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Anyone originally from Park Slope? — Brooklynian

Anyone originally from Park Slope?

native07
native07
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Seems to me that the good majority of Slopers are transplanted ones who know very little about the old neighborhood. Anyone out there a native or is this a yuppie board?
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  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    No, we've banished the natives to Siberia where they're making license plates for 3 cents an hour. Yuppie gentrifiers of the world unite!!!
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    Native. I bribed a Cossack to get me on the only train that crosses the Bering ice fields in to Alaska.
  • cat
    cat
    I guess you got your answer, native07. :)

    (sorry people sometimes get rude around old-timers or maybe they thought you were baiting. I don't know truthfully... at what point is someone considered an 'old-timer?' twenty years? grew up here...?)
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    I answered Native. I didn't feel baited. Although I did feel offended being stereotyped as a Gulag type laborer. Maybe we should move this topic to the "Nappy Headed Ho's" thread.
  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    What is it about being "native" to a place that people act like it's an accomplishment? Did they have some sort of pre-natal control over their parents' whereabouts that I'm not acknowledging? I try to reserve my judgment for where people choose to live (and how they choose to live) after they're all growns up, is what I'm sayin'.
  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    Rude? No. Slightly bitterly sarcastic? Yes. I've been in the slope since '95, but moved here because of my "native" wife. Ahhhh, the old days!
  • nkotsonis
    nkotsonis
    I was raised here in Park Slope. And sorry Cat, but I am also a capitalist Landlord.
    My family moved here in 1929.
    My father, another capitalist landlord, was born at the old Garfield hospital that is now condos.
    My grandfather was the original owner of the old Purity restaurant and my family had until my grandmother died in 1986.
    I remember the old neighborhood. Like Dennis Hamil and his brother Pete. The race riots in the 60's.
    I would also like to add that it was the old landlords that fought for Park Slope in the 60's.
    In case you don't know, Lyndon Johnson and HUD wanted to knock down all of the brownstones from Berkeley Place to 9th street and from the park down to 5th avenue. The federal government wanted to put up projects.
    So without the capitalist landlords, Park Slope would not currently exist.
    Why do you think we have the largest landmarked area in the country?
    So before you knock capitalism, it was capitalism that is giving you a home to live in.
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    jennitrixie wrote: What is it about being "native" to a place that people act like it's an accomplishment? Did they have some sort of pre-natal control over their parents' whereabouts that I'm not acknowledging? I try to reserve my judgment for where people choose to live (and how they choose to live) after they're all growns up, is what I'm sayin'.
    The OP asked if there were any natives who remember anything about PS history. Where is the bragging about accomplishment or prenatal control? What's wrong with acknowledging first hand accounts of history about where you live?
  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    Idlewild: Do you really read Native07's post so inocuously?
    Native07 wrote: Seems to me that the good majority of Slopers are transplanted ones who know very little about the old neighborhood. Anyone out there a native or is this a yuppie board?
    Seems to be a baited question and not one really interested in a nice little discussion of PS history.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    nkotsonis wrote: I was raised here in Park Slope. And sorry Cat, but I am also a capitalist Landlord.
    My family moved here in 1929.
    My father, another capitalist landlord, was born at the old Garfield hospital that is now condos.
    My grandfather was the original owner of the old Purity restaurant and my family had until my grandmother died in 1986.
    I remember the old neighborhood. Like Dennis Hamil and his brother Pete. The race riots in the 60's.
    I would also like to add that it was the old landlords that fought for Park Slope in the 60's.
    In case you don't know, Lyndon Johnson and HUD wanted to knock down all of the brownstones from Berkeley Place to 9th street and from the park down to 5th avenue. The federal government wanted to put up projects.
    So without the capitalist landlords, Park Slope would not currently exist.
    Why do you think we have the largest landmarked area in the country?
    So before you knock capitalism, it was capitalism that is giving you a home to live in.
    You're the only one who said anything about capitalism.
  • seven24
    seven24
    I'm a "native" . I sometime have this snobbish air about me when I speak to other brooklynites about where they are from.
    Like: You ain't shit I'm from Park Slope
    (not in those exact words)......How dare I?
    But I have yet to visit any other part of brooklyn that I would rather live in .
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Oh my god, are we going to go down this tired, old path again? Must this board always degenerate into a pissing contest between the lifers and those who came from abroad?
  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    Ohhh, go back to Minneapolis That Girl! (Just kidding, couldn't help myself).
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    BenInBrooklyn wrote: Idlewild: Do you really read Native07's post so inocuously? [quote=Native07]Seems to me that the good majority of Slopers are transplanted ones who know very little about the old neighborhood. Anyone out there a native or is this a yuppie board?
    Seems to be a baited question and not one really interested in a nice little discussion of PS history.


