All these Block by Block episodes have one theme in common: Gentrification and you can't afford it.

Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you... Limousine Liberals.

I used to own a carpet cleaning business in the late 80's. A family just bought a brownstone and I was asked to clean some rooms. It was my first time inside a brownstone and I was blown away by the tall ceilings and incredible wood work. The family paid 600k for the brownstone (4 stories). I sold my business in 91 and started looking for an investment property in the area. I found a mixed use brownstone (residential apartments over a store) that needed lots of work. The area was very sketchy back then. Bodegas in almost every corner and drug deals done in the open. I have seen the neighborhood transform dramatically over the years. It's a great place to live and a very safe neighborhood for kids to grow up in.

Lol those aren't mom's pushing strollers, those are nannies

Must be great to have money 🙁

I live right by Park Slope and trust, it is not very 'diverse' as they say.

True, it is built for families... RICH families.

I visited Park Slope in the mid-90s for a friend's wedding and loved it. I love Prospect Park!!!

I love Prospect Park! (Bed-Stuy born and raised)

I grew up in park slope in the 60 & 70s. Best memories ever!!! we were all friends and family. We jumped rope, water hydrant would open and we would get wet, we hung out at ARTY’s candy store, play Skellys, stickball, play our boom box music. We would all dance salsa in the streets. Our rent was only $55 we had rent control. I visit my cousin on fifth Ave & President street and it is not the same anymore. It is too YUPPY now. Cafes the bank is a gym the funeral parlor is a restaurant . The bodegas are all gone. I remember the gang fights between the Italians and Puerto Rican’s and Blacks on fifth Avenue. My aunt Rosie started the Garden on President & Fifth Ave and I don’t see her name there. She also started the Coalition call “CHIPS” where she cook and gave people food and clothes. I am glad I still stay in touch with some of the friends I grew up in park slope that still live there. We know the Real Park Slope.

Based on the rent in that area you're just going to live to get up everyday and work to pay rent what good is there to live in a trendy neighborhood when your whole check is going to go to the rent.

My immigrant family settled in the Slope during the 50's when my mom was born. I came along in 1979, got to see some of "old" New York and Park Slope , the old block parties in the 80's, the lawlessness of pre 9/11 NY. I grew up outside of New York, only spending Xmas and Summers breaks in Brooklyn until I my twenties during the 2000's, when I lived there for years at 14th St between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West. The smell when the train door opens at 15th St. Prospect Park West station on the F line takes me back to being seven years old immediately. I remember buying a Christmas tree on 5th avenue in the freezing cold. Good old New York, the old guard is dwindling. Thank you for the upload!

I was a pastry chef and cook during my training in culinary school in the early 2000 s. at Ozzie's Cafe then -on 5th and Garfield . Park slope at that time was nothing really exciting but any way ..@1:21 what does "slightly crunchy " mean? That's a new one for me.

I have the best childhood memories ever this is my old neighborhood I love so much

Park Slope the suburbs of Brooklyn.

Why are there only ten videos in this series? More, please!

“It’s dynamic, it’s diverse...” Cues in the b-roll of all white school children. This is a joke.

It’s ok if you’re rich

Wow they said 4av isn’t pleasant and so happens a lot of minority’s live in that area smh

how I miss the old days good memories born and raised in the slope nothing like

90's all day 😎 what a dream to look out the window thinking of you looking out the window. All seems like a real life nightmare to search for you other places but could never find you, guess now you know why I would stare so hard. Hope you & the family are well ❤ bless your children & your childrens children.

My family is from park slope both sides... from Caroll st.. Bergen st.. Dean st.. to Amity st..I miss the area of my youth..

I had to laugh, it's a very family friendly neighborhood. I guess if you family are millionaires!

I love park slope!

My husband's great grandparents owned 457 14th street in Park Slope. I think they were the original owners. We still have the original paperwork for the house. Tne papers gives an account of each owner from the very first Dutch settler. Is there a site that would be interested in these papers? There are I think at least 20 of them. My in-laws sold the property in the late 70's. Anyhow, my husband remembers some info of the area and of course we have photos.

I love in park slope and loveeee it, but I'm about to move to Florida... :(

When she said "it's diverse" they showed a clip of all white kids lol

I grew up in the Park Slope of the 1970s. It really did have economic and racial diversity back then. It’s still beautiful but I wouldn’t want to live there now.

Spent many a summer day.fishing at the lake.Thats when the summers ,it seemed to last forever.Riding your bike all the way to Coney Island.Ocean parkway it was a rite of passage for a 10 yr old.So many memories. In as much I don't like the cold ashes in the is not a bad idea.What the hey,it's where I started from. I can hear my mother now ,yelling it's time to eat get up here.Never thought I would that.Stay in touch.

