'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.
10:34 said: “Yes, because Brooklyn was SO much more cool, when it was over-run by illiterate, goombahs and ghetto thugs who settled arguments with their fists, knives and guns.”
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Since WHEN was Brooklyn overrun by “illiterate goombahs” and “ghetto thugs?”
This is CLASSIC Manhattanite/ transplant racist talk. Brooklyn is the place where all the “ethnic groups live”; thefore it *was* all gang violence and thuggery and there was nothing of worth here.
Yeah, Brooklyn *always* sucked, what with its Prospect Park, its Botanical Garden, Canarsie Pier, Coney Island, its vast # of ethnic restaurants and establishments, its Promenade, Fulton Ferry State Park, the Brooklyn Museum, and all of its parades and festivals. It REALLY SUCKED living here in the ’80s and ’90s, having to attend the Labor Day parade over the years or actually seeing celebrities at the annual “Welcome Back Brooklyn festival.”
Moron.
12:13…MORE white people are displacing black than the other way around. Your one example does not say anything. Except perhaps that you are slightly ignorant.
I really hate the reductive quality to so many articles on gentrification. I’m a white woman who bought in Ft. Greene when it was less cool than it is now. I sold my apt last year to an African-American woman who makes twice as much money than I do. Yeah gentrification means people with more money but it’s not always along racial lines.
12:03 Thanks for sharing.
12:08…You’re just jealous that we DO have jobs…that we own 3 million dollar houses AND we can still play on brownstoner.
Don’t be so jealous. It isn’t very attractive on you.
I’d rather live in the same neighborhood as Maggie Gyllenhall, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Steve Buscemi, Kelly McGillis, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro, Charles Schumer, Johnathan Safran Foer, Paul Auster, etc than Erykah Badu. What the heck has she done lately??
Why don’t you all spend less time bitching & blogging about who’s neighborhood is cooler and spend more time making money so you can afford to leave. Get a *&Y%$ job.
Oh, and furthermore- Erykah Badu?! That’s the lamest callout ever.
“I live in ___ ; y’know the same neighborhood where Mason Reese and the former lead singer for Cutting Crew live!”
“I lived in Park Slope once but I kept on tripping over peoples egos so I moved to Clinton Hill”
I’d rather trip over egos than dead bodies.