    I believe it's a question asked with a humorous note. Sometimes people on this board, native and otherwise tend to get bent a little easily by a perceived tone. Then again maybe the OP is baiting and is ready to inquisition transplants with a bible in his right hand and a Bowie knife in his left.
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    seven24 wrote: I'm a "native" . I sometime have this snobbish air about me when I speak to other brooklynites about where they are from.
    Like: You ain't shit I'm from Park Slope
    (not in those exact words)......How dare I?
    But I have yet to visit any other part of brooklyn that I would rather live in .
    I love all of Brooklyn. From bay to shining river to sludgy canals. My philosophy is one should see and experience their surroundings. Whether by bike, car, subway, etc.
  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    Can we all agree that, while we all love Brooklyn, we can still make fun of Brooklyn Heights??? I mean, move to Manhattan already!
  • beninbrooklyn
    beninbrooklyn
    Ok, THAT post was meant in jest Idlewild.
  • teafolks
    teafolks
    All this pissing aside, I do like to hear about what the neighborhood was like in the past. Find that stuff fascinating, and always enjoy hearing people's perspectives on how much or little (in some cases) it's changed.
  • theoryofpractice
    theoryofpractice
    I'm not from Park Slope, but Minneapolis won't take me back!
  • belzjm
    belzjm
    NKOTSONIS WROTE: "but I am also a capitalist Landlord."

    and a pretty crappy one at that, i might add.

    for someone from the neighborhood you sure don't do a lot of good for it.

    so mr. kotsonis...i'm curious what happened to those three leases you had out on the space below the dance studio (that you kicked out) that you referred to in march on this board?

    all fell through, huh???

    yeah, i knew you were not only a capitalist but a dishonest one at that.

    luckily for you i've made some nice friends in your building on 7th and union and will be working with other more helpful landlords in the neighborhood to have them move to other locations when their leases expire.

    you are talking to a new park slope resident that cares more about it than your family who has supposedly been here for generations so i don't think it's about native or not. it's about who cares.

    you don't, that is clear from the delinquent manner in which you choose to do business.
  • cat
    cat

    Subject: okay...

    I appreciate your post. You obviously care even if you *are* a capitalist landlord.

    I always thought the Park Slope Civic Council saved Park Slope tho' :) with landmarking... not the "capitalist landlords."

    I'm sure there were many factors and participants which is a good thing.

    It's hard to imagine at this moment in time anyone wanting to tear down the brownstones.

    Thank you for posting.

    It's hard to get annoyed at someone, even if they are a landlord, who clearly cares about the neighborhood and history. Although people can have many sides to them... that's what makes us human I suppose.

    I like to hear about the past here. I would like to see more of the past retained and more of the bohemian spirit of the past evident within Park Slope now.

    Cat.

    p.s. was the old purity better than the 'new?'
    nkotsonis wrote: I was raised here in Park Slope. And sorry Cat, but I am also a capitalist Landlord.
    My family moved here in 1929.
    My father, another capitalist landlord, was born at the old Garfield hospital that is now condos.
    My grandfather was the original owner of the old Purity restaurant and my family had until my grandmother died in 1986.
    I remember the old neighborhood. Like Dennis Hamil and his brother Pete. The race riots in the 60's.
    I would also like to add that it was the old landlords that fought for Park Slope in the 60's.
    In case you don't know, Lyndon Johnson and HUD wanted to knock down all of the brownstones from Berkeley Place to 9th street and from the park down to 5th avenue. The federal government wanted to put up projects.
    So without the capitalist landlords, Park Slope would not currently exist.
    Why do you think we have the largest landmarked area in the country?
    So before you knock capitalism, it was capitalism that is giving you a home to live in.
  • cat
    cat
    that is sort of funny. :)
    BenInBrooklyn wrote: Can we all agree that, while we all love Brooklyn, we can still make fun of Brooklyn Heights??? I mean, move to Manhattan already!
  • raw
    raw
    Yup, you're right. I'm from Ohio, theoryofpractice
    is from Minneapolis, and everyone else that posts on the Daily Slope is from Kansas.
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    BenInBrooklyn wrote: Ok, THAT post was meant in jest Idlewild.
    Tell it to Norman Mailer.
  • veets
    veets
    I wish I was a native Park Sloper but hey my Jewish family chose to settle in brownsville in 1907.... long time ago. Yeah native Brooklynite and grew up in Brownstone in East New York that would outside the best of the buiilding in Park Slope.. Lived here since 1981 and not embarassed to say I was embarrassed to say that we moved here in the 80's... it was the least desireable of the downtown neighborhoods then.. well perhaps Boeurum hill was worse then.

    Well I get the last lasugh.. bought a house for 110 thousand that is now worth 3.5 millinion.. But where would I go// I love this neighborhood!
  • cheflady
    cheflady
    Jennifer Connoley and Steve Bucemi are natives. Me? No.
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    I think Connely is a native of the Heights. I thought Buscemi was from Joisey. Lawrence Fishburn, Colin Quinn and Alfonse Capone are Slope natives.
  • cheflady
    cheflady
    Ok, well I'm wrong then. Sorry.
  • nkotsonis
    nkotsonis
    Hi Cat,

    I'm biased, but I liked the old Purity. It's a shame that my family had to sell it, but estate taxes cannot be denied.
    The old cook, Pete, used to make great roast beef sandwiches, and the pea soup was fantastic.
    I know the current owner of the purity by the hospital. He's a good guy. His name is Bill. Both him and his brother are running it well.
    I wish them the best.
    (add on) The park Slope Civic Council consisted of owners of the houses, one family and multi-family, and also store owners. You are right, it was the efforts of everyone that saved the area from the wrecking ball.
  • reader
    reader
    I loved the old Purity. I moved to the nabe in 1977, the Purity was a great spot for a decent quick meal.

    My husband and some friend were trying to remember what was on
    7th at that time, was the store on the corner called "Kitty's? The one
    that had any article of clothing that was necessary from socks to coats
    hanging up to the ceiling?
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