventure (and, not least, as a drug-free antidepressant!), and to chronicle your discoveries”; WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein, because “your reporting of Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign was always top notch, as were your stories from battleground states”; and “Jake the panhandler who stands in front of ACE Supermarket on Seventh Avenue and Berkeley Place because you’ve had a tough life, you always ask so nicely and you have such a big, warm smile.” Other mentions: Bill de Blasio, John Hodgman, D’Vine Taste and Medusa Salon. Read the full list, and if you have more, add ’em here.
“If she had been honest and simply called the list “100 people that I think are neat” it would have at least had some rationale to it. To make it into “The Park Slope 100″ IS the ultimate in navel-gazing and self-importance.”
Absolutely benson.
Brenda;
I take exception to your calling the author of this list a journalist, at least when it comes to this list. If she had been honest and simply called the list “100 people that I think are neat” it would have at least had some rationale to it. To make it into “The Park Slope 100” IS the ultimate in navel-gazing and self-importance. For Pete’s sake, she lists her landlord as one of the Park Slope 100!!!
Moreover, I happen to know a couple of the people she mentions. She honors a business person in this list that I have dealt with, and his or her firm borders on the corrupt. I’ll leave it at that -except to say that it makes me wonder how she selects people for this list.
Dave: I was saying, Lay off Louise, punks, she’s a nice lady. And at the end, (sigh, head in hands), I was…kidding.
billy…I wouldn’t think too hard about something in a Park Slope blog.
I have lived in PS for 15 years, I know only about 5% of what that list is about, This either means I am a total loser or the coolest cat in the slope, I guess I have something to think about for the weekend. Stupid list, by the way.
It’s just more PS PC navel-gazing. Bah!
Not sure what you were trying to say Brenda. And then to call someone shiftless at the end and jockey for position!!!!
Y’know, I’m a paleoconservative who was priced out of Park Slope 22 years ago, and I sneer at the Food Co-op and guffaw at “Stuff White People Like.” But snark is not the same as viciousness, and the piling-on here is a bit much. There are worse things than being earnest, a little naive, or even a bit entitled. What’s worse than being an affluent guilty-white-liberal Park Slope do-gooder? Being a greedy no-goodnik, a racist, an apathetic slacker, a half-witted cyberbully, or any other member of the vast pantheon of Jerks of Our Time. Many of my friends are, basically, Slope yuppies, and when I can swallow hard and ignore their ditsy politics and my own envy of their vast good fortune, I have to admit that they are fundamentally decent folks–I call them the camels that actually will squeeze through the eye of the needle. (Gospel reference, darlings.) Louise is a caring parent and citizen journalist who has, not incidentally, expended a huge amount of energy and goodwill to cultivate the Brooklyn blogging community and, yes, increase its diversity beyond her own demographic. If she is a pushover for the local panhandler, I can think of worse sins. I was touched and surprised to see her include me on her little list, (not least because I am, well, B of *Flatbush*), and I consider it an honor from a kind and generous lady who has done nothing but good for her community. (What is the female of mensch–menschette? If so, she is one.) I hope, however, that I am further up the list than that shiftless Jake fellow.
I could do with fewer “people” and more “things”
What about the parrots???????