Unbridled insult to an entire community- Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/04/24/2009-04-24_best_of_brooklyn_real_estate_deals_neighborhoods_quirks_and_more.html?page=0

Wow, since most Park slope residents are too smart to read the Daily News...

5. Most argumentative ’hood: Park Slope
While the old-timers still complain about newbies not keeping their stoops clean and double-parking, the newcomers have finally found their own thing to fight about — whether or not www.parkslopeparents.com should charge a $25 fee. It doesn’t matter what they’re arguing about, these people have too much time on their hands. With more development coming to Fourth Ave., we’re sure you’ll see a slew of protests soon from this neighborhood where residents like to take on causes and everyone thinks they’re smarter than the next person.

It’s a far cry from the old days, when police officers and other civil servants worked hard to raise their families on these beautiful streets. Park Slope has become Greenwich Village of the 1960s, with online bulletin boards replacing soapboxes in Washington Square Park .

I'm sure you'll get over it.

Yeah, I agree with RingRun. As I simultaneously hit the Page 2 button on the Daily News article, I found my eyes rolling. I'm not surprised by the DN and their comments on Slopers. If anything it will supply people with a topic to talk about (hence this post), and give more energy to the DN then they deserve (I've already wasted about 5 minutes here).

Someone let me know when their paper has folded, so I can sleep a little more soundly at night.

Grandpa Munster, welcome to Brooklynian.

Here's the peculiarity of all this new-fangled internet-torious communication. . . at some very basic level THEY'RE NOT TALKING TO YOU. It would be more obvious if you were overhearing a conversation in a laundromat, instead of poking around online. (i'm not talking about grandpa munster anymore btw - we ARE talking to you, as a participant on this board)

Park Slope Parents (and for that matter, Brooklynian posters and people on Facebook) are talking to each other. Reporters and other people who happen to read this stuff don't seem to realize they are not the intended target of the conversation just because they can read the conversation in a public forum.

"these people have too much time on their hands" is my current least favorite argument to belittle anything...

Subject: Changes

The same that is being said about Slope denizens has been said about the newcomers to Cobble Hill, Sunset Park, etc. - change is difficult to accept. Give it time.

As a born and bred Brooklynite, it was difficult to let go of the familiar and those familiar to me. The butcher I went to as a kid with my mom - who knew everyone by name and was a neighborhood fixture - gone. But the new Peruvian restaurant that took over the space provides something new and welcome.

If you argue about something - probably means that you are passionate about it. New blood, new roots and new passion for Brooklyn keeps it what it was, is and will be - a real home.

Only complaint - if you moved here, make it your home. Be proud and argue for what you feel is right for your new home.

And for those of you who abandoned Brooklyn and now gripe about how this group or that group changed the neighborhood - SHUT UP. You left. Case closed. If YOU were so passionate about it you would still be here and arguing to make it better.

As another born and bred brooklynite, I can safely assure everyone that Gerritsen Beach is a freakin dump who DO NOT welcome new people (unless you are irish or italian.) And Marty needs to shut the f**k up already!

Subject: Re: Changes

Domino wrote: The same that is being said about Slope denizens has been said about the newcomers to Cobble Hill, Sunset Park, etc. - change is difficult to accept. Give it time.

As a born and bred Brooklynite, it was difficult to let go of the familiar and those familiar to me. The butcher I went to as a kid with my mom - who knew everyone by name and was a neighborhood fixture - gone. But the new Peruvian restaurant that took over the space provides something new and welcome.

If you argue about something - probably means that you are passionate about it. New blood, new roots and new passion for Brooklyn keeps it what it was, is and will be - a real home.

Only complaint - if you moved here, make it your home. Be proud and argue for what you feel is right for your new home.

Right on Right On, Domino!

p.s. lots of these articles get their start (or inspiration, if you will) from this message board, in case you haven't noticed.

the more you talk about it here, the more you are fueling the fire for these kinds of idiotic articles.

parkslope slumdog wrote: As another born and bred brooklynite, I can safely assure everyone that Gerritsen Beach is a freakin dump who DO NOT welcome new people (unless you are irish or italian.) And Marty needs to shut the f**k up already!

I was wondering about that part of the article myself. I don't think you can go past one yard, front or back, on the side streets without seeing a rottweiler, or the like, guarding the house. And the dogs are almost as big as those small yards.

Idlewild wrote: [quote=parkslope slumdog]As another born and bred brooklynite, I can safely assure everyone that Gerritsen Beach is a freakin dump who DO NOT welcome new people (unless you are irish or italian.) And Marty needs to shut the f**k up already!

I was wondering about that part of the article myself. I don't think you can go past one yard, front or back, on the side streets without seeing a rottweiler, or the like, guarding the house. And the dogs are almost as big as those small yards.

Oh yea, I grew up in Sheepshead Bay. If you didn't know anything you knew to say out of Gerritsen Beach. They didn't even let the Fire Dept in. They had their own.

