February 13, 2008
Photo of the Day: Park Slope Trail
Photo by Jack McFadden.
This photo, taken on 5th & Union, pretty much sums up the war going on in Brooklyn. The fictional (but not really) "Slope Trail" includes a doggie bakery, luxury condos, a gentrified playground and spot to procure pricey Brooklyn T's. Everything you'd expect on an urban hike. The stencil even includes a "controversial" stroller being pushed by a parent (or nanny!) who is clearly holding a Starbucks coffee. We just hope they're not pushing that stroller towards Union Hall!
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The "KLEVER" tag is a fitting addition as well.
Anyone with a fetish for urban grit and desolation is free to move to Baltimore or Detroit. I'm sure they'd be glad to have you.
A "gentrified playground?" What's that? A playground which is not inhabited by drug dealers and junkies?
I watched a bum take a crap in front of Bierkraft last week - which is about .05 miles from the certified playground. Oh, and my nanny pushes a double stroller - we have twins.
#2 and #3, Agreed.
I watched a bum take a dump in front of biercraft last week - which is about .05 miles from the gentrified playground. Oh, and my nanny pushes a double stroller - we have twins.
thanks
Because, as everybody knows, nobody feels the negative effects of gentrification more than the white hipster-artist/rich kid set.
Because, as everybody knows, nobody feels the negative effects of gentrification more than the white hipster-artist/rich kid set.
(sorry if this is a double post)
Hey, wait, our Park Slope playground has its fair share of graffiti and used condoms...it's not THAT gentrified.
They missed the entry for "Weak, unoriginal pseudo-art - HERE."
Is there nothing in between Park Slope and Detroit? I'm not going to trash Park Slope because I don't live there and I don't have kids or really feel at home in the neighborhood, as I've really got nothing against it or its inhabitants, and I don't think I would have invented the phrase "gentrified playground" for this exercise, but what's inaccurate about the idea behind the sign? It doesn't seem offensive to me, just another means of expression for the folks who think of neighborhoods as personal accessories. Don't sweat it, folks. Having kids and drinking coffee doesn't make you bad people, but the choice is surely not either your lifestyle or slinging on the corner in Baltimore.
UGH. Just let neighborhoods grow and change. Stop complaining about each new crack on the sidewalk.
In the 70s, gentrification was used to explain how high-crime, lower-income neighborhoods transformed into what they are today. Park Slope is now, despite those who still think so, just a regular neighborhood. All neighborhoods in New York City went through gentrification over the past 100+ years, so stop thinking Park Slope is special.
But what is MOST ironic are the liberals who cry "no to gentrification", even though the idea that "change is bad" is at the very center of most conservative beliefs.
I consider myself a liberal and do not see the world this way.
gentrified playground = white, asian or mulato babies. no fully black or hispanic. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
If you're reading Gothamist, and you're a transplant there is a 99% chance you are a gentrifier. Plain and simple. This whole Park Slope bashing thing has taken on the air of an auto de fe. It's just getting boring, and I'm no big lover of Park Slope. I didn't hear anyone get all up in arms when the Slope was filled with dykes, so why all the family hate?
I'm sure the people who made that sign aren't native Park Slopers.
I'm saying! Us dykes were here way before you breeding motherfuckers came in and changed "dyke slope" to "obnoxious breeder slope." The bakeries are gone, replaced with goddamn baby clothes stores (remember Rodger the cat outside of Regina's bakery on 7th ave?). All the cool is gone. And get those goddamn baby strollers out of Union Hall you pain in the ass annoying morons. And seriously are you so fucking stupid that you can't figure out a double stroller doesn't belong in Gorilla?
But, I gotta admit, I love ya bastards. It's nice not to live in a fucking crack den.
God life is so confusing.
I get what the dyke is saying. but i have to disagree about the double stroller at gorilla; it fits perfectly. And there are plenty of dykes on fertility drugs littering your bakery-less stomping grounds with babies. And about Union Hall (which couldn’t be more annoying minus even without strollers)…where is a mom supposed to get her drink on during happy hour? So…I’ll buy you a muffin but only if you buy my coffee while I sit outside gorilla with my annoying twins and our annoying stroller and my annoying penis that screwed this whole neighborhood up.
I love you bastards too.
When you have to shit you have to shit? You think those idiots at Bierkraft would have let the guy use their toilet? S'en aller, ficher le camp!
I'm pretty sure that's a Manny or the Dad. And why isn't that dog on a leash?
You fascist yuppie bastards will have your comeuppance one day. Enjoy kicking us around while you can.