Brooklyn Schools Look Like Prisons

Everyone goes on about how great it is with kids, to live in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Its a district that is awash with strollers and of-the-moment wine bars, and people making an effort to say why its better than living in a shoe box in Manhattan. Which if it has to be said, raises suspicion, since almost anything is better than living in a shoe box.

But the amazing thing is that the primary thing people think about with urban kids is schools. People fight to get their kids into the schools in Park Slope, which is gobstoppingly amazing, considering what they look like.

This is the local elementary school – which looks like a Northern Irish. prison, before the ceasefire, with a sarcastic multi colored sign by Banksy.