Just ticks me off

Domino wrote: And for those of you who abandoned Brooklyn and now gripe about how this group or that group changed the neighborhood - SHUT UP. You left. Case closed. If YOU were so passionate about it you would still be here and arguing to make it better.

I agree. In theory. But some of us, for reasons economical or otherwise cannot move out. So we argue to commiserate, or vent. (At least I do)
Park Slope has changed because of the influx of wealthy white Masters of the Universe...but cities are always changing..I can still enjoy the secret places that nyc will always have. And maybe find out about other ones on boards like this.
Folks are "smarter" , i.e., overly informed here. But that doesn't make them better. Makes alot of em just plain rude and nasty.

I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

ringrunner wrote: [quote=Idlewild][quote=parkslope slumdog]As another born and bred brooklynite, I can safely assure everyone that Gerritsen Beach is a freakin dump who DO NOT welcome new people (unless you are irish or italian.) And Marty needs to shut the f**k up already!

I was wondering about that part of the article myself. I don't think you can go past one yard, front or back, on the side streets without seeing a rottweiler, or the like, guarding the house. And the dogs are almost as big as those small yards.

Oh yea, I grew up in Sheepshead Bay. If you didn't know anything you knew to say out of Gerritsen Beach. They didn't even let the Fire Dept in. They had their own.

The only other place I can think of resembling Gerritsen in NYC is Broad Channel.

on a slightly different tangent about the daily news, beaverhausen tells me that my work was featured in today's copy.

anyone have one?

DanielJ wrote: I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

The Daily News is read by the Archie Bunkers and Rudy Giulianis of the world.

I read The Daily News. I voted for Kerry in '04 & Obama in '08.

ringrunner wrote: [quote=DanielJ]I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

The Daily News is read by the Archie Bunkers and Rudy Giulianis of the world.

You're confusing the News with The Post
:roll:

Idlewild wrote: I read The Daily News. I voted for Kerry in '04 & Obama in '08.

Sorry, I was just trying to imagine who they were trying to apple to in insulting "Park Slope's new residents".

ringrunner wrote: [quote=DanielJ]I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

The Daily News is read by the Archie Bunkers and Rudy Giulianis of the world.

You're thinking of the New York Post. The Daily News if for liberals.

brooklynpotter wrote: on a slightly different tangent about the daily news, beaverhausen tells me that my work was featured in today's copy.

anyone have one?

Let me know by Saturday morning if you don't find a copy and I will ask my local bodega if they have any leftovers (they have to return the copies by the next day to the newspaper companies to get credit for unsold copies).

thanks danielle!

danielle123 wrote: [quote=ringrunner][quote=DanielJ]I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

The Daily News is read by the Archie Bunkers and Rudy Giulianis of the world.

You're thinking of the New York Post. The Daily News if for liberals.
The Daily News is not for liberals. It's for blue collar people who aren't as conservative and brain-dead as Post readers, or people who want a good sports section that don't want to read the Post. It's only liberal in comparison to the Post. By any other rational standard, the Daily News is right wing.

The Daily News is for people who don't want to schlep through the wordiness and repetitiveness of the NY Times. G-d! Do I miss the NY Sun.

NY Newsday was da bomb!

LOL - its not an insult to entire community.

its the hard truth about many of the people on THIS BOARD.

the one thing that i am disappointed in is that the writer didnt point out majority of posts in that thread were not made by people who actually live in park slope. as is the case with alot of the asinine threads.

ringrunner wrote: Wow, since most Park slope residents are too smart to read the Daily News...

5. Most argumentative ’hood: Park Slope
While the old-timers still complain about newbies not keeping their stoops clean and double-parking, the newcomers have finally found their own thing to fight about — whether or not www.parkslopeparents.com should charge a $25 fee. It doesn’t matter what they’re arguing about, these people have too much time on their hands. With more development coming to Fourth Ave., we’re sure you’ll see a slew of protests soon from this neighborhood where residents like to take on causes and everyone thinks they’re smarter than the next person.

It’s a far cry from the old days, when police officers and other civil servants worked hard to raise their families on these beautiful streets. Park Slope has become Greenwich Village of the 1960s, with online bulletin boards replacing soapboxes in Washington Square Park .

I don't think it's an insult to an entire community when there is a lot of truth to the article.

ringrunner wrote: [quote=DanielJ]I don't see what's wrong with taking up a cause, for those who do. Isn't apathy supposed to be the downfall of society? And there was nothing wrong with the Village in the 1960s either.

The Daily News is read by the Archie Bunkers and Rudy Giulianis of the world.

At least when you're going to insult a group of people it helps to get your facts straight.

Course you probably read the NYT which is in junk bond status.

Hmmmm, seems true to me.
And we keep our list serves and blogs free over here so we have less to fight about.

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