Will I be Voted Out of Park Slope?
Would you believe I got only one nasty e-mail from a Park Sloper in response to my post comparing my current neighborhood with my old West Village digs? Apparently I'm a snob, lack humility, and am "utterly pretentious and inexperienced." The unnamed letter writer touts some subway lines more than a 20 minute walk from me (4,5,N,R,F), and points out (correctly) that the monthly shift at the co-op is only a 3-hour shift. Also:

local celebrities
some of the musicians you haven't bumped into:
M'Shell Ndegeocello, Amel Larrieux of Groove Theory, Cecil Taylor, and the late Betty Carter
or some of the actors you haven't met out here:
Paul Calderon, Christopher Meloni, Lance Reddick, Chris Rock, Lawrence Fishburne, & Rosie Perez
*Two of these actors are members of the Food Co-op

And apparently there are no cockroaches in the letter-writer's neighborhood on 6th Avenue. Can that be true? Is there really a bug-free dwelling in all of New York?
- posted by Amy @ 10/08/2003 09:27:00 AM