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September 26, 2007
Streetlevel: What’s In With the Park Slope Crowd?
Has 5th Avenue evolved past retail? A couple weeks ago we noted that a sign hanging on the window of the emptied-out copy shop between Park and Prospect was soliciting opinions from passersby about what type of retail they did and didn't want to see in the storefront. (The streets have spoken: No more "prohibitively expensive women's clothing.") That sign—purportedly courtesy of a group called "CVETCH," or the “Committee to Verify Everything That's Coming Here"—got ripped down a few days later, but now there's a replacement in the same spot. This one asks for opinions about "What kinds of art we would like to see here." So far, the Slope is calling for "performance" art and “chainsaw sculpture," but it's not interested in welcoming "DJs" or "accordions." The new survey claims to be the work of a group called "the Crowd, formerly known as CVETCH." We have no idea who’s behind these interactive signs, but we can’t wait to see what comes next. And, hey, what's with with the anti-accordion faction?
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we already have an accordian player in park slope. he hangs out on 7th avenue.
i was wondering what this sign was all about when i walked past it last night.
btw, there is a sign a few doors away about a new jamaican or carribean restaurant opening as well.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 2:26 PM
Hasn't that Jamaican place has been "coming soon" for close to a year now, if not longer?
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 2:30 PM
oh, i don't know.
i only saw it for the 1st time last night.
could be.
there's another new place i walked by last night that looks promising...it's called organic heights on bergen right off 5th...painted a bright (oko) green
looks to be sandwiches, soups, teas, etc.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 2:32 PM
park slope is hilarious
also all the jamacian you need is in prospect heights
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 2:52 PM
I want a club for freelancers so I don't have to put up with wifi coffee shops.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 3:17 PM
Yea jamaicanin rest. open soon. like never because they smoke too mux Ganja.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 3:17 PM
They don't call it Park Dope for nuthin.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 3:22 PM
One might think that a group called CVETCH would be into accordions. Go figure....
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 3:29 PM
When do we get a Club Your Own Seal restaurant?
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 4:05 PM
Right after we get the first Park Slope Spank your child playdate center.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 4:08 PM
not surprising from people who want to work in a supermarket, so they can be part of a food coop. they all still have their Kerry bumper stickers on their subaru's or honda civic's or whatever.
the fact that any one considers the clothing "expensive" in those 5th avenue boutiques just goes to show what a bunch of losers live there.
hilarious.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 4:21 PM
You don't consider $150 jeans expensive?
Posted by: Park Sloper at September 26, 2007 4:24 PM
4:21 is the same bitter soul who yesterday said bed stuy was nicer than park slope.
leave her to her ranting.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 4:27 PM
4:21 is a millionaire. In Second Life.
In real life not so much.
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 4:28 PM
i'm 4.21 nope no bud stuy, and nope don't think 150 for jeans is expensive
and you wish i wasn't a millionaire! ha ha ha
Posted by: guest at September 26, 2007 9:35 PM
i'm w/ 421 on the coop. cant they just hire some people?
Posted by: slick at September 27, 2007 2:09 AM
They could, but then the prices would go up. That's the point: making healthy food affordable. If you don't want to work for it, then just go somewhere else and stfu about it.
Posted by: Drew at September 27, 2007 8:23 AM
On the surface it is funny and I like its interactiveness. When I was in college many years ago- different departments would post something like this- to see which classes were wanted. As you can imagine, few took it seroiusly- Women and Granola in a Nuclear Age.
I have to laugh that it is called CVETCH. The same thing could be done with less of a, well, Slopian attitude. It could be positive. No big surprise.
Posted by: guest at September 27, 2007 9:05 AM
Is 5th Ave really Park Slope? There is no park and there is no slope. Seriously, it is 4 long avenues for the park.
Posted by: guest at September 27, 2007 11:12 AM
Where are the batteries in Battery Park City?
West End Avenue 4 long blocks to Central Park, but they still call it the upper west side (of central park, which the name refers to).
What about 1st Avenue, East End?
Where are the heights in Prospect Heights or Crown Heights? I don't see any, so they can't be named that.
I don't see more gardens in Carrol Gardens than other neighbrhoods. How can it be called that?
You win for most idiotic post ever.
Posted by: guest at September 27, 2007 11:31 AM
About the clothing prices in Park Slope on 5th Avenue, just take a look where he shoppers are. Beacon's Closet with its low priced used clothing has WAY more young women shopping in it any day of the week, than the pricey boutiques across the street. I was in Beacons Closet this weekend and literally couldn't move there were so many people.
Posted by: guest at September 27, 2007 1:04 PM
I wish Beacon's Closet would find a larger space in Park Slope.
I wonder if they do well enough to make it worth their while.
It is my favorite store in Park Slope.
The Beacon's Closet in Williamsburg is terrific and much larger, but I don't particularly enjoy going to Williamsburg.
Posted by: guest at September 27, 2007 1:12 PM
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