Gothamist: Is the World Ganging Up Against Park Slope?

zinnia

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:33:07 -0500

you want an american practical joke? try being a minority growing up in the midwest!

Mott the Hoople

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:12:19 -0500

millions and millions and millions and millions of people packed into a few hundred square miles: you people realize this whole fucking city is just a titanic american practical joke, right?

Sharpster7

Mon, 19 May 2008 08:47:35 -0500

I agree. Y'all just jealous! Park Slope is Magic. Elitist Lesbian Puggle Yupster Stroller Mafia Magic!

BongoBoy

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:51:27 -0500

Jeezus, most of 5th Avenue in PS between Flatbush and 10th Street was bodega/nickel bag/needle park/dollar store/home boy territory less than 10 years ago ... some even say 5. Now its getting almost as crowded as Manhattan's 5th Avenue at Christmas with all those twee chi-chi restaurants and clothing boutiques for anorexics. Even John Jay HS is gentrified, and has a sub-school for law and journalism, of all things! Popularity has its faults ... PS now is overrun with spoiled brats of all ages ... and all those tourists from Minneapolis or Bergen Co. who decide to rent or buy there. Even the dykes are leaving to Rockland County to raise their kids. Now there will be parking wars in PS since with a temporary lifting of alternate side of the street parking regs ... people will park for two months and won't move and the streets will be Park Slob. Oh well, more material for Gawker and Gothamist.

bornbrednewyorker

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:40:26 -0500

Baumbach is right. Most of you are too young to remmber a much different Brooklyn. I remember when Park Slope and Williamsburg were considered bad areas. They were havens for drug dealing. The bodegas all sold dime bags. The good old days!

Dave Hogarty

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:55:10 -0500

sonyactivision

Sun, 18 May 2008 16:24:55 -0500

The stroller parade crowd are as uptight as it gets. It's not even Old Money uptight, but New Money uptight: the kind of uptight where the mother-to-be wife chooses your friends for you and where businesses that aren't child-friendly get driven out with torches and pitchforks. These people are savages.

David McCaffredy

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:51:06 -0500

"Hipsters and people who don’t have kids are terrified of becoming grown-ups and parents, which is what Park Slope has come to represent." I actually agree with that quote. I'm terrified that when I have kids, I'm going to turn out like one of these entitled a-holes that live there and actively force out any person or business that is not exactly like they are. My god - where do they think we live... the city?

kcin122

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:45:16 -0500

they should add "complaining about Park Slope" on that stuff white people like website.

EastRiver

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:37:31 -0500

I'm getting really tired of every jackass excusing their own behavior by saying the rest of us "are just jealous" of their money. I have plenty of money and choose to live as far from the assholes as possible while still within the city limits.

babyhitler

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:24:05 -0500

I don't mind the young nubile women in park slope. It's the old ones who live vicariously through their brats that are the vicious one.

smitty

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:17:40 -0500

I like Park Slope.

Brainwash

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:45:43 -0500

In the 1970 Beau Bridges film "The Landlord," Park Slope is referred to with horror as "a colored neighborhood." It was on HBO or Showtime last week. I cracked up.

Kevin Walsh

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:42:16 -0500

I'm arming for when they come after Little Neck. www.forgotten-ny.com

matty

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:38:45 -0500

Weren't baumbach's parents exactly the kind of self-centered me generation yuppies that define the current residents of the neighborhood. Doesn't seem like much has changed.