Facebook Brings Old Park Slopers Back Together

Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin (on his skateboard) and his BFF Josh Reznick (sporting JAMS) at Public School 321 in Park Slope.

Facebook has been stealing the attention of MySpace for quite some time, and today The NY Times takes a look at just how the 30-somethings are white-knuckling on to the past through the social networking platform. Check out the group Thirty Something and Grew Up in Park Slope, it's like a time machine back to the salad days for some, and for spectators it's a faux-nostalgic look back on a neighborhood they didn't know at the time.

The old locals aren't the only ones having digital reunions--just scan in some old images, "tag" the people in them, and suddenly you too can be starting at that girl who put rocks in your braids in kindergarten, or reminisce about "the great break dancing battle in the playground of Public School 321 between Alfie and Adam." And for our very own Jake Dobkin (pictured with his still BFF Josh Reznick), he can gaze upon his very first skateboard. He notes: "later that day I fell, and I ripped all the skin off of both knees-- it was horrible."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on October 17, 2008 2:35 PM

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Think2wice

Remember Friendster...took a second or so to recall that one, eh.

ed_Extinct

i think myspace is now widely considered the spot for sexual predators and bad indy bands.

KhuntienNang

you should check out dailyslope http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/07/09/park-slope-when/

or brooklynian (under brooklyn back when), those who lived in south slope back in 50s 60s just had their reunian. it was hilarious reading about their old stories, and also struggles navigating around online.

SuburbanAntiChrist

Not a bad picture of Jake but I wish he was bigger and in a less obvious place.

j0sh

Actually those are OP shorts, and so is the shirt.. Jake apparently had superior sneakers- my Reeboks look pretty hurt..

zodak

the bronx sucks & so does facebook.

FranklinBluth

Gothamist never has nice stories about the Bronx

Steven

Gothamist should start doing more stories about Queens. There is too much Brooklyn talk here.

matty

If you are white and grew up in NYC you get free jen carlson related posts for the rest of your life.

babyhitler

so all the white kids who went to public school grew up in park slope. I thought I was the only one who grew up in the LES. I was like the last unicorn out there but there were others and they lived in brooklyn.