Please please PLEASE stop referring to individual subway lines as one.It's not the BQ or the 2 3. It's the B and Q train or the 2 and 3 train. Good indicator you're NOT from NYC.

I want to live here!

NT are u also going to make an episode of the bronx...does`nt have to be the south...

Park slope is park stroller. I can't wait to swerve with lil baby around BK.

Since Prospect Park is half the size of Central Park, Prospect could be the 2nd biggest park in New York (the entire state).

Im just saying dont move to nyc if you feel you need to park your car, a majority of new Yorkers dont even bother to have cars

seems like a neighborhood full of karens

Park slope or greeenwhich village is where i wanna live

Prospect Park reminds me of a time out City with in the City, at times I had to remind myself; Am I in Central or Prospect Park, Yeah Brooklyn Baby Bklyn all the way

You need a grocery cart to get food if you don't have a car, it's dangerous like any city but it looks nice on some streets.

I know who the kid on the thumbnail is! His name is jack and he want to ps.321 with me and we were in the same class in one grade!!

Diverse? Laid back? Uh.. no. It’s an Upper Middle class/wealthy neighborhood with self absorbed privileged people. Maybe 25 years ago it was the neighborhood described in the video.

Defend Brooklyn

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i hate the fact that i would, quite happily, live here.

Gentrification 😍😍😍

My first week in park slope my car got stolen and the bank was robbed. It's terrible there.

Park slope is not diverse at all.

I want to live in Park Slope

Built for families....who can afford 850 sq foot floor thru condos in brownstones for over $1,000,000. But don't ever feel too safe...Brooklyn will ALWAYS be Brooklyn son, and yuppies do get popped sometimes!

The rent there is 3000-5000 dollars lol

I recognize thls guy. Geoge costanza went to his house to apologize for getting him fired a.nd kramer left the door open and his cat ran away laquita mew

Gee whiz we almost lived in prospect park back in the 1950s and 1960s, I would take my children to the park a few times a week...I grew up in park slope, it was so great back then, every street had dozens of kids to play with, growing up every either knew your father, brother, uncle, went to school with your sister, knew your grandma, it is very different now, trendy, no one knew your family, no more moms hanging out the window and shouting your kids name to come in for supper...street lamps came on and all the kids disappear into the house to sit on the sofa together and watch this small tv screen...the whole family sat together at the kitchen tablei to eat and talk about the day...the moms would get together during the day for a cup of tea at your kitchen table, friends mother and father were called mr or mrs, never ever call them by their first name, on Sunday we wore our Sunday clothes and shoes to church, come home and change to regular old clothes go out and play. It would rain or snow and we would run in the house, dad would always say, what are you a cream puff, you ain’t gonna melt.....yes the old park slope was great.

bit too pricey & yuppie for my taste.....

+Madore hi

“family friendly neighborhood” golly gee i wonder why it’s family friendly

I was lucky enough to live there renting a room near 7th Ave on Garfield Place for a while in the 1990s. Have to admit it was a seeming idyllic place for someone fresh out of college seeking a new life, except for the Karens and the fact the place was not very ethnically diverse. There were people of color that lived there, but they were rather affluent, and far and few between. My landlord who was a 50 year old black psychologist also lived in the gorgeous brownstone, but used to tell me about the guy across the street who called her racial epithets every now and then. He was there before the yuppies moved in apparently, and was likely jealous of her. She moved to Florida selling her home for nearly 2 million dollars sometime after 2001. Looks like not much has changed though. Sigh...

PS some folks Work to Live & others Live to Work. Time and Changes is not always seen as Progress for All, Greed vs Needs

Their comments about 4th ave tell me all i need to know about these type of people. The rich killed nyc

How is it diverse when you see all white people talking????? Really???? Most people can't afford living in that neighborhood!!!

Very Homogenous neighborhood indeed.....

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I was born in the Slope, and lived there for 30 years, but not since 1981. I go back to from time to time when visiting friends and relatives. It has changed, and not for the better. The hipsters and socialists have ruined it.

Their whole lives are defined by what they consume, where and what brand. Talk about shallow people!

Park Sleep 😴

Even tho they only came out five years ago, the tone and attitude of these videos has aged so horribly

Park slope is not diverse at all. It is 70% white and being LGBTQ is not really diverse

left leaning doesnt mean progressive always

"It's a very left-leaning progressive neighborhood. . ." So much so that any knowledge of real economics has been banned from Park Slope!

Seems pretentious

Where are the LEAST "progressive"/left wing areas in New York?

tear all those brownstones down

All these Block by Block episodes have one theme in common: Gentrification and you can't afford it.

I want to live here!