'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.
Who said PS isn’t gritty? Clearly that person never witnessed two Park Stepford moms jockeying for position at the stroller check-in at Puppet Works!
12:59…i agree with you.
it is interesting. i think kids who grow up in park slope are lucky, actually.
if i ever have one, i would like to raise him/her there as well. i think it’s a great place.
much better than the burbs where i was raised…that’s for darn sure.
12:48 – I love your comment, but I really don’t think park slope kids will be bragging about a gritty upbringing. I grew up in Manhattan in 70s and 80s and no one was saying park slope and brooklyn heights were gritty even back then – they were just perceived as hopelessly out of it. People I know who grew up in those neighbs in those days – which were arguably substantially more gritty – NEVER describe their upbringing as gritty (see the Squid and the Whale for example). those neighbs were always VERY bourgeois. it was actually MUCH grittier growing up in many parts of manhattan. So I hardly think our children (though I live in CG not PS) are going to make that claim. Now kids in bed stuy or clinton hill – they may indulge in a little gritty factor boast.
The kids in Park Slope will grow up to hate their parents.
“the ‘ruling class’ of PS, the white, affluent breeders”
Replace “PS” with “Earth” and your post will be accurate.
12:48 here… no, nothing wrong with it at all. I was not out to bash Park Slope. I just find it all interesting from a sociological perspective.
12:48…your post just made every parent in New York City want to live in Park Slope.
I see nothing wrong with wanting to raise a kid in the most idyllic setting that NYC affords.
lipstick
There are some hot liptick lezbos in the slope.