Park Slope Stroller Valet: Worst of '08?

In an article entitled "The Good and the Bad of 2008," The NYT City Room Blog offers up this little Park Slope gem: Outlandish valet parking proposal, already in effect: The stroller valet at the Prospect Park Y.M.C.A. in Park Slope.

Though they don't call it out specifically, we assume this one goes squarely in their "bad" column.

Ok, fair enough.

The idea is, admittedly, vomit inducing in a "yougottabefuckingkidingme," yuppie bullshit sort of a way.

BUT.

If you're really looking at the idea from an ingenuity POV, it's also kind of brilliant (and this is coming from the bitch who wrote the Tea Lounge Survival Guide for the Babyless).

I mean: someONE at the YMCA recognized and identified a problem (big SUV strollers all over the fucking place, blocking people's paths, annoying BALLERS and gettin' in the way) and then sort of reverse engineered a solution: convincing their sweet janitor to go stand out on the street and "watch" the strollers for all the pre-natal yoga MILFS (he doesn't even take tips! WTF??).

Anyway.

I for one applaud the effort. And sincerely hope that it spurs on the development of other creative solutions in the nabe (like a doggy valet at La Bagel Delight, for instance?).

So, yeah...piss off New York Times.