The writer who started a “why do people hate Park Slope” discussion when she said she was writing something for New York Magazine has, instead, published her story on Park Slope Hating in the Sunday Times. It covers what will be very well worn territory to those who follow such discussions or participate in them, but will be instructive to the more casual observer of dislike of the Slope. Here is a short excerpt:

To its detractors, Park Slope is both haunt and hatchery of New York’s smuggest limousine-liberal yuppies. It is, if I may further summarize the bad publicity, overrated and hypocritical. Its glorious brownstone blocks and jaunty cafes are awash in carpetbagger entitlement, ruled by snarling “Stroller Nazis.” The neighborhood is a ground zero of all that is twee and lame. It is, God forbid, the suburbs…How did Slope Rage become a meme unto itself, even among people who won’t take the F train below East Broadway?

We must take some hatred of Park Slope with a generous dash of salt (organic, artisanal, hand-harvested). Much anti-Slope invective is stirred up in comments on blogs, which are not known for universally trenchant insight (“Puke Slope!”) or for their warm embrace of, well, anything.

More discussion to come, no doubt.