'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.
Ooohh…go check out House of the Day…more Park Slope Luvin’!!!
yup, all 70,000 park slopers are clueless and defensive, 1:31.
good thing you weren’t around during the time of civil rights.
“Just for the record, 12:22…the first celebrity touted on this thread was Erykah Badu…from someone in Ft. Greene hoping to give the neighborhood some street cred.”
Erykah Badu was mentioned in the Brooklyn Paper’s story and the poster was mentioning what a lame call out it was of a B-list celeb. Once again you prove how incredibly self centered and clueless and defensive Park Slopers are on this blog.
Ft. Greene Park is still scary as hell.
People, people, please. You keep saying jealous when you mean envious. Learn the difference.
Of course Fort Greene is edgy, someone got killed over the weekend over six bags of crack. Now if that’s now edgy then I’m moving to Bed-Sty
Anyone who praises rising crime doesn’t deserve freedom of speech.
Park Slope crime is down in 2008.
It’s up in Bed Stuy, Williamsburg and East New York.
Don’t worry friends, crime in Brooklyn starting to get bad again. So, maybe this stuff will be reversed after all.