'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.
The way I see it, these things are all on a continuum.
There’s the antiseptic, white, affluent chicks of Park Slope.
Then there’s the somewhat racier, edgy, darker women of Ft. Greene.
Then there are the cum-belching gutter sluts of Crown Heights.
The decision is yours!
I find making money admirable, 11:54.
Unlike most of the dudes hangin out every single day in Ft. Greene who are above working and think that begging for change for 10 years is a better career option.
I’ll take motivation and drive over laziness any day.
11:48 ,do you really think people from other countries focus on this nonsense(“universally” lol). I’m sure they are having a big discussion in Peru about this right now. The fact that you get so worked up about this says more about you than the topic. It is so pathetic that all these brooklynites who are pretty much the same person but who root for different teams need their SLIGHT geographical distance in order to craft an identity.
Park Slope has ‘sNice now.
That’s good enough for me.
11:50 that is because some of the most annoying people in the world have lots of money, because they made it their ambition in life to make lots of money and will do whatever it takes to make lots of money. And those people end up in Park Slope. In the same way that the Park Slope cheerleaders on this board have no other purpose than to make lots of money on real estate and will trash every other neighborhood to do that.
The best reason to hate Ft. Greene – Target, Burlington Coat Factory, Pathmark and Chucky Cheese.
YeS MOVE to Park Slope. The Slope is awesome! No crime. Better prices. Better Food. Not so many ultra Cools. MOVE THERE!
Actually yesterday it was a Carroll Gardens booster who ruined that thread. Not one person was talking about it, when they jumped in and totally hijacked the rest of the thread.
i think both forte greene and park slope are beautiful and i don’t find one any cooler than the other. forte greene feels slightly claustrophobic to me – it’s a lot smaller and is both bound and pocked by totally normal, expected features of the built urban landscape but which i find off-putting in comparison to park slope. others may find that interesting and good way, and be totally bored by park slope. fine by me.