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more about #parkslope more comments → SidAndFinancy: "Hey, baby, can I get your digits?" "Whoa! I was talking to your mom!" #parenting more » OMG! Ponies!: Open Caption: Look Ma! No hands! #parenting more » OMG! Ponies!: Nothing beats strolling down 7th Ave to the flea market, the smell of leaves in the cool autumn air, while the tiny fingers of Hunter and Tyler and Br... more » daveyjonesisdead: It's harder to blog about your food coop if you're missing a few digits. So, there's that. #parenting more » LatestBy: As a former nanny who was almost 9 1/2 fingered, I can tell you those can pinch sad, unemployed journalists' fingers too. #parenting more » BettyCrocker: Ladyfingers they taste like ladyfingers...* *Survivor Type, Stephen King, 1985 #parenting more » kappakappaspankme: That's what you get for being too poor to buy a Bugaboo. #parenting more » TheBusinessGuy: Fry 'em up, dip 'em in sauce, and Brooklyn kids can fight over them. #parenting more » Trai_Dep: They're really missing an opportunity by not emphasizing their strollers' unique dual usefulness at Bris ceremonies. #kidsthesedays more » GlasgowRose: Rihanna redux: "You can stand under my McLaren umbrella - ella - ella - eh - eh - waaah!" #kidsthesedays more » GlasgowRose: Love or hate HBO's Bored to Death, it offers a pretty solid takedown of Park Slope, with strollers underfoot in most BK scenes. #kidsthesedays more » Mediahohoho: Also, I understand the use of "allegedly" when referring to a crime, but this is a straight-forward fact. Either the strollers clipped the kids digits... more » gawkimo: There was a time not that long ago when only strollers you saw in Cobble Hill were ones left abandoned on street corners, filled with empty beer bottl... more » Mediahohoho: Wow. For a minute there I thought you were linking to me with the phrase "sexually marginalized Mr. Moms in the streets of Cobble Hill." But yeah, fin... more » BullfightsOnAcid: Now that episode of the 'The Wonderpets Save the Missing Finger' makes perfect sense. #kidsthesedays more » -
#recalls
Maclaren: Choppin' Baby Fingers Since 2004
Fancy strollermaker Maclaren just issued its stroller recall this week, but it's known its products could chop off your baby's fingers for at least five years now. Why does Maclaren want Park Slope's streets littered with tiny digits? [NYP] -
#panic
Fancy Stroller Recall Brings Park Slope to Grinding Halt
Why does the average Park Slope parent enjoy pushing around their vulnerable young children, Daffodil and Ainsley, in a stroller that could, at any moment, chop off their tiny defenseless fingers?
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#shutupbrooklyn
The New York Times' on The Ultimate Brooklyn Cliches: Banned from the Co-op
The New York Times ran a piece in this weekend's Metropolitan containing every awesome, incredibly true cliche about BoBo Brooklyn. It will stand as a definitive document of Our Era in Kings. It's about someone getting banned from the Co-Op. More » -
#shutupbrooklyn
Park Slope Mom Who Wants to Ban 'Predatory' Ice Cream Trucks Is a Fried Pudding Pusher
Is there anything more symbolic of the American summer than the ice cream man? No! But some people hate the ice cream man. Who? Dang food-Nazi parents, that's who! Especially one whose Brooklyn restaurant serves deep-fried candy bars to children!
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#readingrainbow
Behold, the Book Behind Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex & the Stroller Set Show
Amy Sohn sent us a copy of her new book Prospect Park West which Sarah Jessica Parker is making it into an HBO series even though she wouldn't be caught dead living there. So, what's it like? More » -
#stalkerdeluxe
Adrian Grenier: Working at a Brooklyn Supermarket
Preparing to leave Park Slope, my 'hood of two years, next week, I'm reminded this morning of how silly/wonderful a place it can be. Its members-only supermarket, the Park Slope Food Co-Op? Makes everyone work. Even celebrities, like Adrian Grenier!
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#mysteriessolved
The New York Times Solves Sarah Jessica Parker's Park Slope Mystery, And The Answer Is "Google"
Speculation regarding Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick moving into ginormous Park Slope digs was wrong! Via some crack NYT investigative reporting, Brooklyn teasing, and reportage bragging, the occupants who ended up in it are just as interesting: Google Bazillionaires. More » -
#relocating
Sarah Jessica and Matthew Fleeing to Brooklyn?
We knew there was a reason we're leaving the neighborhood. Sarah Jessica Parker and her mighty steed Matthew Broderick might be movin' on over to Park Slope. The New York Post thinks they've found the family's apartment.
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#brooklyn
If you read one profanity-laced diatribe about labradoodle owners today, let it be this one.
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#shutupbrooklyn
Killer Dog Rampage in Park Slope 'Tot Lot!'
The perpetually put-upon parents of Park Slope have yet another outrage to face! Already battling listserv fees and fighting sexist hats, the yups must now contend with dogs trying to eat their babies! More » -
#fromthemailbag
The Mommy Flip-Out Too Hot For 'Park Slope Parents'
"Park Slope Parents," the Brooklyn listserv, is in the midst of a civil war between yuppie parents and list moderators. One combatant finally just snapped, and she's shared her rant with us. More » -
#shutupbrooklyn
Park Slope Parents in Tribal Stroller War
The stroller-and-laptop-wielding factions of Park Slope have not yet broken out into open rebellion in the streets over the Park Slop Parents Messageboard Fee Outrage, although a splinter group may be increasing the palpable tension:
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#shutupbrooklyn
Park Slope Parents Fee Battle Threatens to Spiral Into All-Out Yuppie War
This bitter war over a fee(!) to post on the Park Slope Parents listserv is perfectly in character. Park Slope is where New York's most annoying parents sequester themselves in a twee, self-important doombubble. More »
