Another person left off the Park Slope More Than 100, Douglas Rushkoff, is an unbelievably prolific writer, an impressive resume, and an apartment in Park Slope. He was mugged on Christmas Eve while he was taking out the garbage. He tells the story on his blog:

I got mugged at knifepoint while taking out the garbage Christmas Eve at 9pm.

I negotiated with him for my health insurance card
– not only because it has my Social Security number and was really hard
to get, but because I knew that such a request would humanize me in the
mind of my attacker, and make it harder for him to stab me. Such are
the benefits of studying human behavior. All I lost was my phone,
cards, and money.

Getting a knife pushed into your ribcage now
and again is just part of the price we pay to live in a city, and New
York is supposedly one of the safer of the bunch. But I have to admit, it
makes me question working two extra gigs (I won’t divulge which ones
they are) in order to pay the exorbitant rent in this part of Brooklyn – when the streets are less safe than they were in the supposedly bad parts of Manhattan where I used to live.

It
may just be the humiliation of not fighting back that’s getting me
down, but I fear that Brooklyn may be a crock. And with a two-year-old
daughter, I feel a strong urge to spend my effort elsewhere.

Here’s some info about fellow Park Sloper Douglas Rushkoff. Check out his blog, too. 

Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it.

His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He has just finished a book for HarperBusiness, applying renaissance principles to today’s complex economic landscape, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside