12th Street and 8th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn

[chickinshock]

I wanna live there!!

but not among yuppies lol

[javtor01]

I miss 1203 8 ave 12st

[TheAnn2shoes]

Show me a place in the world that hasn't changed - you just have to accept it. My small village in England has changed, live with it. I loved Park Slope - never saw it before so it's not relevant.

[bassist718]

I was born and raised in park slope. I was born in methodist hospital on 7th ave and attended ps39 on 6th. lived on 350 7th street between 5th and 6th. The rent in those days was like $200 a month. Many wonderful moments lived here. Many sad ones as well. I was 12 when my dad passed and we lost our apt there. I visit as often as I can, just to relive some moments and try to make some sense of others. Santos, Angel, Jeffrey, sammy, frankie, daniel, tim, julio, kimani, efrum, albert,cathy

[msgymmom]

I also grew up on this block, 482 12th, so many wonderful memories. With all the cars now, not so easy to have a stickball game. Thanks for the video!

[JohnLennonVideos86]

I very much want to live here

[ann2shoes]

I miss Park Slope and I never even lived there - my daughter did!

[atlrts11]

I grew up on this block, 509 12st

I have great memories of stick ball, Bill's Bike shop and more... It brings me back 35 years.

[keonenyc]

i miss the park slope of the 80s

[LCBpink]

Wow I never knew people hated Park Slope so much. Should it really matter what type of people live there? No, especially if they aren't doing anything illegal. I hope to live there one day I've been saying that for as long as I can remember. I just really love brownstones. Cool vid.

[smackitupNflipit]

It matters when the newcomers are arrogant and disrespectful toward the community that existed here long before they decided to follow the herd of other suburban hipster-yuppies here because it suddenly became trendy.

And it only makes matters worse when the result of the newcomers flocking in is the disappearance of all the reasonably-priced businesses which catered to normal people, as they're replaced by useless, pretentious, overpriced 'gourmet' organic groceries and baby boutique stores.

[LCBpink]

I really did not know that a majority of them were disrespectful. It sucks that the neighborhood is moving in one direction with a lot of young people. maybe it is just me but I like a mix of ages and races.

They do have a lot of those stores lol. But I dont think that the new comers should be hated unless they are being really rude.

[loopler]

@LCBpink they are very rude. what with their toddlers screaming and getting in everyone's way, and being complete bitches to people who are willing to come within a couple of feet of their kids. it's new york. you can't have that big of a personal zone. if you do, move the fuck out

[LCBpink]

@loopler Wow I had no clue. Anytime I pass there I'm on the bus. So I never really encountered someone from that neighborhood. I do see a lot of kids and nannies there. I don't like rude people so I don't know how I'll deal with the rude people in that neighborhood. That sure sucks. Especially that Atlantic Yards project. Yeah a lot of jobs will be created but, a lot of people are forced out of their homes. I know I completely changed topics but, that's just how I feel. :)

[frankwhite432]

ty for this. miss my hometown so much

[X3ishere]

WERE FOXBOOGIE AT

[718HOUSE]

home of the boricuas in BK

[Mercury91]

ah the memories thanks!!

[pollobionico]

just what i was looking for...thnx

[Luckilius]

Oh are you gonna become another hipster yuppie transplant here or what? I think we've got enough already.

[pollobionico]

Relax Tonto, just watching a video on the internet here, but you can take back some of your retirees that turned my Florida live oak canopy into a condo dessert and are too gornisht helfn with frozen custard to tip their wait staff.

[0ldbeggining]

haha im from 10th between 3rd n 4th :D i pass by ur place all the time

[ParkSlopeYuppyToilet]

Lifeless.

[Sharpster7]

My friend lives in one of those brownstones. it's such a beautiful place to live. All you haters be jealous yo

[Luckilius]

Yeah, well (a) my grandmother used to live in "one of those brownstones" before they became full of hipster yuppie idiots paying $4k/mo of their parents' money to live there; (b) I already live in Park Slope; and (c) own property here that's worth more than your life.

Wanna try again, "yo"?

[DrZhottesT88]

"MeN with Purses" OMgsh its sOoo True..lol

[Jinxed1982]

LoL, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks Park Slope is full of men with purses and yuppies... these people are so retarded it's not even funny.

[amazingdany]

I've read that Park Slope is a very wealthy neighborhood. It is true?

[nognilk]

not really, but the homes are valued above $800,000 - $1 million+ young professionals and starter families mostly live there, like the Huxtables or Patty Duke, and actors that can't afford Greenwich Conneticut.

[Luckilius]

Don't listen to that clown, Park Slope is RIDICULOUSLY wealthy. It is easily the third or fourth-highest income neighborhood in the city, behind the UES, UWS, and maybe Brooklyn Heights.

Park Slope yuppies have SERIOUS money, don't let the fact that they look like unwashed hippies fool you. That's part of their schtick. Most of them are rolling around in big time inheritances and trust funds. Many of them don't even need jobs.

