Colin Quinn—who you most likely best know from MTV's Remote Control—recently discussed his upbringing in... Park Slope. The old Park Slope. His home on 1st Street would probably look different if he revisited it now; he says back in the day the neighborhood was filled with places like Greasy Jack's (which has a whole Facebook thread in tribute to it), Cheap Andy's (two burgers for a quarter), Al's Toy Land and Danny's Candy Store.
"Today? It's Whole Food lesbian baby carriage stores! It looks like a Swiss village! There's a Domino's Pizza on Coney Island Avenue! I'd rather live on soulless 56th Street" in Manhattan. (Which, incidentally, he does.)
Sounds like Park Slope is really messing with this guy's head! As the publisher of this site once said, "I don't understand why child abuse survivors and bulimia survivors and cancer survivors get Lifetime movies, but Park Slope in the 80s survivors don't get shit—except The Squid and the Whale." Perhaps those two can star in an "old" Park Slope buddy dramedy together. [via FIPS]
