Colin Quinn Trashes "New" Park Slope

Colin Quinn—who you most likely best know from MTV's Remote Control—recently discussed his upbringing in... Park Slope. The old Park Slope. His home on 1st Street would probably look different if he revisited it now; he says back in the day the neighborhood was filled with places like Greasy Jack's (which has a whole Facebook thread in tribute to it), Cheap Andy's (two burgers for a quarter), Al's Toy Land and Danny's Candy Store.

"Today? It's Whole Food lesbian baby carriage stores! It looks like a Swiss village! There's a Domino's Pizza on Coney Island Avenue! I'd rather live on soulless 56th Street" in Manhattan. (Which, incidentally, he does.)

Sounds like Park Slope is really messing with this guy's head! As the publisher of this site once said, "I don't understand why child abuse survivors and bulimia survivors and cancer survivors get Lifetime movies, but Park Slope in the 80s survivors don't get shit—except The Squid and the Whale." Perhaps those two can star in an "old" Park Slope buddy dramedy together. [via FIPS]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on April 5, 2011 1:35 PM

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robingee

Years from now if Detroit is made over into a thriving metropolis, old folks will lament the Mad Max times they were living in, back in the 90's and aughts. Them's were the days.

Halloween_Jack

When you're a kid, you go nuts over hamburgers that are nothing but grease sponges, candy that's pure colored sugar, and toys that fall apart after three days. There are plenty of places in NYC where he can still get those, but I'd bet that he wouldn't be caught dead there, let alone live there.

Trustafarian

if the slope was so awesome "back in the day" - why'd he move out?

Daniel Albanese

Hate to break it to him, but Park Slope hasn't really changed that much.

Hooshe

Please tell me they still have bingo on 5th Avenue...

sommelier

Yeah... the old Park Slope. Hookers, dope dealers, gangsters, gun dealers, winos, crackheads. Ain't gentrification a bitch?

Adam Rubens

When people like Colin Quinn move out of Park Slope, Park Slope becomes less desirable to people like Colin Quinn.

Cromarties_Innumerous_Basterds

Guess he's not goin' back to Brooklyn ('scuse me, I don't think so) after all.

MattyGC

I dunno, i grew up in a rough area of Chicago. A lot of it has gentrified, I don't mind it. Honestly, better than the alternative where it turns back into the 1980's post-apocalyptic warzone that it was back then...

Guest

It WAS a great neighborhood, though.

jibbly

Meh, Norm MacDonald was a funnier weekend update guy than him.

bigmikebrooklyn

even harry caray referred to him as Norm.

ptginnyc

Assuming he still lives in NY, he's probably in some fancy Manhattan apartment being loathed by people who grew up in the neighborhood that once was. Progress is a bitch.

thesporkgirl

lol nostalgia.

BKPhil

"It looks like a Swiss village" - um, what? What does a Swiss village look like, allegedly?

And Coney Island Avenue... what's that got to do with Park Slope?

I blame the Post - Colin's a funny guy and probably talks a lot of obnoxious shit, but the New York Pest just can't help itself when it comes to twisting our nipples.

I would elaborate some more, but there's an Israeli panty controversy I need to explore in detail for the 116th time.