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December 6, 2007
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Slopers haven’t been able to buy fantails or black moors at Brooklyn Aquarium for a while now, but soon they’ll be able to drink like fish at the old 9th Street storefront. The owners of Smith Street’s frat-acular Angry Wade's are opening a bar in the former pet-supply store space, which has been under renovation for a few months. The new business is going to have a pool table and a small kitchen, and it’s expected to open within the next few weeks. Think you’ll give it a shot? GMAP
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hell yeah!!
we seem to be on a roll with the park slope retail/restaurant/bar scene this past year.
literally every week something new is opening.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 2:33 PM
Park Slope really is becoming more and more like cobble hill/carroll gardens every day. it's cute.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 2:34 PM
I remember being at the pet store and witnessing an employee grab a little yellow and green conjure parrot and throw him back in the cage muttering..."stupic f*ck'in bird" The cage had a sign that said: Hand fed baby conjures.
I never went back to that place. Hope the bar has better karma.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 2:35 PM
the facade certainly does look like it's classing up that stretch of 9th, that's for sure...
2:34...your post is really funny. i mean...i know there have been a lot of businesses opening up 2nd stores in park slope, but truly...your post sounds so incredibly bitter.
you do realize that park slope gentrified way before cobble hill, don't you? no one moved to cobble hill 10 years ago. same thing with carroll gardens 20 years ago.
they are both wonderful neighborhoods, but please take a look at reality before posting such nonsense.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 2:48 PM
Wades is pretty crappy. All the atmosphere of a highway rest stop with service to match. The little bar on the corner of 9th and 6th ave is nice tho.
Posted by: Johnny at December 6, 2007 2:55 PM
when are we getting a new gay bar in the neighborhood is what i want to know?
excelsior is great, but it's also packed to the gills with all the new queens in the neighborhood.
you can barely move on a fri/sat in there.
i certainly think the neighborhood could support another....
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Once upon a time Bed Stuy was quite gentrified as well...
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:07 PM
Nobody moved to that part of the slope 20 years ago either. And 100 years ago Bed Stuy was a very expensive neighborhood. And 10,000 years ago all of Brooklyn was ice. But none of this has much bearing on todays market, does it?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:18 PM
yes, at one time all of these neighborhoods were thriving.
but after the demise of much of urban life in the 50's and 60's the resurgence of brownstone brooklyn was begun largely in park slope.
to say that park slope is becoming cobble hill and carroll gardens is just aimed at starting a fight.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:20 PM
I think it's spelled "frat-tacular," with two T's and a hyphen. "Fratacular" doesn't run out of my mouth right.
Posted by: vanburenproud at December 6, 2007 3:20 PM
It wasn't the greatest pet store but it was an old time neighborhood store. Our turtle hasn't had a good meal since it closed. I hate to see these small businesses disappear, we have lost a lot this year.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:24 PM
Cool...I sure hope the thugs from the projects frequent this place too!
Oh let's not forget the coke dealers...they love Angry Wade's too!
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:25 PM
no projects anywhere in the vicinity of this place, 3:25.
coke dealers? most of them work on wall street. you scared of them middle age white guys?
yeah, me too.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:31 PM
3:24...
In case you haven't noticed, between Getfreshnyc, this place, Brooklyn Bread and the fitness place, that's 4 new small businesses anounced opening in park slope just this week.
Take a walk up near Bergen and 5th, and you'll see about 10 others that have opened since last year. Oko, flight001, teddy, tapas place, bump, private stock, area bagels, soula shoe store...my god...i'm forgetting about 10 others.
Some fail. They close. Now new ones are moving in to replace them.
Nothing stays the same forever.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:34 PM
I miss the vast ice sheets that once covered the area. Sigh.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:37 PM
I'll tell you what, you get your Park Slope goons to stop posting on stories about other neighborhoods about how much more wonderful Park Slope is and perhaps you will experience the same on the Park Slope threads. Respect breeds respect.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:38 PM
3:31 PM You evidently know the area well. So perhaps you can tell me what's on the south west corner of 5th Ave & 9th Street (like about 100 yds from this new bar)?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:41 PM
What are you talking about. You can even see the projects in the background of the photo.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:43 PM
that's not the projects, 3:43.
that's the YMCA.
LOL.
the southwest corner of 5th and 9th is a dunkin donuts. southeast corner is the former eckert drug with a new york sports club over top. northwest corner is a bank and northeast corner is a deli.
any more questions?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:49 PM
3:31, I think 3:25 was referring to the clientele at Angry Wade's. I've seen all tose types and more at that dump.
BTW, how come they can sell food from a grill out front of AW's but the board of health is all over bartenders who use their fingers to pick up a lime and the red hook vendors?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:50 PM
3:43 - That's the YMCA, ya idjit!
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 3:52 PM
between 9th and 10th street and 4th and 5th avenue.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 4:08 PM
3:24 - that was the most disgusting pet store I have ever been in, it was dirty and smelly and the animals looked like they just got off the cattle cars at Auschwitz.
