[booklaw]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/.....artner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Who needs Beverly Hills? We have valet parking right here!!

[Livetotravel]

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.
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[sweet tea]

i'm with comment #4
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[pima]

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.
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[booklaw]

I began the thread.

Speaking only for myself, as a parent whose Park Slope kids stopped needing strollers about 25 years ago, I thought the availability of valet stroller parking, combined with the ubiquity of Maclaren strollers (some with thermostats and pedometers) evidenced gentrification run amuck.

The nabe is beginning to resemble Great Neck or the UES more than the slightly tacky, hippy-esque village I originally moved into.

I liked it better then, just as the folks I displaced liked it better the way it was when they first got here.

[Whatchuwant]

Get the fuck out!
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[Jamzer]

I think the Y provides this service so that the strollers don't clog the inside of the building. Since the YMCA provides child care, it makes sense that they need someplace to put the strollers.

On a side note, it seems more like self-parking with a guard than "Valet" parking to me.

[NYkittyNY]

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.

[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?
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[whynot_31]

Poor Park Slope, people love to hate it. They go out of their way to find reasons to hate it.

Park Slope is oppressed?

[new2hood]

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.

[whynot_31]

...maybe it sells newspapers. What issue was it in? I gotta go get me one.

[new2hood]

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

[eggcream]

Joe is the nicest guy. He has the patience of a saint. I prefer the strollers outside. Inside you had to wait till little Zoe was in the mood to move since Mommy wasn't moving her or the unloading and loading of strollers in that small entryway.

[witch-king]

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/.....y%20apartments&st=cse
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[maratl2]

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

[superjonbot]

I talked to joe when he actually started doing that and he keeps them outside for space reasons. When they used to keep them inside, they would get in the way, and some people going in and out would get annoyed and violently push them out of the way. good solution in IMHO. stroller violence is not the answer.

[kosherdave]

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

(not in the stroller)

[pima]

Kosherdave,

I've got two or three used strollers you can choose from, but none with pedometers or thermometers or altimeters or bicycle size tires or dual disc handbrakes.

A stroller in New York is pretty much worthless if you can't fold it up and exit from the subway in one of those revolving exits.

Since I have never owned a monster stroller, maybe someone can tell me if they will fit in those subway exits.

Soon the marketing for strollers will change, and everyone will want the teeniest tiniest stroller imaginable - so small that their child will not even fit into it, but ever so stylish!
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[8thandPrez]

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.

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[Jamzer]

[stacey]

[ljnd]

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?