Anyone living in Gowanus or in Park Slope has no doubt been seeing or hearing the cool late night fireworks displays that people have been setting off for at least the last week or so. Not everyone is so enamored of them. Per another Park Slope Parents email that has come our way from a faithful and reliable Park Slope Correspondent:
…there are fireworks going off on Union between 4th and 3rd Avenue every night for almost the past week. They set them off directly across from the gas station and they are large professional grade fireworks. Very pretty but very loud. People in our building have called the police nightly who respond after about 2 hours, too late to catch the guys. I don’t think these are the same fireworks that you would hear, but it’s probably the same response you would get from the police.
Yes, it’s almost July 4, one of our favorite days of the year.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Gari N. Corp // Jul 2, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Scared the piss out of the cat, but the baby? Not so much. The father-in-law came to visit recently and was very excited to hear what he thought was proof of CRIME IN BROOKLYN. Almost disappointed to hear it was probably impatient teenagers.
2 Mark // Jul 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm
How is this even a news story? Bored kids throughout the 5 boros are setting of fireworks nightly. I realize that Slopers love to complain about things, but do they really deserve a blog post when it’s such an unremarkably common problem?
I expect Gowanus Lounge to next publish a Sloper email complaining about loud garbage trucks.
3 SlopeHater // Jul 2, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Exactly. Fireworks everywhere. Slopers whining about it and calling the cops *every night* is funny. Slopers complaining about every fucking thing on earth is funny. Even loud garbage trucks. That’s the point. Everywhere else, it’s this is nyc, deal with it. In the Slope, it’s oooh, this is Parkfuckingslope, you can’t do that! Whine. Whine. Whine. Funny stuff.
4 Entertained // Jul 2, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Yay, fireworks! Can we have some fireworks going off in a baby stroller to really freak out the slopers?
5 judi // Jul 2, 2008 at 3:21 pm
actually the fireworks Were annoying after midnight on many of those evenings. I loveX30 fireworks (and took pictures of them) when it was around 8pm but when it’s waking me up from a deep sleep, EFF THAT. some of us aren’t stroller-pushers, we just want to fucking sleep.
**also I did notice three police cars at 3rd and president just sitting and watching the fireworks. take that as you will.
6 Jude // Jul 2, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I have to agree with Park Slope peep here (omg). The drunks across the street from us have been firing off professional grade fireworks at our building off and on all week. If our windows had been open, embers would have come into the apt. No, I don’t live in Park Slope, I live on the southside in Williamsburg where it is more accepted I’m sure. In any case, it’s effin scary, not to mention dangerous if you are on the receiving end. Can’t really compare that to a loud garbage truck.
7 J$ // Jul 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm
perhaps directly across the street from a gas station is not the best spot to launch amateur fireworks.
it’s all fun and games until someone loses a finger or starts a fire.
8 anon // Jul 2, 2008 at 6:07 pm
This has been happening especially in that neighborhood for decades, I have video of fireworks in the 80s in that exact spot, with cop cars driving by even. They will not do anything, and its almost a tradition, if you go out there and ask them to stop, they will tell you they were here long before you and you can just get used to it. Its not park slope anyway.
9 Anon // Jul 2, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I love that in order not to be an entitled Sloper I have to endorse people setting off fireworks near a GAS STATION.
Come on.
10 averagejoe // Jul 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I, atypical Park Sloper, childless and unemployed, heard the fireworks going off around 10 PM on busy 5th Avenue. No one turned, no one blinked, no one cared. Just because a handful of Park Slopers know how to make their whining heard does not mean they represent all of us. Park Slope earns some of its rep but repeated NY Times articles and the like are not helping. In a word, the shit is getting exaggerated. The worst child behavior I ever saw in a restaurant: Carroll Gardens. Just had drinks at Lodge in Williamsburg and saw more kids in the place than I’ve ever seen in a bar at Park Slope. So let’s ease up on the Slope bashing. It may be easy to do but that don’t make it accurate.