There was, in case anyone missed it, an amusing item on CityRoom over the weekend about valet stroller parking at the Park Slope Y. As it turns out, the valet parking isn’t a daily thing, but according to someone on Brooklynian, it’s something that happens a couple of times a week during certain classes. Be that as it may, here’s some react from a poster on Brooklynian:
Speaking only for myself, as a parent whose Park Slope kids stopped needing strollers about 25 years ago, I thought the availability of valet stroller parking, combined with the ubiquity of Maclaren strollers (some with thermostats and pedometers) evidenced gentrification run amuck. The nabe is beginning to resemble Great Neck or the UES more than the slightly tacky, hippy-esque village I originally moved into. I liked it better then, just as the folks I displaced liked it better the way it was when they first got here.
Perhaps the Tea Lounge might want to offer the service?
4 responses so far ↓
1 Janet // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:33 am
It would be interesting to know how old the Brooklynian’s kids were when they “stopped needing” strollers, vs. this generation, many of whom have been capable of walking for some time but are pushed to the Y in order to attend an organized exercise class.
2 Stroller Dad // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:53 am
My advice to this commenter is to take their nostalgic ‘your ruining my life’ b*@&$#)t and go f&^% themselves. Would you rather I bought a car to transport my child to the Y, and then you can whine about the neighborhood turning into a parking lot, and choke on all the pollutants I am killing the environment with?
3 Janet // Oct 7, 2008 at 4:57 pm
If you want to give your kids those kind of fake choices (“red or blue?”) so they’ll wear a sweater, fine, but it doesn’t work as well with grownups. I’d like to see your kids walking before they’re five, even if they do slow you down.
4 wisco // Oct 7, 2008 at 9:18 pm
i am parent that doesn’t live in park slope. do know that my kid didn’t walk well (quickly, in straight line, or at all) until she turned 3. i have the bad back to prove it too.
sorry, but strollers are necessary and most people have a plain old macclaren. it’s a good product therefore it’s successful. stop being such a holes.