How To Be A Local Character [What Park Slope Needs More Of]
Erica | Monday, January 5, 2009 at 12:44AM 
In my opinion, one of Park Slope's *main* downfalls, is the severe lack of totally fucking crazy people here.
I mean, yeah, we've got loads'o undercover, pill poppin, neurotic, "I spend half my salary on therapy" "crazy" people like me here, but I mean REAL crazy. We need more characters like Prince Mongo above.
Prince Mongo lives in a mansion in Memphis, TN. He takes in homeless people and believes he's from the planet Zambodia. Also he has a collection of 50 toilets he keeps in his front yard and has run for political office.
Anyone in Park Slope like this that we're missing??
And in the meantime, don't you think its time you really help out your community? Please read this article in Mental Floss...there are some great tips on how to be a bigger/badder/more eccentric local character in there.
(via Buzzfeed)
PSlope WTF, crazy 
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Reader Comments (5)
We have no shortage of crazies. They're just boring because they're either drunk or on the nod.
There's Steve on 4th Ave who everyone thinks is "cool" because he "used to study yoga" but is actually just another poor, disabled person who's chosen to live on the street and drink 22 oz. cans of caffeine/beer hybrids.
There's the black woman who begs for change at the Atlantic/Pacific station entrance and is often found doubled over in the middle of the sidewalk or sleeping in someone's doorway. There's another woman who sits on a milk crate all day outside of a tiny grocery on 5th Ave and never seems to move or speak. That's crazy-ish, at least.
How about the landlords? I would guess, based on my limited experience, that at least 30% of Brooklyn landlords are crazy, some in very fucked-up ways, and perhaps up to 6 out of 10. How else do you explain the continuing rise of commercial rents? How many local, "hip" businesses will relocate to grittier neighborhoods before these assholes realize that Starbuck's ain't moving into that 900 square foot shithole that used to be a cool boutique?
There's a really crazy woman who works the used handbags section of the Sunday Flea on 7th and 2nd. She abuses anyone who tries to bargain with her, often wears about 3 wigs at once and sometimes brings her geriatric mother and sits her in her car all day. Yep, there's another to interview.
There's also the cracked out Jamaican lady who pees in the middle of the side walk on Bergen and flashes her snatch at patrons of Black Sheep and Melt. I think that people who live above Union and past 6th Ave are sheltered from all the colorful crazies who still live in Park Slope
there's always the nutty family from the landmark pub but i guess they aren't much of a presence anymore.
@Danny - good one. Forgot about her. And there's the guy who cleans the street by hand at 4th Ave and Pacific. But he's not been around for a while.