3rd Avenue is Starting to Happen
If 4th Avenue is the next Park Ave. (a laughable notion at this point), does that make 3rd Avenue the next Madison? Silly comparisons aside, 3rd Avenue in Gowanus is quietly transforming into an exciting retail/restaurant corridor. New businesses are joining neighborhood mainstays like the Glory Social Club and more recent ventures such as Canal…
If 4th Avenue is the next Park Ave. (a laughable notion at this point), does that make 3rd Avenue the next Madison? Silly comparisons aside, 3rd Avenue in Gowanus is quietly transforming into an exciting retail/restaurant corridor. New businesses are joining neighborhood mainstays like the Glory Social Club and more recent ventures such as Canal Bar, Le Chandelier Salon, Tri-State Chess, Bella Maria Pizza, and the light manufacturing/artists’ hub at the Old American Can Factory. Here’s a roundup (from south to north) of what’s recently hit and forthcoming:
Bar Tano at 9th St.: Italian restaurant from Slope’s Bar Toto owners; opens this week.
Brick Oven Barbeque on 6th St.: BBQ joint opening in old warehouse.
Whole Foods on 3rd St.: Should come to fruition…eventually.
Home Ec betw. Carroll & 1st St.: Owners of the Flirt boutiques teach sewing lessons.
Hotel at President St.: Construction under way for 4-story hotel.
Crooked Tail Café at President St.: New coffee/sandwich shop; will open in about a month.
Drugstore or Supermarket on Degraw St.: New owner is looking to lease big warehouse.
Skate park at Douglass St.: Local group wants Thomas Greene park revamped with skateboarder friendly features.
Check out the photo montage of the new places and coming attractions on the jump.
neandethals were artists. Have you seen those cave paintings? But then those darn homo sapiens moved in and gentrified everything.
11:43 and 4:30:
Obviously you are in the business of flipping property, not a person who moves into a neighborhood and cultivates it.
So you’ve been in Brooklyn for 12 years? WOW! I’ve been here for almost fifty. And I’ve seen the artists change over neighborhoods naturally.
So you think that your hard cash was the reason why hoods gentrified? Boy are you egotistical, simple, misguided and dumb.
All along I thoought there was a natural decades long progression of artists to gentification, personally observed and historically documented, but you have come along and showed me that I and everyone else was wrong… it was really YOU. You and your cold hard cash that made all the difference.
Waht an imbecile.
Cobble Hill has been in a gentrification state since the early 1980’s. And even befoire that it was NEVVER a bad depressed area. Cobble Hill does not fit a neighborhood to be used as an example of the issue being discussed or argued about. Sorry.
What are you going to tell me next, that Brooklyn Heights never had artists and that THAT gentrified recently?
There was a long hard progression that a lot of these neighborhoods went through. You’ve been here since 1995? What a joke for you to take credit for anything. I was here through the 70’s and 80’s and saw what these neighborhoods were like.
If your going to take credit for everything yourself, then at least get your facts straight.
i’m 11:43 and been in Brooklyn for almost 12 years. i personally bought and sold property in areas that no one else considered several times. sorry, but my hard cash had way way more to do with helping different hoods. i love williamsburg, but let’s face it, cobble hill, that NEVER had artists or galleries, has significantly higher psf rates than williamsburg.
also, the money has come pouring into williamsburg because of change in zoning laws meets 1 stop to the city.
restaurants and shops serve the people with money.
apparently most people in this thread.
If new york was filled with only people born here it would suck ass
Of course NYC attracts artists from all over the country. It always did. NYC was one of the few places alternative culture people could live and thrive in this country, form a community of like-minded people, and actually make a living on their art. Not just recently but anytime over the last 100 years. And before. Most artists in NYC came from other places.
Who doesn’t know that??
Anybody who can’t afford to buy something is stupid?
So by the same logic that you state an artist living in a bad neighborhood is too stupid to buy the place he is living in because he doesn’t have the money to do so would also apply to pretty much anyone else that doesn’t have enough money to do what he wants?
Are the starving children in Africa starving because they are stupid?
some New York associated and based artists that came from out of state:
Andy Warhol
Bob Dylan
John Lennon (70’s)
Patti Smith
etc etc etc
This thread has some very long posts. I’ll wait for the movie.
“artists are the people “real” new yorkers hate.
most are from out of state, they dress weird, listen to weird music, and pretty much the exact opposite of guidos”
Most artists that come from out of state and establish themseleves here as working artists have re-established themseleves as New Yorkers. real New Yorkers.
Andy Warhol was from out of state. When people all over the world think of Andy Warhol, they don’t think of Pittsburg, they think of New York,
And dressing weird and listing to wierd music is not a bad thing if you compare it to how horrible and boting and bland mainstream clothes and music have become.
And the guido comment doesn’t make any sense.
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