'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.
Husband and Husband? I don’t get it.
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.
Take that into consideration become you become so horrified you need a brown bag to make it through.
jealous, 12:22?
As an ocassional visitor to both neighborhoods, I find them quite different.
Fort Greene is lovely of course but it is still rough around the edges. Even the most beautiful blocks often contain a couple of decrepit houses or houses painted bright blue or the like.
Park Slope on the other hand, at least the area that I consider to be Park Slope, has few rough edges. Row upon row of perfect buildings perfectly maintained. It doesn’t look like New York City (home of rent control and desperate tenants).
Fort Greene definitely looks more like New York, unruly and hap-hazard.
12:20. I am the husband. And my husband did not buy anything for me.
Seems your powers of percetion would not even cut it in the telemarkeing field.
12:11 – you are truly pathetic. I simply CANNOT believe that you just rolled out your roster of PS celebrities. every time i think slopers can’t fall any lower, they stump me once again.
The What is the perfect example of the old Brooklyn that I don’t find cool at all.
He’s illiterate, he’s angry, he hates anything new and he’s so pessimistic about the world that it shows in everything he says on here.
I’m glad the new Brooklyn will not have a place for him in years to come.
Brooklyn in the 80’s was one of the most racist places on the planet, 12:17. You are dellusional.
12:12 I do own, and I am sure your husband bought your 3 million dollar brownstone for you. Your intellect is that of a tele-marketer.
Brownstone, I don’t get the Opal Estates banner ad you are hosting.
“Top Reasons to Leave Brooklyn”? Isn’t this blog about the ‘joys’ of Brooklyn Brownstone life especially if you live in Park Slope, Fort Green, or Carrol Gardens?