because there are older people who are coupled up with and Park Slope much more so than the rest of New York City tends to be white and upper middle class. That's recent because of gentrification in the neighborhood and couples ( including lesbian couples) with buying up houses. I hate to say this because it's definitely not an unfriendly neighborhood but I just prefer living on the outskirts instead of smack dab in the middle of it. Also as a bisexual person I fit in better with mixed queer crowds and clubs and Park Slope has a large lesbian community but not so much a community. Where I live (Ditmas Park) there is more of a diverse mixture of people in terms of cultural backgrounds. My old next door neighbors were a couple and my downstairs neighbors are a lesbian couple. Brooklyn in general is friendlier than Manhattan. All of these neighborhoods are friendly and also friendly. It's just a question of where you fit in personally.