StreetLevel: New Shoe Store Opening on Smith
A sign has gone up announcing that a storefront on Smith between Bergen and Dean will be the future home of DNA Shoes. The store might be familiar to Park Slope denizens: There’s a branch of it on 5th Avenue near the corner of President Street that opened about a year ago. GMAP
A sign has gone up announcing that a storefront on Smith between Bergen and Dean will be the future home of DNA Shoes. The store might be familiar to Park Slope denizens: There’s a branch of it on 5th Avenue near the corner of President Street that opened about a year ago. GMAP
and i dont see ANY difference between them shopping for sweatsocks on sale and someone standing in a one hour line for a tiny cup of 12 dollar yogurt. (yoghurt).
*rob*
at least the poor have their own persnoalities. anyway, ugh. you could be right, tho im pretty sure there are affluent people who there too. duh. how could they afford to send muffy from madison, WI to her pre-K private school!? dont be a dick. 😉 you KNOW what i was saying and lucille was saying as well.
*rob*
“walmart is the EPITOME of big bad chain!!! but look at the damn diversity of clientele!”
Diverse shades of poor, mostly…
yep. just look at a site like the people of walmart. walmart is the EPITOME of big bad chain!!! but look at the damn diversity of clientele! LOL
*rob*
Rob speaks a terrible truth. Recently, I spent an afternoon in Jackson Heights. When I came back to Cobble Hill and walked out of the subway, I was shocked. Not just at the whiteness, but at the total lack of diversity among my fellow honkies. Don’t know why it struck me that day and not others, it just seemed incredible. Basically, a neighborhood that reads the same books, watches the same TV shows, sees the same movies, listens to the same music, has the same clothing… Yikes.
on one hand cobble, it’s not the “stores” that appear more similar and similar to you, it’s the total lack of TRUE diversity of PEOPLE that is plauging the “nice” areas of brooklyn these days. so you are going to see the same yuppies on 5th that you see on court that you see on all the main corridors in nice neighborhoods.
on the other hand, i do agree with 11217. it is very nice NOT to have to spend my lunch hour at work shopping in manhattan and then bringing it home on the train.
and on the other hand, i totally enjoyed your spazz-out over a shoe store lol. very butterfly of you!
*rob*
Re: Shoes: here’s a great place on Smith. Not a shoe store per se, so a limited selection.. but what they have is very nice.
http://www.epauletshop.com/servlet/StoreFront
I’ve lived on or around Smith for years, while at the same time have had friends on or around 5th Ave. So I spend a considerable amount of time in both spots. Maybe this is why I’m sensitive to it. When I get out of the neighborhood I end up going to a place just like my neighborhood. I should get out of the neighborhoods more… Maybe (gasp) the problem is me!
Sorry, one more final post.
The other thing to take into consideration and this seems to be happening all over Brooklyn is that people now seem to want to shop in their own neighborhoods more instead of buying most things in Manhattan before or after work. It seems like this is a major shift as more and more people are looking to spend their dollars as close to home as possible.
As people who live in Brooklyn shop less in Manhattan, it would only make sense that more shops catering to things they once bought there (shoes) would start to pop up more closer to home.
I think it’s a good thing. It’s why I love that Laytner’s Linen and Home opened in Park Slope…I can now get really nice sheets and pillows in my own neighborhood instead of getting them after work or on the weekend in Manhattan.
Neither is PS.
In fact, except for Soula, finding a decent pair of men’s shoes in Park Slope is like looking for a needle in a haystack.