There goes the neighborhood...Sex and the City set in PS

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302008/news/regionalnews/call_it_slope__the_city_108772.htm

HE NEW YORK POST
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
CALL IT 'SLOPE & THE CITY'
'CARRIE' GALS COMING TO B'KLYN
By BILL HOFFMANN, MATTHEW NESTEL and LEONARD GREENE
After years of taking shots from Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, Brooklyn is about to get its due.
Producers are giving Park Slope the star treatment with a pilot by the same executives who brought "Sex and the City," starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and "Melrose Place" to TV.
According to industry sources, Darren Star, who created those smash shows, has teamed with Sony and NBC for a proposed series about a group of affluent characters who live in the upscale Brooklyn neighborhood.
Sue Kramer, who wrote and directed the 2006 romantic comedy "Gray Matters" starring Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan and Molly Shannon, is writing the script.
"It's an hour-long dramady," Kramer, who lives in Park Slope, told Page Six.
"It takes place in Park Slope and Park Slope is one of the characters in it. Park Slope has so much juice, just like Manhattan. It's got a lot of pizzazz and energy."
The show remains untitled and has not yet been cast, but will have the usual staples of a Darren Star project: laughs, drama, heartbreak - and, of course, sex, sources say.
If the show gets the green light, viewers can see the first episode sometime next year. Exteriors will be shot in and around Park Slope, which three years ago was the setting for Noah Baumbach's acclaimed flick, "The Squid and the Whale."
"As a Park Sloper, I'm flattered that they would think of portraying our neighborhood in a positive way," said Craig Hammerman, district manager of the neighborhood's Community Board 6.
"Hopefully, it will go far in combating the negative stereotypes people have about Brooklyn."
Hammerman envisions a signature shot of the Soldiers and Sailors Arch at Grand Army Plaza, and long views of the stores on Fifth and Seventh avenues.
"It would be easy to create stories based on this neighborhood," said social worker Rachel Goldstein, 33. "I love living here."
Of course, no show about Park Slope would be complete without at least one storyline about yuppie moms and their sidewalk-crowding strollers.
Stroller mom Barbara Buenz, 35, said she liked the attention her neighborhood is getting - but hopes the show avoids stereotypes.
"I hope it's not going to be a bunch of moms doing Pilates and drinking their lattes because that's not me," said Buenz, a graphic designer with two children in tow.
Her neighbor, Eric Hipp, 43, had mixed feelings about the project.
He lived in Chelsea during some of the "Law & Order" years, and said crews from that show took over the neighborhood.
"It's kind of neat," he said of the Park Slope production, "just as long as they don't gum up the works."