In today’s New York Sun, Francis Morrone, addresses  the recent Internet-and press-backlash against Park Slope in a column titled, "In Defense of Park Slope."

For those who don’t know him, Morrone, one of the Park Slope 100, is a historian, journalist, author, lecturer, teacher, and blogger with
a special interest in the connections among architecture, art,
literature, urbanism, and social history.

He writes "Abroad in New
York," on New York buildings and history, that appears every Friday in
the New York Sun, and is the author of  five books, including
architectural guidebooks to New York City, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
He is a board member of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.

In the Sun, Morrone cites an article in the London Daily Telegraph, that accused Park Slopers of being the smuggest New Yorkers of all:  "In a city of the smug, Park Slopers are reviled as the smuggest."

Ouch.

And that’s just the half of it.

In his New York Sun column, Morrone takes the high road and doesn’t even rail gainst all the snark that’s been flung at Park Slope’s lately. Instead, he write passionately of the architectural treasures that abound in this neck of the woods.

"When all is said and done," Morrone writes. "It’s hard to think of a city neighborhood in the country more beautiful than Park Slope."

It’s just one man’s opinion. A very learned and erudite man when it comes to urban architecture I might add.

But one man’s opinion all the same.