As for your Salmonella infested (probably illegal) pet turtle - he'd probably be better off without the crap they sold there and FYI that old neighborhood business is being replaced by another local business so you shouldn't let your protectionist panties get all in an uproar
How about adopting a real pet like a dog.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 4:24 PM
4:24 - What did that turtle ever do to you? Poor turtle.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 4:33 PM
Is Park Slope the only neighborhood in Brooklyn that has no housing projects within its borders?
Maybe Brooklyn Heights also?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 4:57 PM
4:57 Is Park Slope the only neighborhood in Brooklyn that has no housing projects within its borders?
Can you define it's borders? I mean no one else can.....(Apparently they now stretch from Flatbush to 34th street & PPW to 3rd Avenue)
But if you count the projects at between 9th & 10th street behend the 5th ave retail (right behind the Dunkin Donuts/NeerGuard and across from McDonalds) then even PS (shock horror) has them too!
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:05 PM
Any truth to the the rumor that those "projects" are being converted to "luxury" apartments?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:13 PM
5:05--so is that what that building is? It's low-income housing? I never knew that.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:19 PM
Building between 9th and 10th just west of 5th Avenue is a Mitchel Lama middle income "project"
Marion
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:21 PM
I walked by when they were doing construction and was briefly shown around the inside, and all I can say is this place is going to be beautiful - it'll really add some life to this neighborhood and be a great place to chill with a beer and a bite! If the burgers here are as good as the beer-brats Wade has put out at the smith St. fair, this place is going to be awesome!
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:25 PM
that's a Mitchell-Lama building which is affordable housing for middle income residents, it is not NYCHA which run the "projects".
You can read about Mitchell-Lama here: http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ohm/progs/mitchlam/ohmprgmi.htm
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:27 PM
so the answer to the question...is there housing projects in park slope...
no.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:36 PM
Re M/L - If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck then.....
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:37 PM
As hard as it is for you to accept that a tall brick building with nondescript architecture containing many minority residents is NOT a project. The building you mention, isnt wasnt and never was "projects" - it is a privately owned Mitchell-Lama building. Originally owned by the Lefrak Organization and more recently by Laurence Gluck (Stellar Management).
So yes 5:05, even within the ridiculous borders you cite - Park Slope has NO PROJECTS.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:43 PM
Am I not turtle enough for your turtle club?
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 5:46 PM
It sure looks like a project to me.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 6:23 PM
You people are ridiculous. I can't believe that you are trying to spin that ugly building filled with low income tenants as something other than a project. What ever it is, it sure lowers the value of anything near it, I can tell you that much for sure.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 6:27 PM
actually that bldg has applied to get out of the Mitchell Lama program and to charge market rates.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 6:37 PM
So back to the matter at hand - will we be able to get a good bag of blow at this place?
Heard Wade always keeps the good stuff for himself, that's why the wife dumped him.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 8:42 PM
"you do realize that park slope gentrified way before cobble hill, don't you? no one moved to cobble hill 10 years ago."
FWIW the "Brownstone Revival" in Brooklyn started in the mid-50s when house-hunters who were priced out of Brooklyn Heights crossed Atlantic Avenue to look in Cobble Hill.Park Slope started to gentrify a few years later.
I don't have any ax to grind hear-I don't live in either neighborhood, but gentrification in Brownstone Brooklyn started before many readers of this blog were born.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at December 6, 2007 9:36 PM
cool. cobble hill is great.
so is park slope.
we're lucky to live out here.
Posted by: guest at December 6, 2007 10:09 PM
Yes and when there is a huge shortage of low income housing in this city, I doubt converting to market rate housing will be an easy task. Just take it like a good realtor or homeowner and accept that you have a project in your neighborhood. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
Posted by: guest at December 7, 2007 9:08 AM
Is Wade hot? if you find Peter from the Family Guy good looking your bound to be attracted to him.
Posted by: guest at December 7, 2007 10:13 AM
I woudln't exactly call one buidling a "Project" and so what if it contains low or middle income housing. Oh my god!
Posted by: guest at December 7, 2007 4:21 PM
park dope rocks.
Posted by: guest at December 7, 2007 4:36 PM
Wade doing blow is a joke. As a very good friend of Melissa and Wade to this day, I can tell you for a fact that that is far from their scene. Being a charitable and genuine guy, Wade is the type of person that any neigborhood should be proud to embrace with open arms.
Posted by: guest at December 7, 2007 11:48 PM
I would agree with the above comment at 11:48 PM. Angry Wade's is neither a hang-out for coke dealers nor does it have a "rest stop" atmosphere.
The bar is full of beautiful hand-carved wood, there are plenty of friendly and attractive staff and Wade is a generous person and smart business owner.
Most of the comments here seem to come from people who walk by and judge the entire bar by the "look" of its clientele. These appear to be the same people who think that the YMCA, a gym, is the "projects" behind the photo.
I would strongly recommend going to Angry Wade's. I've always had a wonderful time there.
Posted by: guest at December 11, 2007 6:28 PM
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