NY Post Makes Laughable Claim That The Financial District is the "new park slope"
According to the New York Post, the Financial District is the new Park Slope.
Say what?
Apparently "FiDi"—no, I didn’t make that up, this ridonkulous term was coined to “make the neighborhood more attractive to residents”—has the highest birth rate in Manhattan, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. What does that mean, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. It means that the fast-walking suits on Wall Street are now plagued with an obstacle course of babies in giant strollers, which obviously means it’s exactly like Park Slope now. Right? Nah.
Sure, people are poppin’ out babies left and right over there, but there are several differences between the Slope and "FiDi."
For one, FiDi has WAY more touristy shit than the Slope (e.g. South Street Seaport and its “Imagination Playground”).
Two, in this article FiDi is referred to as “Safe and Convenient,” which is NOT something that you’d call PS, due to our great rep of having tons of thieves, rapists, murderers and all of the above causing a ruckus in our hood.
But the most obvious-to-the-naked-eye difference is in the rest of the area’s demographic; in the financial district, suits and martinis outnumber flannel and PBR by a lot. When FiDi (still shuddering at the nickname) starts being overrun by complaining hipsters rather than complaining businessmen/women in addition to babies, then maybe you can start making an actual comparison.
For now, let’s just say that people were lured into the area with a shitty nickname and decided to start reproducing at a rapid rate, and that it’s a good thing nobody’s allowed to touch the Wall Street bull right now, because the last thing we need to be hearing about is dozens of toddlers’ little grubby hands all over his balls.
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