Park Slopers Shout Coronavirus Warnings To Passersby: Videos

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A group of Park Slopers' coronavirus-inspired balcony serenade to pedestrians below drew angry responses from the street and a viral reaction online.

Park Slope balcony shouters featured in two videos posted Sunday by Reuters reporter Nick Brown, who was covering a larger story about life amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

He filmed a group of people hanging out of windows and balconies on a building at Seventh Avenue and Garfield Place who got in a shouting match with pedestrians, according to his tweet and the Reuters video.

"Flatten the curve, go home," one man chanted from a balcony.

"Flattening the curve" is the goal to slow the exponential spread of coronavirus by social distancing and other measures before it overwhelms the country's health care system.

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Another man on a Park Slope balcony expressed those concerns to bystanders in more "professorial tones," Brown wrote along with another Reuters video.

Those warnings to people minding their own business while walking down the street amid the coronavirus outbreak did not sit too well with many people online.

Some pointed out that going outside isn't frowned upon, so long as people avoid crowds, social gatherings and keep their distance from others.

"Park Slope is pleasant except for the massive pile of entitled folks who are constantly telling people how to behave even in better times," wrote @JackSzwergold on Twitter. "The streets are not crowded. There is no need for them to be shouting at people from their windows."

Other commenters like @bigmeatyclauds decried rich Park Slope "a--hats" who act "holier than thou over people who actually need to do shit like work and buy groceries."

An old listing for an apartment in the building stated its rent was $3,950 a month in 2018, according to StreetEasy.

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