[skizzo192]

park slope is rich the way that manhattan is rish.....the property value is expensive the rents are expensive....everything sold there is over priced .....but not all the residents are rich......but i would say its one of the more wealthy aeras of brooklyn

a REAL rich neiborhood is like lower BayRidge and parts of Dyker heights

[Sharpster7]

I moved from Bay Ridge to Dyker Heights, to the slope 4 years ago and I am moving to Manhattan next year... wow I guess I am rich ... who knew?

[smackitupNflipit]

Doesn't mean you're "rich," it could also mean that you are willing to throw away 50% or more of your income on rent.

[skizzo192]

this neighboorhood was once a glorius place filled with italians and irish and lots of character..........now the yuppie douchebaggs have moved in and ripped the heart out of the nieghboorhood and made it like manheattan ......filled with gays yuppies and outof towners......makes me sick

[superbcomplex]

That's your comment after seeing this video?

People are just living, man. Like everyone else in the world.

[skizzo192]

well fuck you and fuck them let them live in there own town not mine

[smackitupNflipit]

My grandmother used to "just live" a few houses up from you on 12st, decades ago. 12st used to be full of regular working people "just living."

Now, it's full of nothing but two-dimensional yuppie turds prancing around like they're reenacting some fucking TV show, trying to impress other yuppie turds identical to themselves. I hope a huge crime wave comes and drives you all out again.

[superbcomplex]

I'm so glad my video has sparked such an intelligent conversation. Way to go folks.

Let's get it straight. You are no better than anyone else. PERIOD.

[smackitupNflipit]

After the absurdity I have seen unfold in Park Slope in the last ten years or so I'm afraid I must beg to differ with that statement. I can think of countless people who are "better" than Park Slope's hordes of yuppie lemmings in just about every way imaginable.

[skizzo192]

lets get it straight im better then you

[papiiuenvy186]

your right i remember the old park slope when that place was crazy. a lot of gangs

[Molly9094]

oh I remember the gangs too, especially the Baldies who were supposed to cut off our hair if the caught you, lol!

[angelcakes12]

WAAAHHHH I MISS IT!!!

I used to live around there, but now I live in London. I miss it a lot !

[tykemeawaywyou]

wow can you sell me your place when you get tired of it?! (prob never!)

[dmc081]

ah gotta love nyc in the summer lots n lots of girls out

[superbcomplex]

No meters, no permits, but street cleaning on Thursdays and Fridays from 11am-2pm so you have to move your car during those hours - since my wife works from home she can easily move the car. It can be tough to find parking sometimes.

[GreenCyn]

Hows the neighborhood? It seems peaceful and quiet.

[superbcomplex]

It's really nice and peaceful... we love it!

[tim5004]

i hate it to many yuppie losers hanging out on my fucking block pissing me off and shit

[skizzo192]

yea man those yuppie shit bags have ruined this place .........the italians and irish even the ricans are all gone......the whole charcter has been ripped out and replaced by men with purses

[Luckilius]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that bro. Thanks to these yuppie schmucks, my property is now worth 10x what it was in the eighties, but I would gladly give it all away to have Park Slope full of real people again instead of these fakes.

Out of all places, why did these assholes choose Brooklyn to ruin??

[skizzo192]

i'll tell you why they moved to park slope

1. close vicinity to manhattan

2. they saw all the old homes there in good condition and said..."oh wow how cosmopolitan....i think i wanna live here and be a nyker"

3. those homes were fairly cheap at one time and were in good condition due to the fact that irish/italians always owned them.

4. they are colonizers..they move from place to place colonize use up all the resouces and then in 20 years will be gone...they are comparable to a parasite

[Luckilius]

"4. they are colonizers..they move from place to place colonize use up all the resouces and then in 20 years will be gone...they are comparable to a parasite"

Dead on. Park Slope yuppies are two-dimensional parasites. No culture of their own.

Hopefully I will live long enough to see them follow each other out of Park Slope the same way they followed each other in.

[Sharpster7]

What's with all the hating and calling a whole two zip codes worth of blue collar people, authors and artists fakes? There's so much negativity in the world, it makes me wish I knew where you lived so I could avoid your hood.

[Luckilius]

What the fuck are you talking about, there isn't even a handful of "blue collar people" left in this neighborhood. Hell, there's barely even any white collar people here; it's full of nothing but suburban-transplant idiots on trust funds and inheritances.

And yeah I am calling a bunch of so-called "authors" and "artists" who pay $4k/mo for an apartment fakes.

I live in Park Slope, so feel free to "avoid me" and leave.

[skizzo192]

here ill let you know were we live

bensonhurst

dyker heights and staten island

[inthenameof77]

its primus "tippi toes"

[DafinaRadoncic1]

i used to live on this block on 505

[bpmccarthy]

I live on this block.... And I have never heard that music. Curse you co-op board!