Closing Bell: Is Park Slope Dead?
Yesterday the New Yorker published a short piece on the death of Slope music venue Southpaw, titled “Park Slope is Dead.” The venue will be replaced by a “children’s enrichment center.” Co-owner of Southpaw Matt Roff called the closing a part of “the nature of the beast,” saying, “This is just how it goes.” On…
Yesterday the New Yorker published a short piece on the death of Slope music venue Southpaw, titled “Park Slope is Dead.” The venue will be replaced by a “children’s enrichment center.” Co-owner of Southpaw Matt Roff called the closing a part of “the nature of the beast,” saying, “This is just how it goes.” On a related note, the Park Slope Civic Council compiled a retail roundup for 2011, and it turns out more than 50 small businesses closed in the neighborhood over the last 12 months, including old-timers like Aunt Suzie’s and Leaf and Bean. The vacancy rate on Flatbush Avenue also grew to 12% as rents rose in anticipation of the Barclays Center, although the Flatbush Avenue BID is working with property owners to fill vacancies and hopes to have a 6% vacancy rate or less by the end of 2012.
Park Slope is Dead [New Yorker]
The State of Shopping Local [PSCC]
Photo of Southpaw by ekonon
A large stretch of 5th Avenue has turned into a pretty great restaurant row. Tons of options, many of them cheap. 7th Ave. seemed to die just as 5th was making a resurgence. Would love to have a fraction of the dining (and food market) options in any of the neighborhoods I’ve been able to afford to live in in Brooklyn.