'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.
Kelly McGillis was HOT back in the day. Nuthin wrong with a little love for the oldies but goodies.
It’s a drug den, but they are really nice dealers and good product, which they definitely do not have in Park Poop.
1:44 = Most ignorant poster on brownstoner award!!!
Kelly McGillis???? She’s like 60. I really thought the days had passed when she would be proof positive that one neighborhood trumped another. What, doesn’t Bea Arthur live in Park Slope?
“yup, all 70,000 park slopers are clueless and defensive, 1:31.”
And yet again you show how clueless you are. If you read my post it says how clueless and defensive Park Slopers on this blog are.
You think there are 70,000 Park Slopers on this blog? Nope is takes a special kind of real estate pumping, money grubbing Park Sloper to take that honor.
it’s fine during the day, 1:40.
not so at night.
it’s a drug den.
“Ft. Greene Park is still scary as hell.”
gimme a break. either you haven’t been there lately or your too much of a pussy to live NYC.
1:32 – I think it is actually 2 or 3 crazed park slopers who are responsible for the monomaniacal thread-intruding mentions of “top 10 neighborhood list”, “intact 19th century housing,” paul bettany et al, and now, Babeland.
It is impossible that slopers in general are that nuts.
“at least the water is designer”
huh?