'Port Sleene'? Yeah, That Has Quite a Ring to It
Brooklyn Paper columnist Dana Rubinstein spies a new maybe-trend: The Slope-ification of Fort Greene. Evidence? More boutiques, more strollers, more white people, more coffee shops, more high-end grocers like Union Market coming. It’s a glass half-empty sorta thing (“Fort Greene has acquired a distinctly less edgy vibe. Stores cater to the arrived, rather than the…
Brooklyn Paper columnist Dana Rubinstein spies a new maybe-trend: The Slope-ification of Fort Greene. Evidence? More boutiques, more strollers, more white people, more coffee shops, more high-end grocers like Union Market coming. It’s a glass half-empty sorta thing (“Fort Greene has acquired a distinctly less edgy vibe. Stores cater to the arrived, rather than the up-and-coming, the mainstream, rather than the avant-garde.”) but hey, at least the water is designer (“there are far worse things than looking like Park Slope”). And of course, what trendspotting nabe article would be complete without a couple possible new names for the area: “Park Greene. Or Fort Slope. Or Port Sleene.” Wait a sec, has Fart Grope been spoken for?
My Copycat Neighbors [Brooklyn Paper]
Fort Greene photo by Daniel A. Norman; Slope photo by wallyg.
Mr. B, please do a story with the heading “Park Slope: Discuss” and nothing else. I wonder how many hits it would get.
2:08 — berlin was edgy and cool for an artificial heart beat about 6 years ago. It’s standard issue marketing. Next: Warsaw!
2:01 —
“the whole city is necessarily going to become more populated by white people”
Are you trying to scare us into provoking a reverse white flight (every non-white person fleeing the incoming hordes of asshole white children) so you can get your hands on my gorgeous brownstone?
nice try. Too bad my black husband and white me have ate your theory for breakfast 10 years ago.
if chicks from berlin say they like park slope, i’m in.
you haven’t been to berlin lately have you?
it’s “edgy” and “cool” in a way that new york wishes it could be.
every neighborhood in berlin is more “edgy” than the next.
Wait, all these people who are having periods shouldn’t be having babies, right?
And the husband and husband thing? How are they procreating?
K, have to say – brownstoner is so over…
I find the racist condemnation of any neighborhood deplorable. If this thread were instead about a neighborhood becoming undesirable because it was becoming more black, Brownstoner would be sued and liberals everywhere would be condemning the site.
The era of suburban sprawl is over, and being this nation is predominantly white – the whole city is necessarily going to become more populated by white people.
We all have to learn to live together, and accept the fact that the city will eventually come to mirror the region in terms of racial demographics.
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1:55…you just bitch slapped 1:53 right outta the park. LOVE IT!
Don’t mind the doobies. It’s the crack I have a problem with.
Crack is Whack!!!!
Show me the receipts!