More PS Hate via the NY Times

dw438 · May 2008

The Times is infatuated with Park Slope. Any news nugget that comes out of here gets into print ... alternate side parking for one ... now this.
Bite me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/fashion/18slope.html?ref=style

"“Park Slope isn’t even part of Brooklyn anymore,” wrote one commenter on Gothamist. “It’s seriously a lower rung of hell, filled with hateful English teachers.” And on Eater.com, one posted comment said: “Park Slope and its ilk are why NYC is becoming more and more pathetic by the day.”

Yep: community fussbudgets, whiny parents, taverns crawling with toddlers, hip watering holes edging out old-man bars. It’s everything New Yorkers love to hate about Park Slope."

redmenace · May 2008

Wow - and seeing into the future no less. it isn't even tomorrow yet.

armchair_warrior · May 2008

park slope is cool only jealous folks hate park slope.

willregistersoon · May 2008

Author looks to be the person who started this thread a while back too:
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40811&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Geez - she's written 3 articles about Park Slope hating in the last 3 months. Wonder how much is just recycling of material. Not a bad way to make some dough.

the chipster · May 2008

I'm jealous of her. I think I'll write about journalists....

rose · May 2008

So freaking tiresome. I feel like I have read the exact same article a dozen times already.

pmckcon1 · May 2008

this cracks me up, and it's a fitting response.

“This whole thing sounds like white people being annoyed by and jealous of other white people, which I find kind of funny,” said James Bernard, a union organizer and a member of the local Community Board 6. “I live in the Slope. I love it. I talk about it as much as anyone else does. But I founded a charter school near Brownsville and I don’t hear anyone talking about Park Slope over there.”

this reminds of that wonderful blog, http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

santa · May 2008

the only people Ive met who truly hate park slope are self hating yuppies.

I know alot of people that are annoyed by park slope but I can understand that because Im annoyed by it sometimes too. However every neighborhood has its fair share of annoying factors.

however I find all this write up about park slope silly when every area of manhattan below 96th street is more expensive and filled with richer, whiter people who most likely have kids.

dw438 · May 2008

willregistersoon wrote: Author looks to be the person who started this thread a while back too:
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40811&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Geez - she's written 3 articles about Park Slope hating in the last 3 months. Wonder how much is just recycling of material. Not a bad way to make some dough.

The funny thing is, it's all recycled. What a way to make a living!
Compare the NY Times article to this one:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/kids/articles/around-town/10860/fightin-words

Says a lot about the New York Times these days. Desperate.

eggcream · May 2008

Another good reason not to read the NY Times.

ringrunner · May 2008

:P [-X :alien: :cheers: :pl: :afro: :elephant: :lame: :wtf:

:shaking2:

sweet tea · May 2008

english teachers can afford to live in park slope?

ahab · May 2008

I'm going to run her toes over with my piece-of-shit, $15 umbrella stroller.

sterling2000 · May 2008

What's amazing is how someone can make a living writing for the NYT by basically summarizing blog posts and wrapping it up in some other pretty uncreative writing...

Blogs seem to have become the short-hand story generator for all kinds of papers and magazines these days...not exactly stellar journalism...

dw438 · May 2008

If it weren't for blogs big or small, poorly written or professional, the city weekly section of the NY Times would be nothing. Neither would the Brooklyn Paper ... stealing stories is a fine journalistic tradition, as taught in the hallowed halls of Columbia. Blog post=newspaper article=television story.
Hell of a conveyor belt.
It seems some bloggers believe they speak for the borough as a whole, or at least some more affluent sections like this one ... the lazier journalists pick up on that and use them as "experts" in articles ... like they're professors explaining some sort of tribal custom.
The treadmill is endless, and shows of desperation.

arock75 · May 2008

This perception of Park Slope by the media and others is getting really comical at this point. Sure there are lots of annoying people with strollers in Park Slope, last time I checked they were just about everywhere else.

whatchuwant · May 2008

dw438 wrote: If it weren't for blogs big or small, poorly written or professional, the city weekly section of the NY Times would be nothing. Neither would the Brooklyn Paper ... stealing stories is a fine journalistic tradition, as taught in the hallowed halls of Columbia. Blog post=newspaper article=television story.
Hell of a conveyor belt.
It seems some bloggers believe they speak for the borough as a whole, or at least some more affluent sections like this one ... the lazier journalists pick up on that and use them as "experts" in articles ... like they're professors explaining some sort of tribal custom.
The treadmill is endless, and shows of desperation.

That's funny --when this "journalist" first posted here asking people's opinions, she kept saying, "I even married a local!" as if like, that's her street cred, or something. I wanna hear what the "local" husband has to say about PS!

the chipster · May 2008

And she is thanked profusely on Only the blog knows brooklyn. It seems to me that all bloggers "support" the same businesses and have the same perspective. No wonder I love this board! It's got flava.

j0518 · May 2008

I can be annoyed by dogs and strollers AND still love my nieghborhood. They don't have to mutually exclusive to one another.

Wouldn't want to live anywhere else in this city other than the Slope...

dailyheights · May 2008

I posted this in the Union Hall thread, but probably should have noted it here:

The New York Times reporter quoted BrooklynPotter from this board, but didn't give her credit for her comment - she just called her "a poster on Brooklynian.com".

I wish reporters would remember to give people credit for their comments. Just because someone's using an online pseudonym doesn't mean you are free from the obligation of quoting them using their chosen name. Though feel free to argue strenuously in the other direction.

drano · May 2008

Santa wrote: however I find all this write up about park slope silly when every area of manhattan below 96th street is more expensive and filled with richer, whiter people who most likely have kids.

Yeah, pretty much. Everthing that's annoying about the Slope is annoying about any one of two dozen+ neighborhoods in Manahattan (people in SI, the Bronx and Queens don't seem to spend much time on us) - but a lot of people in New York need to see a place as being as neurotic, shallow, self-absorbed, and irritating as the rest of the country sees them. Justified? No matter - as a late friend of mine used to say: it ain't' a lie if you believe it.

kosherdave · May 2008

Ha! The lost boy's hat (which seems to be mentioned in most of the articles posted in the above links) was the most recent start to maybe the best thing to happen to the slope! ;-)
I love Park Slope and secretly (well, not so secret I guess) love all the detractors. I feel that if people hate the area I live so much and for such obviously silly reasons, it must be a great place to live. Sure enough... it is!

drummachines · May 2008

Also, what's so unique about Novo Park Slope. I see ridiculous condos with horrible names springing up everywhere, even in Crown Heights. It's not a PS phenomenon.

new2hood · May 2008

this article is what happens when newspapers lay off all of their reporters...

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