Valet Stroller Parking at 9th Street YMCA

I just wonder what has changed over the years to have made it imperative to have strollers with temperature sensors and pedometers since the days when my kids were little.

Best word ever = spawnocentric! Love it!

Re the article itself - I agree with comments 2 & 3 running below it.

Can we just decide right now - is this an anti-Park Slope parent thread or an anti-monster stroller thread?

Personally, I prefer if it was a monster stroller thread. We could keep the discussion going for weeks if that is the case.

The "I will be a better parent than you when I actually do become a parent" threads seem to loose steam fairly quickly.

And no, I do not have a nanny, a monster stroller or live in Park Slope.

Or go to the YMCA.

Get the fuck out!

I read this article in the paper, and its ridiculous how it has been spun.

I attend the Y (for prenatal classes, no stroller...yet). The Y is a FAMILY center, so of course it offers a good deal of parent friendly classes. Its not just Slopers who attend these classes, people come from all different hoods.

Space inside the Y is limited, and the strollers were clogging up the space, so the Y requested that parents park the strollers outside, and offered to have a staff member look over them. This is not all day every day, it is only a couple times a week during the hour in which the classes take place.

It is NOT valet parking. Nobody gives you a ticket, nobody tips anybody. There are just as many wonky strollers as there are $500 strollers.

The reporter saw a good photo op and spun the story however they wanted. Its silly.

NYkittyNY wrote: The reporter saw a good photo op and spun the story however they wanted. Its silly.

This.

And it is funny. Thirty-nine strollers lined up? Lol.

But then I think going past the Tea Room with the twenty foot deep stroller line is pretty funny too, so what do I know?

you know, given that the Times is about $14 dollars from going under, they'd allocate their resources to better stories than this. Who cares? and why does the Times find it interesting or relevant to keep rehashing the Park Slope crazy kid-centric culture? It's just not that interesting.

you can have mine. They keep leaving it at my door, even though the subscription has been suspended.

The NY Times ran an article on "Apartment hunting with children in mind" with nary a mention of Park Slope. Are we losing our edge?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/realestate/05cov.html?scp=1&sq=child%20friendly%20apartments&st=cse

Sorry I can't help but post this related commentary from NY Mag:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/everyone_in_park_slope_is_fat.html

I'm going to go out an buy a stroller. I just wanna fit in ;-)

(not in the stroller)

Pima, as the owner of a "monster stroller" (ie, a stroller that can fit twins and has inflatable tires so as to actually make it down Park Slope's uneven sidewalks), I can certify that they do indeed make it onto the subway. I go to Manhattan periodically and bump the sucker up and down the stairs. No turnstile gates though... you just go through the service door in each station. Easy as pie.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=Mamacita]People need to quit judging and hating on others just because they're different or have a different lifestyle. They're enjoying their lives, why can't you? You know?

Because 'they' won't let us. :twisted:

Poor Obamanut. He is so oppressed. :-({|= The YMCA providing a place for strollers just makes this world so cruel!

I love Joe. He never fails to say hello and ask after both me and my boyfriend (depending on which one of us he's saying hello to). He's incredibly sweet and the fact that he's doing this doesn't surprise me in the least.

And frankly, for the Mommy and Me classes, where the hell ELSE are the strollers supposed to go?