Worst corners/blocks in Park Slope RANT

I am a grumpy old man today. Don’t hold the train because your fat girlfriend can’t get up the steps in time; Don’t hold conversations with people when you’re on the treadmill (tip: if you’re talking about how much you loved Julie and Julia you’re not moving fast enough); and Don’t sit on other people's stoops and talk on your cellphone...Seriously. If you want to help pay my rent you can take a load off and bitch about how your boss doesn’t know what she’s doing.

Now that I've established by cranky credentials I want to know what the worst corners/blocks are in PS.

I'll get us started.

18th street between 6th and 7th avenues
I lived across the school there for 3 years and every night kids would be in the school’s courtyard, playing baseball till midnight. Imagine hearing an aluminum bat hitting a ball, screaming, and a bat dinging on the pavement every 30 seconds. Add to this the clown who would wash his car every weekend with the stereo pumping bass so hard my windows rattled … it made me want to firebomb the street.

The corner of 7th Avenue and 12th street
What is the deal on this block? People always hanging out on their stoops, kids screaming in the street, shady types hanging on the corner eyeballing everyone. Every time I walk by I think "Man, I'm glad I don't live here.”

The corner of 5th and 5th
That poor deli. I went in there one night and the owners were trying to get three punks to leave because they were just sitting on the ice-cream case texting their friends and swearing. They ended up just hanging outside and being even louder and ruder.

This is my new favorite: the basketball/handball/skate park behind the Old Stone House.
I walked by last night and it was like a war zone with skaters banging their boards, basketballers swearing at each other, and just the usual teenage craziness. Must be peaceful to come home to every night.

Living above C-Town on 9th Street
Do you love delivery trucks at 7am? How about ratty-ass delivery vans cranking shit music all afternoon? Like the sporadic sound of metal carts hitting cement poles? Then this is the place for you!

That's my rant. Flame away or add your own corners of irritation. And before some clown says: That's life in the city. I know it's life in the city but it doesn't mean I have to cuddle with it. Sometimes I just like to bitch. If nothing else this might be a more interesting topic than “Where can I get eyeglasses?” Answer: google it. Or “What happened to CNN?” Answer: google it.

As I said, grumpy today.