All stories about "Stroller Moms"

So, a Park Slope Stroller Mom is pushing the little one down Seventh Avenue on her way to the Tea Lounge or, perhaps, Union Hall, when the unthinkable happens: the Maclaren has tire trouble. What to do? Apparently, go to a bike shop. Today's Post reports that Brooklyn nabes like Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights are on the cutting edge of a new trend: fixing stroller flats. Says the owner of a Slope shop: "They come in usually with one or two babies crying and sometimes demand to cut the line...We try to fix the flat right out on the sidewalk so they don't have to come into the store." One mom reports two blowouts and two flats on the mean street of the Baby Boom Brooklyn, including a nasty incident at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The bike shop owners say that "they never imagined that they would be fixing several strollers a day and even more on the weekends." Could all the flat fix shops on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope be a condo amenity marketing point, as in "steps to the renowned 24-hour Flat Fix."
· Bike Shops Now Stroller Pit Stops [NYP]

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Earlier this week, there was some news about a proposed new TV series from the producers of Sex and the City that would be based...in Park Slope. (Insert Stroller Mafia joke here.) It's described as "an hour-long dramady" that "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." React from Park Slopers has started, in the form of emails floating around the neighborhood touchstone known as the Park Slope Parents group. For instance, there's this:

I just can't wait to see the parents out at 1am drinking cocktails at Blue Ribbon on 5th Avenue while nobody in particular babysits the kids. And all-night raves at the Tea Lounge full of designer clothes and svelte bodies. Isn't that the Slope we all know and love?

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[Image courtesy of Pardon Me for Asking]

Here's a little slice of life from Smith Street and Court Street, starting with an email floating around in the Boerum Hill Group that skateboarding teens in front of a shop on Smith Street called Homage are a menace. This, in turn, led someone else to say the real neighborhood annoyance is strollers. (Just in case anyone thought it was strictly a Park Slope issue.) Independent of this, blogger Pardon Me for Asking noted the incredible stroller gridlock at Court Street's Tea Lounge. And, another resident rewrote the original skateboarding rant substituting "moms" and "strollers" for "teens" and "skateboards."

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Oh, Park Slope, how you sometimes delight. One of today's hot topics over at the Park Slope Parents group is 'Is there a Park Slope in Boston?' There have been many answers hitting inboxes via their emails so far, with the leading candidates for Bostonian Park Slopedom including Brookline and Cambridge (which are independent towns). The Number One Boston Park Slope that's actually in the city seems to be Jamaica Plain. A sample opinion: "It certainly has that 'crunchy granola' park-slopey, kid- friendly attitude and it's within the Boston city limits."

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Ah, the joys of an online discussion that provokes rants about Park Slope. There's a very hot back-and-forth going on right now prompted by a journalist's question on the Park Slope Forum about the whys of Park Slope hating. It started with this question, ostensibly asked for a future story for New York Magazine:

Why has Park Slope become shorthand for all that is evil and twee? Why is the hate so virulent -- WHERE (beyond anonymous blog posts) is it coming from? Envy? Rage against the suburbanization of all of NYC, with PS as ground zero? Simple cooler-than-thou-ness? Something else?

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