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

scottb2k

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."

livetotravel

"Park Slope has so much juice, just like Manhattan. It's got a lot of pizzazz and energy."

Where's my forum-provided barf bag???

ilovecarbs

Someone must have known this was coming. PS has become somewhat of a staple in filming locations. As long as they don't take over the nabe, I'm good..

carmen

if they start taking up parking spaces I can't promise that I won't start firebombing.

livetotravel

yeah, maybe a couple of these will show the ole PS juice...

whatchuwant

Subject: Re: There goes the neighborhood...Sex and the City set in PS

[quote="scottb2k"]

"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.
quote]

Oh, but that's exactly what it will be, my dear.

charlesbklyn

Subject: Already done that, gonna do it again ...

When I was a kid, Park Slope was almost identical to the set of Sesame Street on PBS. No kidding, there were many kids playing in the streets, in those days, and there was a mixed diversity of ethnicity and religion. The gang of kids I grew up with included everybody your can think of, and more.



Now and again, we are fixed for another television series concerning life in Park Slope/Brooklyn/Urban. It is not the beginning of a beautiful friendship with America audiences, as it has been done before (and well I might add), but there is something about Park Slope that is unique and special. It is closest thing to harmonious urban living, and the promise of something more in life than just the middle/lower end of our culture.

Mr. Star, you're here as our guest, so make sure the show is as good as the neighborhood it is being shot in. And remember, you burn us and we'll run you out of here like there's no "juice" left. Are we square?

Charles
Park Slope, Bklyn

P.S.

Park Slope has so much juice, just like Manhattan. It's got a lot of pizzazz and energy

Hey, enthusiastic writer for the show, this would probably be a good time to learn the language of Brooklyn and NYC, as I've never heard anyone say "pizzazz" or "juice." We tend to say "dope" "mad-ass/crazy" "you know" and "out-of-control" such as in the phrase, "that's completely dope ... that's crazy out-of-control, you know?"

Oh, and we don't have the "juice" like Manhattan. It's not like Manhattan at all ... if it was, you'd be shooting your series in Manhattan. Your in Brooklyn now.

brooke lynn knight

Let's see if the situations from "How to Piss Off a Park Slope Resident" start showing up. Bet you a dollar we see at least a few in the first season -- probably picked up from this very web site, if the writers are as lazy and unoriginal as most TV writers are (especially the ones who write "edgy" shows with "pizzazz").

I can see it now:

"STROLLER WARS" SEASON 1, EPISODE 1

Synopsis: Corporate Lawyer Maggie buys matching $40 Che T-shirts for her twins, Chaz and Ethan -- and sparks fly when she accidentally rams their Bugaboo into a Cuban exile wearing a "Che: Murderer!" T-shirt!

[Reference: "How to Piss Off a Park Slope Resident" #102]

cat

Subject: Re: Already done that, gonna do it again ...

[quote="charlesbklyn"]When I was a kid, Park Slope was almost identical to the set of Sesame Street on PBS. No kidding, there were many kids playing in the streets, in those days, and there was a mixed diversity of ethnicity and religion. The gang of kids I grew up with included everybody your can think of, and more.


That's really sweet. But .. is Park Slope really that now?

Less and less, you see that.

It's hard when you're in the midst of something to see how it's dramatically changing or has changed. But it has.

the chipster

Yes it is. I challenge you to find a place as racially and economically diverse as Brooklyn; even Park Slope. We all hang together, our kids grow up with children of biracial/lesbian/adopted/rich/poor/single mom/ single gay dad/ housepoor hippie parents etc... We can afford to trash this place because we can afford to.
And of course PS has changed darlin, but so has the world. Try being a Tutsi; a Bosnian; a Palestinian; a Moldovian; a Darfur native, and go check out your old nabe. Give me a break--Brooklyn is great and always has been.

cat

Subject: oh please.

The Chipster wrote: Yes it is. I challenge you to find a place as racially and economically diverse as Brooklyn; even Park Slope. We all hang together, our kids grow up with children of biracial/lesbian/adopted/rich/poor/single mom/ single gay dad/ housepoor hippie parents etc... We can afford to trash this place because we can afford to.
And of course PS has changed darlin, but so has the world. Try being a Tutsi; a Bosnian; a Palestinian; a Moldovian; a Darfur native, and go check out your old nabe. Give me a break--Brooklyn is great and always has been.

Brooklyn, of course, is great. But Park Slope is changing in dramatic ways, as Manhattan did, the West Village, the East Village, the Upper West Side.
get used to it.

dw438

Yeah, we got juice. Catlicks, too. Lots of those athiest folks. Even a few Commies.
Mooselims, I dunno, though some tried to set up a school nearby.
Is an "edgy mom" available?

scottb2k

The Chipster wrote: Yes it is. I challenge you to find a place as racially and economically diverse as Brooklyn; even Park Slope. We all hang together, our kids grow up with children of biracial/lesbian/adopted/rich/poor/single mom/ single gay dad/ housepoor hippie parents etc... We can afford to trash this place because we can afford to.
And of course PS has changed darlin, but so has the world. Try being a Tutsi; a Bosnian; a Palestinian; a Moldovian; a Darfur native, and go check out your old nabe. Give me a break--Brooklyn is great and always has been.

As time goes on and PS becomes a more expensive neighborhood diversity will decrease. Much like the mentioned neighborhoods in Manhattan...which in their past were very diverse and have become very un-diverse. IMO, I think it is fair to say that barring some major real estate crisis, Park Slopes most diverse days have passed.

Also, Queens is the most diverse county in the nation.

obamanut

Disgusting.

But really, who expected 2008 Park Slope to attract anything less?

livetotravel

dw438 wrote: Yeah, we got juice. Catlicks, too. Lots of those athiest folks. Even a few Commies.
Mooselims, I dunno, though some tried to set up a school nearby.
Is an "edgy mom" available?

Edgy Mom - what a great name for the TV series...this could be the lead-in...PS writer/mom/caffeine drinker - the new stereotype

belzjm

in case you've never watched melrose place or sex and the city (darren starr's most famous creations) diversity is not exactly the hallmark of his shows, barring the token gay guy on each...

brooklynpotter

Carmen wrote: if they start taking up parking spaces I can't promise that I won't start firebombing.

seriously.

a few years ago they shot an episode of "third watch" here, and parking was a nightmare for a week.

karl the druid

maybe it's one of those reality tv shows

that include troubled and disposable characters

with names like fiona and skyler

season one


season two


season finale


deleted scene from season one

metalnyc

do you think there will be an episode just based on people blogging and posting in forums? not like that happens in the slope.

and do you think they will call it, "THE SLOPE"? can they be that original? i doubt it.

i personally think they should do an episode about me driving around for an hour looking for a parking spot on a monday night so i'm on the correct side for alternate side of the street parking on tuesday. might be a little too racy for broadcast tv though - i tend to curse - A LOT!

eggcream

metalnyc wrote:

i personally think they should do an episode about me driving around for an hour looking for a parking spot on a monday night so i'm on the correct side for alternate side of the street parking on tuesday. might be a little too racy for broadcast tv though - i tend to curse - A LOT!

and cursing out those people who took up 2 spots.